(October 5, 2009 at 5:51 pm)Saerules Wrote: but I think that losing the weight of the contained air is accumulative with whatever else is responsible for the loss in weight. Supposedly not much weight was lost in the study... and air does not weigh much.
Breathing out does not affect your weight
. I'm not saying air is weightless, but our scales are calibrated in such a way that they read zero when the only force on them is due to the pressure of the atmosphere above them i.e when there's "nothing" on them (apart from the air)
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
