Why Do You Not Feel the Pressure of the Atmosphere?
Right now, you are sitting at the bottom of an invisible ocean of air. The Earth’s atmosphere stretches roughly 100 kilometers above our heads, and gravity pulls all of those gas molecules down toward the surface. At sea level, this atmospheric pressure pushes against every square inch of your body with about 14.7 pounds of […]
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