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The gravity gradually gets less and less as you approach the center of the earth (or any other planet), so my guess is that it would slow down more and more as it approached the core, coming to a complete halt and hovering undisturbed at the center
 
i see what you mean about gravity getting smaller as you get closer to the centre of the earth but just because gravity decreases doesnt mean you will slow down (disregarding air resistance, which would slow you down unless your tunnel is a vacuum). if gravity became negative, you would slow down. so if gravity becomes less and less and then eventually zero @ centre, you still have all the speed built up from the initial freefall. once you fly past centre, the gravity acts in the opposite direction (ie, it becomes negative) and you slow down, go back to centre, etc.

but i retract what i say about the force of gravity crushing you in the middle, since there is no force of gravity in the middle. so you just float there once you stop flying back and forth.
 
That's a good point that I hadn't really considered. I was thinking that the lessened force of gravity would cause the ball to decelerate, when it would actually cause it to simply accelerate at a decreasing rate. Weird. Physics.
 
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mr. blonde (vic vega) from reservoir dogs is brothers with vince vega from pulp fiction
 
Just to clear up a few things, the force of gravity exerted on you does not "decrease". It changes its origin. Say if you were 2 miles under the crust, falling towards the middle, you would have the 2 miles of rock above you exerting a force of gravity up, the rock to the left and right exerting a force of gravity to the left and right, and the rest of the earth as a force down. When you get close to the center, say 99% of the way, a little more than half the gravity would be pulling down and half would be pulling up, as well as half to the left and right. When you are at the true center, gravity is pulling equally on you in every direction.

And if there was no air resistance, think about this, you would fly past the center and go to the exact height from which you fell from on the other side. So, lets make a hole through the moon and jump through.
 
Ive heard that all of quentin tarantino's films take place in the same fictional universe, but i haven't looked into it yet. sounds plausible though
 
that could be awesome.... imagine the team ups.... the bride and clooney in dusk till dawn killing vampires? epic (assuming written by counts?)
 
^yeah maybe all the guys in inglorious basterds are supposed to be the grandfathers of the people in reservoir dogs/pulp fiction, etc.
 
If there were to be a camera created with megapixels that out number the amount in your eye you cant see those extra megapixels because your eyes arent capable
 
Actually not true :p are we going to go back to the space stuff again?

People need to stop thinking of black holes as holes. They are not holes at all! They are points. Think of them as marbles that have the mass of our galaxy. But since their mass is so great, they cannot support a size, the gravity would be too great that the outside of the marble would always be falling back to the center.

So instead it's just an infinitesimally small point!

So basically if one marble that had a mass of 1,000,000,000,000 suns, swallowed a smaller marble that only had the mass of 999,999,999,999 suns, you'd just end up with a bigger marble.

Supermassive black holes (such as ones at the center of galaxies) swallow lesser black holes all the time. It's just as regular as any of the other crazy wild shit that happens in our universe. Shit people cannot even begin to fathom.

But yet, us humans think we are so freaking big with our guns and our politics and our inventions. If a black hole wanted to swallow us, that black hole don't give no fucks. We won't have a nuke big enough.

I know how I want civilization to end though; from a rogue star. Essentially when supermassive things like black holes (which are not stationary) come into the path of star clusters, it tends to fuck their day up. With all the tidal forces and the immense gravity, it is relatively easy for one to shoot out. The mass of the black hole would just whip it around, like a sling shot.

That star (may 100 times the mass of our own) would just go hurdling through space at thousands and thousands of miles per hour. With no destination in mind it could come right into our solar system and burn us all to pieces. But I will have already skied enough days to not sweat it (:
 
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<p>That is probably the best way to go. I always thought a gamma ray burst would be a better option, but not quite.</p></p>
 
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