Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier?
seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day agoWhat if you had eaten something that created a bunch of hydrogen gas (and lived somehow)? Wouldn’t standing on a precision scale at sea level, in a sea level atmospheric pressure and composition, show you getting heavier as you expel the hydrogen.
otter@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I’m not sure it would, unless the person’s volume also changes considerably
angrystego@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My volume changes a lot. When I’m full of gas, I look like I’m pregnant.
Fondots@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Well your guts and skin and other tissues do have some elasticity, I suppose it is possible that a large gas bubble might be able to expand your abdomen slightly.
We’re very much into spherical cows in a vacuum territory here. I don’t think there’s any way this would be realistically measurable,just fun to think about.
Windex007@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It would have to expand your abdomen slightly, assuming you don’t have access to a fourth dimension.