[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
I think your question is “Since Earth is a sphere…”. If you were able to dig through it and not be crushed by pressure and heat, you would be digging “down” towards the center and then “up” away from the center. You would of course exit the hole head first; this is in no way affected by the shape of the earth.
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