If I travelled towards the centre of the earth would my mass increase or decrease?

Might be more like a bungee cord type of feeling, where the momentum of your gravitational pull towards the centre makes you travel past the core, and once the momentum force is expanding you rise to the centre again.

the earth is so big, we cant drill deep enough to test the theory of mass increasing the closer you get to the center.

if you theoretically feel through a hole from crust to the core, you would continue falling past the core then start to slow down miles after the core if another parallel hole is on the other side to allow you to pass.

this is also under conditions where the core would not burn you to dust before you even reached near it.

Would be a great bungee cord experience! but in the centre would our mass be zero?

Your mass would stay the same. Your weight would decrease gradually as the tug on your mass became exerted in all directions, becoming equal at the center of the Earth. But you would need to be made of molten Iron or be Superman to survive the heat

I guess at the onset our mass would be zero, but then gradually other planets gravitational pull would start to affect our mass.

But should my weight increase as I approach the center?

No. with equal gravitaional attraction on all sides, your weight would be zero, and your mass would be the same--if you are made of indestructible material as temperature there is 10,000 degrees F or higher.

Last Edited by MarPep on 04/26/2019 08:43 PM

no .

you won't become smarter either .