and actually I’m not even sure it is physics!
Davies was asking yesterday about how the whole upside down to each other thing works with different places on the earth (obviously brought about by having friends who were here 48 hours ago but are now literally on the other side of the world and therefore upside down to us). We talked a bit about how you don’t actually go upside down rather stay the right way up as you travel across the earth’s surface but it is very much not my area of expertise.
Then he wanted to know whether you’d fall out feet first then if you went through the very middle of the earth. He does know you couldn’t for all the obvious reasons but wanted to know the answer anyway. Turns out a quick google this morning shows he’s by no means the first person to ask that question. There doesn’t seem to be a quick definitite answer though but I do at least have some theories of more informed people to share with him now. Found this and liking this lots
Maybe I should think about a timetable after all…. 😆
*jots down Physics on Thursday mornings* 😉 We’ll be checking up on you next week …
Comment by Alison — 08 October 2009 @ 3:36 pm