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Dmstifik8ion
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Ignoring the intense heat and pressure of subterranean environments, the difficulties of constructing a hole under such conditions, drag and friction, etc:
Only a hole through the axis of rotation will provide a straight trajectory or one the passes through the exact center of a spinning planet, however;
Would the trajectory (determined entirely by the planets gravity and surface rotational momentum alone) of an object released at any point on the surface of a rotating planet bring it invariably to rendezvous with the opposite (half way around) side of the sphere?
In other words:
If a hole of suitable size to permit my passage suddenly opened up beneath me, would I travel to the opposite side of the Earth?
Only a hole through the axis of rotation will provide a straight trajectory or one the passes through the exact center of a spinning planet, however;
Would the trajectory (determined entirely by the planets gravity and surface rotational momentum alone) of an object released at any point on the surface of a rotating planet bring it invariably to rendezvous with the opposite (half way around) side of the sphere?
In other words:
If a hole of suitable size to permit my passage suddenly opened up beneath me, would I travel to the opposite side of the Earth?
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