Would you fall all the way through a theoretical hole in the earth?
535733
no. you would accelerate to the centre then decelerate to almost the other side. then repeat traveling a bit less each time till you finally come to rest in the middle.
1141107
This is the process that your body, or any other object would experience when falling into a black hole.  You would be stretched out into a stream of atoms, one atom wide, falling towards the centre.  This is because under the tremendous gravitational gradient, the force pulling on your feet would be a lot stronger than the force pulling on your head, and you would also be squashed into a thin strand by gravity pulling both sides of your body towards a single point below the centre of your body.  An excellent and original science project if you were looking for one.
1110006
if you DIDN'T include the SCORCHING MAGMA and the EXTREME VELOCITIES EXHIBITED BY FALLING THROUGH THE EARTH and also the CHANCE THERE IS WATER ON THE OTHER SIDE THAT WOULD EMPTY INTO THE HOLE, you would go down easy, but then it would become increasingly hard to climb out of the hole once you are at the center. also, gravity will be stronger at the middle and close to it. here is a diagram. gravitational force is measured as 1 weakest and 4 second strongest, then () as the center. [ and ] are the crust\nweeeeeeeeeeeeeee    center of earth!!!!  \n[ 1       2        3           4             ()                 4        3        2        1 ]\n\nbasically, closer to the center of the earth, greater gravitational force. you could get crushed by the gravity in the center anyway and there would be not enough oxygen to breathe for the extension of the trip. revisiting the make a hole to china and maybe end up in a ocean idea, here is a link.\n\nhttp://www.digholes.com/\n\nthis is kind of cool. double click where you are digging from, then it will show where on earth you would end up. if you dug from china straight down, you would end up in south america. try it.
184304
The 2nd answer is the more popular belief, keep in mind these are just theros, as no one to this day has been to the center of the earth.  So fear not, you can dig that hole in your back yard without fear of falling thru.
468557
No. It would not be possible to fall off the earth from anywhere, in fact, because of the force of gravity. Gravity would always pull us back to the earth.  \n\nBesides, there are parameters such as escape velocity, etc. which are needed for a body to leave the atmosphere and reach space.
195816
actually scientist have a lot of theoretical knowledge of black holes. \n\nYou would fall until you were at the center(in a finite amount of time from your frame of reference), at which point you would be compressed almost to nothing. An outside observer would still be able to see you though for a while and things would appear stretched.  try wikipedia's entry on black holes. http://answers.com/black_hole\n\nRepeat? Where's the original?
308538
All things are attracted to the center of the earth regardless of their orientation to it.So you could dig "down" into the earth but once you passed through the center you would start digging "up" because gravity would be pulling you back to the center which is behind and "below" you
327886
you would slowly melt in a horrible flaming death. but no, gravity would push you back down for ANOTHER horrible flaming death. yay.
1123314
yes if it was straight everyone would fall down the side
358053
Intense gravity. It just sucks everything nearby up. If you went into a black hole gravity would be stronger at your feet than at your head. You sould be stretched out like a piece of spaghetti and broken in two. Then the same thing would happen to the pieces of you. The bottom of the pieces would break off untill you're just a bunch of little tiny pieces.
61784
That's an interesting qts. I assume that you wish to invlove pure physics in this qts. Forget all the heat at the core of the earth and also air resistance.\nConsider pure gravitation theory.\n\nIf say the fellow who fell in the hole has mass m\n\nThen force of gravity exerted by the earth is :\n\n  F = GMm/(r*r) ..... Where G - universal gravitation constant\n\n                            M - Mass of the earth\n                            r - distance between earth and body of mass m\n\n          acceleration due to gravity\n            = (1-h/R)g   .... where h is distance of body beneath the earth's surface and g is acceleration due to gravity at the surface of the earth.\n\nSo as the body comes closer to the core of the earth, h tends to R.\nSo the acceleration of the body goes on decreasing very much. So, body may not actually hover, since his velocity will be constant the instant it is at the core.
1134115
Yes, you are harmed. You're not falling 10 feet from the door that you just 'jumped' out of. You've been falling since you left the cliff. The only difference is that when you die, it won't be among the ruins of a demolished house.\n\nBTW, you can't jump from the house in the first place. The house is falling and you are falling with it. Jumping requires standing. You and the house are in free-fall. You may be able to guide yourself along the walls using your hands, much like the astronauts do when in a zero-g environment. It's more likely though that you'll be screaming and soiling yourself.
1026062
you would probably suffocate from the high altitute b-cuz there isnt much oxygen up there.
383444
No.  There's nowhere near enough pressure.  You need to go down about 50 meters before the bends can hit you upon surfacing.  Depending on your physicall fitness, you may even be able to go deeper.
237546
Because with any other shape the manhole cover could fall through the hole.
246486
I'm sure physicists around the world ponder these questions on a daily basis.\nFirstly,astronomers believe that there is a super-massive balck hole at the center of our galaxy, the Milky wave. Through spectrometric measurements, they have shown that the large amounts of gamma rays emitting from it are due to the huge chunks of nearby stars and matter that it sucks in each second. It is believed that this matter is absorbed by the black hole and compressed into nothingness. However, some believe that some of this matter (including people) could be transported through some sort of tunnel into another part of space\n\n2. No one knows for sure if wormholes exist. But if they do, it could provide a way to travel faster than the speed of light like in star trek or other shows, the so called "hyperspace".\n\n3. Yes, if you dug through the earth, you'd emerge into space, with nothing under your feet. If you were to travel in such a "hollowed-out" tunnel, as you approach the center of the earth, the gravity would gradually decrease until it would be zero at the exact center. If you drop a ball into this tunnel, it would oscillate forever, assuming no air is present, like a spring with simple harmonic motion since the gravity is a function of depth.
1165028
Your question is theoretical and therefore all answers you receive will be theoretical.  I would think that even if it were for a split second, you would feel some kind of pain.  Of course, if you're floating around in space unprotected, you'd be dead before you got there.