This isn't true.
The 'electrode' is on top of an enormous mountain and shines through a crystal onto the ice dome. When scepti says it's "at the centre of the world" he means the centre of the landmasses - like in the azimuthal equidistant projection. Why nobody can see the mountain is not important.
Thanks for clarifying. i'd seen there was a mound, I didn't know how high up it went. I do recall him saying the source for the power came from lower down, if I remember.
The problem with your line of argument is there are no pumps working in the manner you are describing.
All pumps have a barrier that moves, which then requires a response from the contained gas.
What is happening on the high pressure side is irrelevant because the force the contained gas experiences is not coming from the air outside of the system.
Even if you were to create a perfect vacuum outside the system, the contained gas can only experience less force if the barrier moves away from the contained gas.
I am finding the emphasis on pushing away the gas to be very odd. Whatever model is used for the molecules the reduction in force the gas experiences is being created by the pumps moving barrier.
No force is exerted by the outside onto the inside. Remember that, under this model, there are no pull forces.
I would point out you have previously said that the pumps do work broadly the same way under each model. My description is somewhat simplified to try to illustrate the key points of the model, but the general basis should be clear.
Air in container. Pump attached: end result of that is a lower pressure adjacent to the air in the container. Air in contain expands and outer molecules are pushed out into the lower pressure.
This is how the model works. If you somehow freeze time and arrange all air molecules so that they fill half of a box, and the rest of the box is empty, then the molecules will seek to expand because that is what they're always trying to do. The only reason they don't normally is the pressure of other molecules all around them: reduce or remove that pressure, and they now have a direction to expand, which in turn means the outer layers will be pushed by the expanding inner layers outwards.
Why do i need to remember there are no pull forces?? In the standard physics model there are no pull forces.
Vacuum cleaners do not suck. Vacuum pumps do not suck. Nothing is being pulled upon by these devices.
>>This is how the model works. If you somehow freeze time and arrange all air molecules so that they fill half of a box, and the rest of the box is empty, then the molecules will seek to expand because that is what they're always trying to do. The only reason they don't normally is the pressure of other molecules all around them: reduce or remove that pressure, and they now have a direction to expand, which in turn means the outer layers will be pushed by the expanding inner layers outwards.
Half of that is exactly the same as the standard physics model.
This part is the same:
>>If you somehow freeze time and arrange all air molecules so that they fill half of a box, and the rest of the box is empty, then the molecules will seek to expand because that is what they're always trying to do
However this part does not fit with reality.
>>The only reason they don't normally is the pressure of other molecules all around them: reduce or remove that pressure, and they now have a direction to expand,
Gases naturally become mixed. One portion of gas does normally expand into a container when there is another gas present.
>>Air in contain expands and outer molecules are pushed out into the lower pressure.
The way that is written is strange and it does not make sense. You are beginning with air expanding and then talking about how the outer molecules are pushed out into the lower pressure.
How does the inner part expand ........... unless the outer molecules have already expanded into the lower pressure??