If you drop an object through a hole in the Earth stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole, it would oscillate back and forth about 17 times per daypic.twitter.com/crCfBFK2qp
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Assumptions: •No air resistance •Earth is a perfect sphere w/ uniform mass density •Such a hole doesn't collapse under gravity
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Replying to @InertialObservr
- object doesn't vaporize via temperature of the core
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Replying to @Billistician @InertialObservr
other than the fact that if the temperature wasn't uniform you wouldn't have uniform density I guess
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Replying to @Billistician
I never said what kind of object it was heh
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