If the Earth was hollow, and I start digging, will I fall into the cavity when I reach it?

If the Earth was hollow, and I start digging, will I fall into the cavity when I reach it?

start digging and then let me know if you fall in....

yes there is a chance of falling.

If you can imagine that there would still me more mass on the far side of the hole than there is behind you then the net force of gravity would be to pull you in... However, that doesn't mean you'd reach the other side because after you fell half way across the gap you'd get pulled back by gravity being greater in the other direction.Ignoring air resistance you'd get simple harmonic oscilation across the chasm as long as it is in the centre of the earth !

For starters the Earth isn't hollow, so this question is already in the realm of the impossible. But if the Earth was hollow and you dug through the crust you would fall, since the mass of the earth would be distributed more or less evenly across the surface of a sphere, the center of gravity would still be at the center of the sphere. So when you stopped oscillating you would eventually come to rest in the hollow core of the earth.

You would float around, weightless, inside the hollow earth just as an astronaut floats inside a space ship that is in free fall.

of course not because the gravitational force exertd by the mass of the hollow earth would be much much less than the force exerted by our dense earth. it would just depend on the mass of the hollow earth.