[TML] "Dies the Fire"

[Timothy Little]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 08:16:06PM -0800, shadow at shadowgard.com wrote:
> BTW, come to think of it, in most places, the holes would tend to 
> accumulate water (and dust and rocks) in the middle. Anything that 
> falls in will get slowed to terminal velocity long before the center. 
> And that's not enough to carry it far past the center. So eventually, 
> it'd come to a stop at the center. 
> 
> Rocks will accumulate easiest.

Actually, air will accumulate easiest.  At the pressures it will reach
in the middle, it will very likely be denser than water, and probably
in the form of a crystalline solid.  Not that the water will be liquid
either, it will be ice-VII.  And both will be extremely hot, from
falling a couple of thousand kilometres.  It will take them a long
time to cool.


- Tim