Eli5 if there was a hole from one side to the other side of the earth, and you don’t have to deal with the heat are you going one side in other side out or are you going to be stuck in the middle due to gravity?

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Eli5 if there was a hole from one side to the other side of the earth, and you don’t have to deal with the heat are you going one side in other side out or are you going to be stuck in the middle due to gravity?

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Because earth has atmosphere, you will go through air resistance and eventually you will stop in the middle. But if you do it in the moon, given no resistance at all, you will fall, come on the other side, fall again, come on the other side, and then fall again like that back and forth indefinitely.

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