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Bob
Lv 4
Bob asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 7 years ago

If you were in an ocean given zero gravity, would you still experience the same pressure (or close to)?

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    7 years ago
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    It wouldn't be possible for there to be an ocean with no gravity. All particles with mass exert a gravitational force, even a single electron. If you had an ocean's worth of water just floating around in space it would clump together into a sphere and create its own gravity.

  • 7 years ago

    Those are good answers. Very little pressure would be present anywhere in the ocean, which would evaporate at the surface with no gravity and very little of the water vapor would be recaptured.

    Micro gravity would always exist in our galaxy, so the question requires magic.

  • Anonymous
    7 years ago

    NO pressure is based on the FORCE of GRAVITY acting to pull all mass to a central "center of gravity"

    a Planet of fluid would have pressure with depth.thre is NO such thing as true Zero gravity.

    in orbit everything is falling "side by side" in the local gravity field. the earth dominates for the Moon and the near earth space station

    the space station is "pressurized ' by air and is almost perfectly air tight. air is lost when the air lock is opened. air pressure control is vital. in the ISS drops and "globs" of water hold together by surface tension. the tension does have micro pressure inside , that is what keeps them a ball ( that wiggles)

  • Bob
    Lv 4
    7 years ago

    So, you have 17' of water (or 2000 feet, doesn't matter) completely surrounding you in space. Will you still feel the same pressure in space as on earth when in an equivalent amount of water?

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