Is it or is it not the reason you said the experiments proposed here were flawed? We can not measure the amount of water being absorbed.
It depends on how you look at it.
Wood absorbs water by atmospheric displacement. Metals can absorb water depending on the porosity but this would be in shallow water with little pressure. Then there's the more minute porosity which would be squeezed and basically forcing out the atmospheric pressure within the metal.
It's a bit more in depth (pardon the pun) but real.
If water is not being absorbed then the experiments demonstrate it is volume displacing the water and not the objects density.
It appears that way but it's not strictly true. It's a dupe.
I also just selected steel as an example, but no metal absorbs water.
Yes it does but it's not worth going on about all the time.
I am guessing, but I imagine if enough pressure is involved it can.
Depends on the porosity in terms of size.
Just to give you an idea. Think of some metals that are deliberately made porous. Metals for absorption of oils and such for workings of machinery and bearing and such like.
I won't harp on because it's just going to go in another direction. We need to get back to basics.
That pressure is not something that occurs naturally on Earth. Again for the sake of argument will will say it might at the deepest parts of the ocean or deep under the crust where pressures are higher.
Like I said above.
With that in mind the experiments conducted and proposed here demonstrate it is not density that displaces a medium, but volume in all conditions except the most extreme we are assuming absorption would occur. Actually even then like a sponge it is still displacing based on volume and not density.
The volume CANNOT displace water without it being a density to allow it to do that.
This is why it's a dupe.
The volume of a jar (for instance)that is sealed will displace the density of that jar.
Now it's easy to say " yes but if you push that jar down, then you see that the volume of it displaces the water.
This is not a true reflection on water displacement by that jar and will show a reading of the energy to push that jar down as in how much extra force required to immerse it.
Or you can add density to that volume as in the dense metal, then collect the water it all displaces to get a true reading of the density of the jar and the dense metal inside of it.
The only issue is in the case of not allowing the dense metal to take the jar down to a real depth of more pressure as we've discussed.
But the whole object of it would be to get a true reading of the dense metal in the jar and the jar itself and the only real way to do that is to immerse the jar and metal under the water and allow the water to fill the jar.
Or you can lay a platform on the water and measure the platforms displacement of it, then place the sealed jar and metal and air onto the platform to get a true displacement of water.
Denpressure.
Still unwilling to let us know one experiment that can be conducted to demonstrate denpressure? It is a question I have not seen you directly answer. You only have said you did experiments, that you told others how to do them which I have not seen anywhere on this forum.
Balloons and metal blocks in a water barrel or tank of some sort, like I told you earlier in this thread.
Also I am thinking you do not understand why somethings float and some things do not.
I understand it fine so don't pull that crap. The only reason you're saying it is because you follow the robotic code of hard drive storage and recall parroting.
It is very simple.
If something can displace more water than it weighs it floats.
That is why when you see the tonnage for a boat it is not what the boat the boat weighs, but the amount of water it can displace. My boat displaces 20 tons. Guess how much weight I can load on to my boat before it sinks?
20 tons?
So if you melted your boat down into a metal block, then how much water would your boat displace then?
Or assuming your boat is wooden, then turn that into a block and how much would that displace in tonnage?
It is also why if we would just take a solid block of steel and threw it into the water it would sink. If we take that block of steel and increase its volume by making it hollow and into a hull it can float. Not only that we can design it so not only can it remain positively buoyant not only with the steels mass we can load it with cargo, engines, fuel, water, electronics, beds, toilets, food, etc.
The reason being volume displaces the medium something is in and not its density.
Yep, you could fill the boat with enough mass to sink it and that mass would make your boat into a double the displacement of water, boat and now you have to make that into a double the size block to sink which displaces how much?
Actually with your model it should be possible to build a sky boat that stays aloft not needing hot air, helium or similar. It would float using buoyancy since gravity does not exist. My guess some material like balsa wood, graphite or maybe even aluminum should work. It would just need to remain neutrally buoyant to float in the air at some air pressure since there is no gravity.
You basically answered your own question but made sure you disregarded the elements that prove it to be so. Nice one.
If I ever get really bored I might come up with a simple design and use the same calculations that are used for boats to see if it is possible. I'll have to change the calculations a little since it will not be for salt or fresh water.
Maybe if you learn to think by yourself and see where it takes you. You never know, you might end up actually realising a lot more as you go on.
Mind you, I can't blame you for taking the easy way out and trying to do your best to please your peers. It's a lonely road when you search for truth's or questions the accepted indoctrinated belief's.