Let me make this easier.
Imagine you have a bicycle pump and a valve attached to a container.
You want to evacuate air from the container.
By your own hand you raise the plunger out of the pump chamber.
This appears to you that you are sucking out the molecules in that valved container...right?
Well it would be wrong.
What's happening is happening inside of the pump chamber with it's rubber plunger.
That rubber plunger on the shaft inside of that pump chamber, in conjunction with your hand grip energy to raise it is compressing the atmosphere above that plunger and leaving behind a lower pressure that the container molecules... which are compressed, to naturally expand into that lower pressure space.
Leave loose of that plunger and the handle gets compressed back against that evacuated container air to equalise.
Can you see what I'm saying?
Parts of Bicycle pump: hand grip attached to steel rod Metal desk rubber gasket, placed into a steel tube at top a steel disk hole in Center of it, as a guide for the steel rod and a breeder hole, at the bottom there is a small whole a rubber hose is attached with a one-way valve, air can only pass out.
We will start with the rod just just allCut thisall the way in. Disc gasket at the very bottom, Is now drawn upward, creating a vacuum at the bottom, but the gasket allows air to pass by it, filling the vacuum.
At top, we make a downward stroke, the Gasket expands now, not allowing air to pass by it. Creating pressure and the bottom of the tube, that pushes past the one-way valve on rubber hose, filling the tire.
That is my understanding, how a bicycle pump works.
Is this incorrect?
If so what is wrong with it?
now for a vacuum pump: you have a container (chamber) in which you want to create a vacuum. This chamber has a one-way valve attached to it, a second valve that is closed, when Open Will allow air back in. To the one way valve, you attach a pump that draws air out of the chamber. The pump is like a single cylinder engine. With a chamber, cylinder head, a crankshaft, two Vals,(a in take, and a out take). As the cylinder head moves up-and-down in this chamber, it creates a vacuum in the upstroke, pulling air, from the vacuum chamber, the Vals not allowing air to move back in, the Downward stroke, pushes air into the room.
This has nothing to do with gravity, I'm afraid it would work in both worlds. Proving disproving nothing, other than a vacuum can exist.