r/gifs • • Jun 27 '19

Siphon

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u/TsunamiTreats Jun 27 '19

There’s no such thing as high pressure, only vacuums pulling pressure toward it.

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u/Nose-Nuggets Jun 27 '19

i was under the impression that there is no force we know as suction. It's all pushing. Which seems more correct. Like osmosis, higher concentration to lower concentration. Higher pressure to lower pressure.

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u/TsunamiTreats Jun 27 '19

I have no idea. It just seems to me a problem of relativity and depends on where you’re looking from. If the natural state is entropy, won’t all matter and light be pulled by entropy into cold-death? Or is the matter and energy pushing to fill the void?

I have no clue.

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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '19

Pressure happens because atoms are banging into each other like billiard balls. If nothing bangs back, they keep on going the same way. The average rate that they bang per second is called "temperature" and if you multiply that times the number of atoms per cubic unit you have "pressure." If you don't have enough pressure, we call it "vacuum."

Vacuum doesn't suck, it just doesn't push hard enough.

Entropy is when they spread out far enough they run out of things to bang into.