Would You Float or Stretch in a Hollow Sphere at Earth's Center?

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Doc Al said:
You should be able to find it discussed in most classical mechanics books (or calculus books, for that matter). Here's a site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem"

Thank you very much
 
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