if all elements attempt to find their place, if I dig a hole, and I find a tuber while digging, and I put it at the bottom of the hole after digging, deeper than where I found it, why does the tuber not rise to the level I found it at? Why does the natural state of all things seem to be at the bottom, regardless of its weight/ density/ whatever?
The natural state of all things isn't at the bottom, that's the thing. The Earth consists of trapped matter in all things and pressure releases them in stages, from super pressure right under the Earth to lesser pressure above. Your tuber has been placed in an environment that it's not strong enough to recover from.
But all I did was place it in a hole lower than its natural level. Are you saying that the Tuber can push away rocks and stones to find its level but cannot but away the far less heavy air?
If I buried you up to your waist in sand, you could pull yourself out with a bit of energy and time. I buried you up to your neck you are going to have a serious problem, because your body is not designed for that environment.
However, if I was to lay a lump of lead on the sand and leave it, it would eventually sink and sink. Everything has it's place as long as you are alive, your place is on top of the ground. When you die, your body is taken apart and put into its respective elemental make up of the Earth.
The body isn't designed to be buried either waste or neck deep in sand, but there's no serious problems to simply being buried to one's neck in the short term.
Also, a lead lump, placed on a pile of sand in an isolated chamber, unmoved, would rest on the top of the sand, as there is no sorting action to sift the sand around and above it. It doesn't magically sink through the grains.
Anything ejected up to the surface will always be under pressure. The more dense ejection, the more pressure is applied, giving a small dense object a lot of measured weight for it size because it displaces more atmosphere than other less dense object of bigger sizes because those objects actually absorb quite a lot of atmsophere in terms of a lot is equalised into them, which is why a sping can be big but light to us and weigh next to nothing.
How do objects "absorb" atmosphere?
I also have a small experiment for you to weigh in on (pun unavoidable). I have two spring scales. One hangs vertically, the other horizontally. Attached to both are identical cables whose weight is known. The cable hangs over a simple pulley with no notable resistance, so that the end of the cable hangs down. In both cases, two object of identical shape and weight are hung from each scale, and show the same weight.
Both weights and scales are inside an evacuation chamber, which is then evacuated. How does this evacuation affect both spring scales, one hanging vertically, one horizontally?
There bound to show the same weight. Why wouldn't they? They are identical. As long as the same resistance is acting on each pulley there will be no change against the other.
So, even though air presser acts lateral to the resistance of the horizontal spring, and pushes against the resistance of the vertical spring (Pushing it and the object down, in denpressure hypothesis), you say there would be no change?
Good to know.
Along the same lines, would these two weight react the same if the air pressure was doubled, and how much of a weight difference do you expect this, let us say ten pound weight, would show?
A similar question arises, which I will ask via another hypothetical scenario. I have a ball bearing on a spring, ready to launch directly up. It's got a remote controlled release mechanism. On launching it, it pops into the air, let's say about half the height of an evacuatable cylinder. I remove half the air from that chamber, then launch the ball bearing again. Under Denpressure, does the ball launch higher into the cylinder, or lower? Roughly how much of a change in height would be expected?
Similarly, how is the Ball's descent affected? Does it fall faster or slower?