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Quote by: Thanatos  The problem is tides. You weight just slightly less on top of Mt. Everest than you do at sea level. Its something like an ounce for your average man, but being further from the majority of the Earth does have an effect.
As you approach a point mass, the gravity tugging on your toes becomes stronger than the gravity on your head because your toes are slightly closer. Same principle, just a stronger and more concentrated field. The problem is that as you approach you're eventually going to be torn in half by the tides, and then the pieces get shredded and so on until the protons in your body crack in half. This might hurt a bit. |
Ah, this may occur if something was holding the rest of your body in place, but if the pull is stronger at your toes, then that would just pull the rest of your body with it, like me pulling you by the arm. If one tide is stronger then the other, then you would be overpowered by the stronger one and there wouldn't be a conflicting tide rip..... like a wirlpool in the ocean or something.... it's got greater pull then the air above the water or your own bouyancy, so you'd be sucked under.
I assume this, because you said one was stronger then the other... in order for it to rip you to shreds, both tides would require equal force in opposite directions.
*shrugs* I dunno... let me go look it up...