Still listening to the goofball on "Coast to Coast." He just made the same error I made when I was a kid. I thought if the Earth was hollow, and open at the center, that people inside would be gravitationally attracted toward the outside shell. The person on the radio also believes this. However, I learned that the gravity inside a hollow shell doesn't work that way at all. A person inside a hollow shell would, in fact, be weightless. Only some fraction of artificial gravity would be generated by the rotation of the Earth. Your weight would go down as you walked toward the poles.
Of course, many years of seismological investigations, not to mention simple mass calculations and the structural limits of geological materials, have completely ruled out the idea of a large open space inside the Earth. But I still had fun reading about Pellucidar.
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