5 Places On Earth Where Gravity Doesn't Seem To Exist

3. The Centre

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Cool Uncle Otto Lindenbrock took his nephew Axel on a journey to the centre of the Earth in Jules Verne's novel of the same name, presumably against the strict instructions of his parents ("have him home by tea-time"). Down there, the professor discovered all manner of crazy nonsense, such as giant mushrooms and prehistoric mastodons.

What he didn't experience, contrary to popular belief about the Earth's core, is a) melting horribly to death and b) enjoying gravity-free floating, moments before said disintegration.

With a temperature of over 6000 degrees Celsius, turning to liquid mush is a certainty for any visitor to our planet's nucleus. The absence of gravity is a little more subtle; with the force acting universally across the whole globe, the centre is logically the most gravity-laden place on Earth. However, you'd still experience a sense of weightlessness, thanks to gravitational pull from every direction. That is, had your face not just dripped onto the floor.

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