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How much does the mass at the very centre of the earth weigh?.

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Posted - January 21, 2020
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  • 5391
    Not much, as I’d be incinerated. 
      January 21, 2020 5:46 PM MST
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  • 44603
    Dang it...I SAID IF YOU SURVIVED. Play along with it. I'll change the question.
      January 21, 2020 5:51 PM MST
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  • 23576


    I don't know - - but if that mass is black and sounds like this music, that black mass is worth its weight in gold!
    :)




    Image result for The Omen Jerry Goldsmith A Black Mass

      January 21, 2020 6:24 PM MST
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  • 5391

    Ok, I’ll take on your original question seriously this time. 

    To actually BE at the very center of the earth suggests a hollowed-out space (albeit literally hotter than hell), like the inside of a shell. The forces of earth’s gravity would then draw from every direction in equal measure; so as long as we remain exactly equidistant from the inner “walls” of the shell, we’d be essentially weightless (theoretically). Or, our soft fleshy bodies might be torn apart by the powerful gravity.

    If any extremity drew closer to any ”wall” of the space, the more we could be pulled toward it. So we might be squashed against the nearest “wall”. (and THEN incinerated) 

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at January 23, 2020 11:03 AM MST
      January 21, 2020 6:25 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Melville once said of Moby Dick, "I have written a wicked book."

    In like fashion, you may now claim to have "asked a wicked question."
      January 21, 2020 6:39 PM MST
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  • 44603
    Thank you.
      January 22, 2020 10:56 AM MST
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  • 2836
    There is no mass at the center of a plane. It's equally distributed.



      January 21, 2020 6:56 PM MST
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  • 46117
    It would not be floating like that.  It would be moving every which way but loose.  Like a demented frisbee
      January 23, 2020 10:41 AM MST
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  • 2836
    Well, if it were spinning, centrifugal force would disperse water away from the center towards the outer edges making them heavier and thus, *sigh* the center lighter.
      January 23, 2020 11:02 AM MST
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  • Golly gee willikers, Mr. Goat.  You're so smart.  I love it when you talk pseudo-science.
      January 23, 2020 11:09 AM MST
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  • 46117
    TRY ME!  TRY ME!  I don't know sheeot from Shinola.  (it was a shoe polish)  (and you already know what sheeot is)  

    This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at January 23, 2020 11:12 AM MST
      January 23, 2020 11:10 AM MST
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  • You two were making me laugh.  About the demented Frisbee...I would argue that the earth may not be flat but it is without a doubt demented.  LOL!
      January 23, 2020 11:14 AM MST
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  • 14795
    Core , I had a hand full of earth last year and the middle of it couldn't ave weighed that much if my tiny mits could lift  tit....  :(
      January 21, 2020 7:01 PM MST
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  • 448
    How do we get that scale down there? :)
      January 22, 2020 1:53 PM MST
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  • 14795
    This is not the the type of topic to have a mass debate about on this forum... :( 
      January 22, 2020 2:42 PM MST
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  • 7280
    OK, so it works out mathematically that the gravitational attraction of a sphere and a mass on the sphere's surface can be determined by assuming the mass of a sphere acts as if it were located at the center of that sphere.

    So now that we have all played along with this as you requested---where were you going with this?
      January 23, 2020 10:37 AM MST
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  • 46117
    How are you defining it?  The CORE?  


    I'm sure it is on google somewhere.  
      January 23, 2020 10:40 AM MST
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