[ELI5] If Earth is a sphere, which way would we be standing if we dug straight down?
Which way would you end up in? I wanna know because if you have ever looked at a ball, we know that if you went straight through it. We’d basically be upside down. So does that mean it applies if we do the same with Earth? If you don’t understand what I mean, there is a part from the game Plants vs Zombies where you can go to your achievements, when you scroll all the way to the bottom, you end up upside down but the zombies are standing up perfectly fine.
In: Earth Science
At the center you wouldn’t be standing; you would float. You can’t stand anywhere as such. There is no upside down because there is no down or up. There is only in or out — from the center. Gravity is the pull from the center. Once you get to the center, the pull stops. It’s like the other post that mentions the north pole. Compases don’t work well at the poles for the same reason, that the pull is very low in the way the compass needs for it to be used properly. Gravity needs a mass to be attracted to. When you’re the biggest mass in the neighborhood, you float.
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