Who would be silly enough to claim that we could get enough "downward wind" to apply a force equivalent to gravity.
That would need to be well over 100 km/hr. You might be oblivious to that but any sane person would feel decidedly windblown.
Great! You do realise that's not the same argument as "There's no reason for a downwards force," right? If you can show that the force would necessarily be insufficient, go do that! Don't act like it's a problem with me when you actively concede the argument I was criticising and replace it with another.
Yes, you get a directional pressure against the surface, but that pressure is against all surfaces in an enclosed space. It isn't unidirectional, it's in every direction. When you blow up a balloon, the pressure increases against all surface areas inside the ballon causing the ballon to expand. That's how gas in an enclosed environment works. As you add more air/gas inflow pressure at the valve will be greater but once the air/gas is inside the ballon the pressure equalizes across the entire inner area of the ballon.
Then you get onto what it is that makes the dome under the denpressure model, but that doesn't really matter. If you are against the flat surface, that's the direction it will b acting in. If the pressure cannot equalise, it will continue to do so.
Go back and read this entire conversation. At every point you’ve found some odd and different reason to object to or misinterpret my explanation (and the other 3 or 4 people giving you the exact same answer).
Alternative pitch: I'm not the one actively ignoring what you're saying. No misinterpretation required, you admitted there would be a force but you don't want to concede the point for... no reason.
If it is all about air pressure then the weight of an object would depend on its surface area.
Actually it's about air displacement, pretty sure Scepti's explained that to you a whole host of times, why do you even bother coming back here?
OK, but we are into quasi-religious doctrine here. Sounds like you just want us to accept it on faith, rather than treating it as a physical model.
As I said before, this "foundation" stuff makes the rest of it redundant - things fall to earth because that is their foundation, nothing to do with air pressure.
No. Stop clinging onto that, stop actively trying to twist everything anyone says into supporting that nonsense, this is ridiculous. There is a
physical reason for the floor of the dome to be special, just like there's a physical reason for the part of a piece of paper you set a match to, to catch fire before the rest of it. It's not because of some religious decision, it's because
that's how physics works. For once, can you acknowledge that rather than actively ignoring my exploanations because that's the straw man you want to believe?
This is stupidly simple. You concede that there would be more force from 'all directions,' and then you forget that there cannot be a force coming from the far side of you because
there is a giant honking disc in the way. This conversation should have been over and done with long ago.
On your left, five air molecules. On your right, fifty. Will the force be equal on all sides?