Eli5 – Why is it so difficult to dig to the Earth’s core?

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The most central part of the Earth’s interior would require drilling approximately which is 6,370 kilometers (20,898,950 ft)

The deepest drilling ever conducted in world history is only 12 kilometers (39370,1 ft)

Why is so hard and and is the effort worth it? Or we only will find more rocks ?

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Even besides all the insane issues with digging to the core, can you imagine even digging horizontally through mountain for 4000 miles?!? That way further than crossing the entire United States

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