April 11, 2008
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Suppose there was a hole that went all the way through the earth. The question is, if you fell into it, when would you stop falling? In the middle? On the other side? How far into the air on the other side? If you’re suspended in the middle, do you stay exactly in the middle, or do you fall to the ground on one side? What do you think? Also, if you would be so kind, please suspend all melting-relating objections.
People will listen to me while I’m talking. You know, they’ll give me a nice firm handshake, look me in the eye. And if I do something right they’ll say ‘Good job.’ But that’s not what I want. What do I want? I want respect.
I wonder if our lives were taped using movie quality film, would it look like we were acting? Would we be convincing or would our interactions, compared to movies, seem fake?
I feel like whenever I am in a room with no windows for a lengthy period of time, I have to believe that the outside still exists. I just whisper anxiously to myself, “Please still be there, please still be there…”
Farewell fellow xangans! Thanks for glancing.
Comments (9)
n.p. Also, have you had previous issues with the concept of concrete reality?
wait where are you going? Outside?
I think at time time in the middle you would cease to stop falling.
…so……do you wait until midnight before you come up with this stuff?
You would yo-yo back and forth on a regularly decreasing oscilation with a pitch no more than the length of the original dive from the surface to the center of the earth. When you came towards the other side, assuming the tunnels were of the same length, you would be significantly short of the edge due to air friction. Given that in a fall of that length the human body would hit terminal velocity, it would begin the oscillation short because you would be falling essentially no further than it too to obtain terminal velocity. As air friction continued to slow you down the oscillations would get less and less pronounced until they became virtually undetectable. This is of course assuming that there is air in this tunnel and that you don’t hit the sides at any point.
Are you leaving?
N says if my life was a movie is would a B movie that becomes a cult classic and nerds would quote it for years to come.
I’m not sure if that’s a compliment or not….. ~ L
Hi cuz!
Well, you would burn up before you hit the middle because it gets kinda toasty in that molten core!
But ultimately you would float in the middle because it is the center of gravity of this spinning orb of ours.
@Courtney -
LOL…I told you no melting-related objections!!
i like to think when you step outside your door, you’ve entered an alternate demension. my kitties think that.
and please put on a clean shirt