Your body and weight of the atmosphere

[Quasar44]

Evertime you go outside you’re feeling 15 pounds per sq inch of atmosphere air pressure per every sq inch of your body


Don’t worry .The forces go in every direction and it balances out

 

[mamooth]

Technically, there's a bit of buoyancy, since the air pressure at your head is slightly less than that at your feet. It's about 0.15 pounds of upward force for an average sized adult.

 

[Quasar44]

Technically, there's a bit of buoyancy, since the air pressure at your head is slightly less than that at your feet. It's about 0.15 pounds of upward force for an average sized adult.

Would that force be smaller in your house than outside ??

 

[Grumblenuts]

Technically, there's a bit of buoyancy, since the air pressure at your head is slightly less than that at your feet. It's about 0.15 pounds of upward force for an average sized adult.

Interesting. Never heard that one before. So without gravity we'd all be accelerated away from the surface until we reached the top of the atmosphere, after which we'd coast out into space - that is, were it not for the fact that atmospheric pressure itself results from gravity. Actually, we'd just drift around without gravity,.. with nothing to breathe.

 

[alang1216]

Technically, there's a bit of buoyancy, since the air pressure at your head is slightly less than that at your feet. It's about 0.15 pounds of upward force for an average sized adult.

Interesting. Never heard that one before. So without gravity we'd all be accelerated away from the surface until we reached the top of the atmosphere, after which we'd coast out into space - that is, were it not for the fact that atmospheric pressure itself results from gravity. Actually, we'd just drift around without gravity,.. with nothing to breathe.

You're traveling at 1,000 mph if you stand on the equator. Without gravity the centrifugal (centripetal?) force would hurl you into space. In a month or two you might make it to the moon

 

[Grumblenuts]

Along with that tree you've been hanging on to lately. There's no "standing" in zero G! No standing!

 

[itfitzme]

Technically, there's a bit of buoyancy, since the air pressure at your head is slightly less than that at your feet. It's about 0.15 pounds of upward force for an average sized adult.

Interesting. Never heard that one before. So without gravity we'd all be accelerated away from the surface until we reached the top of the atmosphere, after which we'd coast out into space - that is, were it not for the fact that atmospheric pressure itself results from gravity. Actually, we'd just drift around without gravity,.. with nothing to breathe.

You're traveling at 1,000 mph if you stand on the equator. Without gravity the centrifugal (centripetal?) force would hurl you into space. In a month or two you might make it to the moon

If it suddenly disappeared.

Otherwise, you would just hang in one place while the Earth spun beneath you. I imagine your foot would probably get hit by a rock and cause you to spin around your center of gravity until a tree or building hit you. You might get bounced out but you might get lucky. At that point, you could hang onto it, go around to the bottom side of a branch or climb in a window and stand on the ceiling.