Three minutes to the centre of the Earth - BBC

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[mohamadn]

I just wonder how would we know this information about the center of the earth like temperatures, minerals, and other stuff when we still can't get through the first layer?

[propellor]

This was best thing I ever watched about earth stuff, like damn, I felt amazed and was Interested the whole time !!!!

[moanahakiwai-xh]

Great story telling, great animation 😊💛🌿

[roelfbackus]

When you are in the center of the earth, you have 6, 000 km of rock pressing on you from all sides. But if you drill a hole (as a thought experiment, because it is technically impossible), you will have a free space in the center, say 10 x 10 x 10 meters. Will you still be squeezed together in that free space? Some say no: you will float in the middle, others say yes, because you are not squeezed by the 6000 km of rock, but by the space-time curvature, which is still maximally present at the center. Hard to imagine, and we may never know. Where is the physicist to explain this?

[e_xtazzy]

I felt bad for the driver. He made it out or still in there? Any update?

[staceybryceadams]

pressure waves that’s how they know what’s in center of earth. You learn this in college Physics class

[et]

If only Sir David Attenborough were the narrator for this video because it's hard to tolerate the voice.

[taker]

Gerry Anderson’s kids called, they suing over use of their Mole

[Shravani]

I feel very amazing after I watch this video. ❤ Nice..

[danbee]

Perhaps there is a meeting line between gravity and electromagnetism, or where we can mimic what the Earth does so that we dont get crushed. Like the electromagnetic force field and witht the atmosphere’s structure

[faheyplayer]

Atoms get bent, deep inside the “Erf” LOL

[o-way-zilla]

😂😂😂 bro y’all don’t even know what’s at the bottom of the deepest oceans. Htf y’all gonna know what beneath the deepest oceans 🤦‍♂️

[katiegarcia]

I have a question that I would like someone to answer I may ask

when u Skuba dive and u do deeper and deeper and deeper it gets cold right so in the middle of the earth there is like say a hot ball and when u get deeper isn't it supposed to get hotter or am I tweaking I would be grateful if you answer this and thanks for telling about the world it seems cool and fun knowing what's inside what we are living on! have a good day.

[stephenvarnier]

This video is clearly not real. It is obviously an animation and not actual footage of the center of the earth.

[Xintherios]

hate from Canada. Wheres my homie Attenborough

[largedoglover]

😮😮😮. Give me professor Iain Stewart, any day.

[absmith]

🤔 Waste of money, did the license payers fund this cartoon ?

[matthewyabsley]

Should have asked kurzgesagt to make the animation ….

[reshmapatel]

I don't like the narrator. I can't understand what they are saying.

[JJONNYREPP]

Three minutes to the centre of the Earth - BBC 1304pm 2.8.23 so 40ft is the deepest any animal burrows as a shelter....? i mean you mentioned worms at 2km down... so we await the day they do drill in to the mantle - which is akin to a bunch of kids undertaking some act just to see what happens....