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If I was a hypothetical object able to freely drop into/through the earth, at what point do I begin to slow down instead of speed up i.e. I will have an acceleration of 9.8 m/s2 speeding me up but I presume at the very center gravity accln is zero, so at what point does the braking happen?

by /u/Mulks23 in /r/askscience

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