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Gravity always attracts a mass toward the center of the Earth.

If you were to dive into a tunnel through the center of the Earth and stretch your

arms out like Superman as you descended, then the force of gravity would point

in the direction of your fingers until you reached the center, and in the direction of

your toes after that. So you might say that the direction of the force had switched

around when you passed the center.

But if you knew enough Physics to dive into such a tunnel in the first place, then

you would know that the force is always directed toward the center of the Earth,

and that "down" means different directions in different places, and you would not

interpret it as a 'switcheroo'.

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