Why is it you think that I can't explain this?
Because you are yet to come close.
For example you appeal to the density of the air, which is a result of the pressure, as if that should magically hold back the pressure.
But if we increase the pressure or decrease the pressure, it doesn't just stay put.
There is a particular pressure gradient which is observed.
We see a different gradient in fluids with different density.
We also see that fluids, especially air, are well mixed.
If it was going to separate based upon density then we would have a layer of CO2, followed by a layer of O2, followed by a layer of N2.
Instead, what we observe is a mixture of all three, at different pressures.
You don't understand buoyancy as it really is, instead understanding the fairy tale version taught to you by Newton and his heirs.
Quite the opposite it. I understand it, so I recognise you are spouting pure BS.
I recognise your delusional BS doesn't work.
1. Atoms and molecules of similar density ranges inhabit different layers of the pressure gradient.
That's right, similar density ranges atoms throughout this pressure gradient, and a variation of that density throughout (i.e. density does not correspond to layer).
We have atoms like CO2, right next to atoms like O2 and N2.
As a reminder, CO2 has a "density" of 44. O2 is 32. Nitrogen is 28. That is almost double.
Yet this range happily coexists throughout the atmosphere.
2. These usually stay in place due to neutral buoyancy causing them to neither sink nor rise.
Again, this is entirely ignoring the pressure gradient.
So we have neutral density. That means the pressure gradient pushes it to remove that pressure gradient.
Changes in air density are due to changes in air pressure due to temperature. That is, "hot air rises, cool air falls." Since air conducts heat, this creates the near constant fluctuations known as weather.
Temperature is not the only factor. Altitude is.
We can also see this pressure gradient in other fluids like water, and confirm they are the same temperature, yet a different pressure.
We also don't see the crazy motion of the air you would expect from this pressure gradient.
Having climbed mountains before, I didn't feel the "reduced gravity" that supposedly exists in thinner air.
What do you mean supposedly exists?
You appear to be spouting pure BS.
The change in gravity from climbing is negligible. Unless you are using accurate devices you will not detect it.
As a simplification, gravity follows a law of F=GMm/r^2, where you treat a roughly spherically symmetric mass (like Earth) as a point at the centre.
The radius of Earth is roughly 6371 km.
The height of Mt Everest is roughly 9 km.
That means you go from 6371 to 6380.
That means gravity at the top will have decreased to (6371/6380)^2 or 99.7% of that at sea level.
So if you weigh 100 kg at the sea level, you will weigh 99.7 kg at the peak, or 0.3 kg or 300 g lighter.
You will lose exhale roughly 1 kg of CO2, which is roughly the same.
If you include sweat and so on, your weight fluctuates by far more than that over the course of a day. Are you really telling me you can feel that?
when you climb uphill, it is harder to climb.
Yes, because you have climbed, so you are tired.
Then if you rest, it is fine. Until you get to very high altitudes and you start running out of oxygen.
but they are then told at high elevations, you ought to be able to moon jump. Tell me why.
Because lying scum like you spout pure BS to ridicule gravity because you can't actually refute it.
Why don't you tell me who, other than you, is saying such crap?
6. It also means that their are height limits to flying transportation.
That depends on how you define "flying". If you mean it uses the air to generate lift, then yes.
If you mean anything that goes through the air including things like rockets, then no.
But as you have no explanation for the pressure gradient, there should be no limit.
The gravity theory doesn't explain why planes cannot simply fly higher by pushing harder
Again, it does.
Gravity directly explains the pressure gradient. This pressure gradient means the air is thinner higher, so things like planes which use the air to generate lift, have a limited altitude.
Things like rockets, which use them propelling exhaust gasses generated or stored inside at high pressure and velocity to push forwards do not have such a limit.
I notice in all that crap of yours you still entirely failed to address the issues raised, including the pressure gradient. You basically said it exists with no justification of why.
Why should buoyancy cause this pressure gradient?
Say you have water of uniform density in a tube.
What causes the water at the bottom to get more bunched up from this?
I can even slowly pour the water in, or condense it from a gas.
Regardless of how it goes in there, it creates a pressure gradient.
WHY?
What causes this pressure gradient to form?
If I consider any part of the water, it is as the same density as the rest, so there is no reason for a pressure gradient at all. It should just sit there neutrally buoyant.
And then why doesn't this pressure gradient push all the water up and out of the tube?
Again, if you want to pretend your BS works, you need to address these massive issues with your delusional BS:
1 - Why having a different density to air should cause something to accelerate?
2 - Why in particular direction?
3 - Why at a particular rate?
4 - Why does this rate vary with location?
5 - Why does this exert a force on scales, including when they are made of a material denser than the object in question?
6 - Why does this create and maintain a pressure gradient?
7 - Why this particular pressure gradient based upon the density of the fluid, such that a lesser pressure gradient causes the fluid to fall and compress the fluid below while a greater pressure gradient pushes the fluid up?
8 - Why this pressure gradient doesn't just push everything up?
Again, gravity addresses them fine.