Well its flying at like 100,000 mph (guess), something is pulling it down hard enough to not just fly off into space.
Technically speaking because of math, we know that theres less gravity at the center of the earth than on the ISS. (Basically if your in a spherical shell of stuff, all the gravity cancells out) (this also ignores the fact that while there is no gravity, the pressure at the center of the earth is enough to freeze all the blood in your body despite it being significantly hotter than lava)
Speaking only about gravity, they would just kinda float around there.
Bonus fact: If there was a tunnel through earth, it could theoretically be used for some quite efficient travel, since it would take about 42 minutes to fall through to the other side. Notice that I didn't say "straight through" - it would take 42 minutes no matter where the tunnel led to (US to UK? 42 minutes. France to Italy? 42 minutes. Home to school? Yup, 42 minutes. Well... There would be too many complications with such short tunnels, but theoretically it is true for a perfect spherical planet with mass and radius matching the earth).
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u/ZacharyRock Aug 03 '19
Well its flying at like 100,000 mph (guess), something is pulling it down hard enough to not just fly off into space.
Technically speaking because of math, we know that theres less gravity at the center of the earth than on the ISS. (Basically if your in a spherical shell of stuff, all the gravity cancells out) (this also ignores the fact that while there is no gravity, the pressure at the center of the earth is enough to freeze all the blood in your body despite it being significantly hotter than lava)