Thread: It's the final countdown!
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mscion is offline mscion
2016-09-29 , 12:10
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Originally Posted by pichlo View Post
Indeed. And what is causing the pressure? The weight of the column of air above.
Whatever you call it, it is definitely not the nature's fear of the vacuum.



True. All the more reason to be cautious.
You might consider reading a basic physics book on what controls motion of water up a straw.... (mainly pressure difference or capillary action) Regardless I like the phrase

"medieval idea that nature abhors empty space and wants to fill it"

Probably another way of saying that a system goes from lower to higher entropy. Kind of like this thread lol!