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Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if you drill a hole into the earth's s

 
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Dec15-12, 12:03 PM   #18
 

Have you ever asked yourself what would happen if you drill a hole into the earth's s


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The temperature would be above the critical temperature for both oxygen and nitrogen, so the air could not be liquified no matter how high the pressure got.
Right....depending on what assumptions we make (about the temperature).
Dec15-12, 12:16 PM   #19
 
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The gravity component is an excellent calculus problem.....
There's a bit of thermo...some fluid mechanics...a bunch of free body diagrams...several chapters of a good physics book...and a lot of educated guesses.
This is a 3 pizza problem.
I'm going to Dominos.
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