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In a perfectly-shaped sphere, with a smooth surface, and composed of exactly the

same substance with the same density throughout it, the force of gravity is zero at

the exact center of the sphere. That does NOT mean that 'gravity becomes zero' at

the center. It means that at the center, for every speck of mass pulling on you in

any direction with any force, there's another speck of mass pulling you in exactly

the opposite direction with exactly the same amount of force, so the whole thing

adds up to zero.

In the real Earth, we can't tell exactly where that point is, because the Earth is

not a perfect sphere shape, It doesn't have a smooth surface, and we don't know

every last little detail about the distribution of mass inside it.

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