article_snippet: Research has found that it would only take a person 38 minutes to make it from one side of the planet to the other - not 42 minutes, as previously calculated.
article_snippet: For example, if a person fell from London to the Antipodes Islands - which are roughly the other side of the world - it would supposedly take that long to travel the whole way.
article_snippet: If you fell from London (left) to the Antipodes Islands (right) - which are roughly the other side of the world - it would supposedly take 38 minutes and 11 seconds to make the journey .
highlights_snippet: Originally it was thought the journey from one side of the Earth to the other - such as London to Antipodes Islands - would take 42 minutes .
  
highlights_snippet: Alexander Klotz from McGill University   claims the journey would actually take 38 minutes and 11 seconds .