Good Question, read

Think of air pressure as being the weight of the column of air above you, up into space. Air pressure, and viscosity, would continually INCREASE as you got closer to the center of the earth, so terminal velocity would decrease. You’d hit Vt while still near the surface, then slow down as you descended into an increasingly-thick soup. By the time you got to the center, you’d have very little kinetic energy left and wouldn’t go very far the other way.

With no air or any other energy-loss mechanisms, you’d make it all the way to the opposite end before your energy ran out, then fall back the other way in an endless oscillation. But before long, you’d wish you had some air.

Well, you might want to ask such questions in the Comments on Cecil’s Columns forum. I predict that this thread will shortly be moved there anyway.

Exqueeze me? Am I to understand that you already knew the answer was in the archives, and you asked it here already? That is a very stupid way to start your posting career. Watch your step.

This thread is closed.

AudreyK, thanks for digging up that link; don’t let this guy lower your standards or your willingness to help.