No, YOU are making this really difficult for yourself. If everything is so porous, why can I not blow through a bottle?
Because the bottle is not porous enough to allow air nor liquid to pass through it, just inside of it.
If I put a solid piece of glass in a chamber filled with a colored gas, would it then take the color of the gas because of absorbing it?
It would mix due to the glass being in an expanded state upon heating.
WHY AREN'T GUSTS OF WIND COMPLETELY DESTRUCTIVE?
They can be depending on the severity of a high verses low pressure differential.
How do things work in a vacuum/much lower air pressure (don't tell me you can't do that, you obviously can)?
Name me something that can work in a vacuum that you can absolutely verify.
Also, things can work in lower pressure environments because it's still atmosphere.
Why can I not fly the same way I can swing, by swimming through the air?
Because the swing takes your entire weight. All your flailing body has to do from that point is displace enough air to get you swinging.
Flying requires you to use your flailing body in such extremity to gain flight that you would literally have to buzz your arms at such a rate they would literally wear out in seconds, assuming you could magically do it, which we all know we cannot.
Are you even remotely serious when you say that interactions between bodies such as pushing on a wall happen because somehow air is displaced?
Pushing on anything displaces air all the time, no matter what. It's why we are alive and it's why anything and everything moves. High V low pressure differences.
Now you're trapped. If the bottle is porous enough to let air get in the interior of it, then what if I cut the glass in half? Surely now the air can get through it!
"It would mix due to the glass being in an expanded state upon heating."WTF does that even mean? Seriously, you have to explain it.
"They can be depending on the severity of a high verses low pressure differential."
First of all, that doesn't make sense. Second, if you haven't yet realized it, wind often moves faster than your legs on a swing. If moving your legs on a swing is enough to push yourself, wind should be able to throw you around as if you weren't anything at all.
"Name me something that can work in a vacuum that you can absolutely verify."What do you mean by "can work"? I know things can fall for a start, and that things weigh the same.
"Also, things can work in lower pressure environments because it's still atmosphere."
Yes, but they would work much different. Their mass for a start would be much lower, as they would displace much less air.
"Because the swing takes your entire weight. All your flailing body has to do from that point is displace enough air to get you swinging.
Flying requires you to use your flailing body in such extremity to gain flight that you would literally have to buzz your arms at such a rate they would literally wear out in seconds, assuming you could magically do it, which we all know we cannot."
I can show you that the force required to get you from being stationary to swinging is so much that you'd be able to AT LEAST feel less heavy as you swing your arms around, but I'm not going to do that. Instead, what I will do is tell you this: if I am sitting on a cart or on ice skates or something similar (that would "take my weight"), I should be able to propel myself by "swimming" through the air, and very fast.
"Pushing on anything displaces air all the time, no matter what. It's why we are alive and it's why anything and everything moves. High V low pressure differences."HOW does it displace air?
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