In The Magical Mysteries of SHAZAM! #6, Billy Batson receives the wisdom of Solomon when he becomes his superpowered alter ego.
However,
Solomon didn't understand gravity. Neither does Billy or his writer (Steve Orlando, who majored in creative writing instead of physics) since Billy's description is exactly the OPPOSITE of how gravity works. As you plunge to the center of some large celestial body like the moon, an increasingly large amount of mass is above you--pulling you away from the center. When you reach the center of the gravitating mass... there's no more pull of gravity from the moon. Well, more accurately, you have reached the point where the moon is pulling you equally in all directions; the combined pulls cancel one another out and the end effect is: zero gravity.
Oom (the giant creature whom Billy has just entombed) might have difficult climbing out of that terribly deep hole (1080 miles, approximately), but it certainly won't be because of gravity. The moon's gravity, as pretty much anyone knows (or can look up) is only one sixth that of Earth's at the surface. It wouldn't even reach that strength until Oom finally climbed to the TOP of the hole.
I know Billy's POWERS are magical, but his world should still have normal physics.
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