Ask Neil Anything: Are you falling or floating if you dig a hole through Earth and jump in?

Are you falling or floating if you dig a hole through to the other side of the Earth and jump in?

Post doctoral researcher in space domain awareness, Adam Batten, says it’s a classic first-year physics question.

“Lets assume you don’t die in the many different ways you can die by falling into the earth,” he told Neil Mitchell.

Press PLAY to hear what happens if you fall through the earth

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