would you blow up if you were trying to get to the middle of the earth and you were in the middle of your way?

Question: would you blow up if you were trying to get to the middle of the earth and you were in the middle of your way?
- Keywords:
  blow up,
  core,
  earth,
  world
Asked by scibtings123 to Ed, Hayley, Jason, Nathan, Sophie on 12 Mar 2013.
- Hayley Evers-King answered on 12 Mar 2013:
  
  The heat would be a major problem trying to get to the centre of the Earth. Even at only 3.6km deep in one of the deepest mines in the world (it’s in South Africa, where I live!) the temperature already reaches 55 degrees. The Earths radius (how far to the centre) is about 6,731km, and down there is a lot of hot and molten rock, the temperature is more than 5000 degrees!!!
  
  I also think you’d probably have trouble getting air down there all the way from the surface, and creating materials to build a mine that could withstand that temperature and pressure.

Question: would you blow up if you were trying to get to the middle of the earth and you were in the middle of your way?