Phil's Old Blog

Originally posted April 13th 2003

I went to see a film last night. The Core. Synopsis.......

1) Everybody with a heart pacemaker dies.

2) All the pigeons in London go mad.

3) The spaceshuttle lands in L.A. thousands of miles off course.

From this, the scientific guys hypothesise that we're all doomed.......so, they build this huge wormy device that takes all of the scientific guys, including the token woman scientific guy, the token black scientific guy, and the token French scientific guy down to the centre of the Earth.....(Helped back on the surface by the token computer nerd with the big nose)

They set light to five nuclear weapons and put everything back in order again. There, that's probably saved you about three hours of your life and about £5.......ANYWAY, it set my mind thinking.

If you did have one of these huge wormy things, and set it up on the moon, then drilled a hole exactly through the centre of the moon, going straight down without any deviations, hesitations or repetitions, then dropped a cricket ball straight down the tube, what would happen to it.

I think, it would fall straight down, accelerating all of the way until it passes the centre point. It would then continue to move through the tube, using momentum, until eventually it starts falling back down the tube again. This process would go on and on forever, because there is no air to slow the ball.

Am I right?

I would like to name this hypothesis, "Phil's Moontube Theory".©®™

All the best,

Phil