Is Gravity Absent at the Earth's Core?

NewToThis · Jul 29, 2016

So if you could pinpoint the Earth's most central atom would gravity stop there?

Liam Lau · Jul 29, 2016

I understand what you intend to mean, in the sense that the sum of all the forces on that particle/ atom equals 0. Therefore it doesn't experience any gravitational effects; but I don't quite understand what do you mean by stopping there, since the force of gravity acts on every mass on every other mass in the universe. It doesn't stop

Is Gravity Absent at the Earth's Core?

Discussion

High School Buoyancy and gravity

Graduate A rotating frame equation for the "carousel experiment"

Undergrad Chua's oscillator circuit -- Intuitive picture

Undergrad Difficulties in Measuring the Contact Angle of a Sessile Droplet

High School Does shelf support length affect stability when weight is applied at the tip?

Insights Revisiting the Velocity-Time Function

Insights Remote Operated Gate Control System

Insights AI Enriched Problem Solving

Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box

Insights Why Entangled Photon-Polarization Qubits Violate Bell’s Inequality

Insights Quantum Entanglement is a Kinematic Fact, not a Dynamical Effect

Is Gravity Absent at the Earth's Core?

Discussion

Similar threads

High School Why isn't the Earth's core a gas?

Graduate What Would Happen if Earth's Core Suddenly Disappeared?

Undergrad What would happen if Earth's core where moved? (Gravity)

Calculating Energy Ratios: Moving Mass to and from Earth's Core

High School Digging a hole through Earth's mantle, avoiding the core

High School Energy needed to stop the Earth's inner core ---and its effects?

Undergrad Gravitational Effects on Age of Earth's Core

Undergrad Does Earth's core gravity cancel out, and is density the real cause of time dilation?

Graduate Is the Earth's core a potential high-temperature superconductor?

Is There More Uranium in Earth's Core Than We Thought?