This is where we have to be careful if you're using the water analogy, especially if you're using a ball of atmosphere, so we need to be clearer about this.
Let's use a metal ball.
And seeing as we are using that then you can understand a metal ball sitting on a sea/water bed would not be getting pushed up directly from underneath and it is key to understand this.
What is happening is the ball's curve below at the sea/water bed is having it sit and displace that water and that water curve around it is acting back around it trying to decompress against it but has also added more water mass above the ball.
No, this is where we need to be careful to ensure you don't just entirely discard reality because you don't like.
In reality, the pressure below the ball. No amount of BS will change that.
The water is not being pushed around it to the top.
And it doens't matter what the ball is made of.
It can be a steel ball, an aluminium ball, or a ping pong ball full of air.
Regardless, the pressure is greater on the bottom of the ball than on the top.
The water is NOT magically going up to the top to push down harder.
The pressure remains greater below, and the water is pushing UP!
This is why all objects, when immersed in water will have their weight appear to reduce; because of the upwards buoyant force.
An object with the same density as water will appear weightless.
An object with a lower density will appear to have a negative weight and go up.
An object with a greater density will appear to have less weight, but still go down.
And this reduction in weight is based upon the amount of water displaced, not the mass of the object.
And this doesn't require the scale to be in water, so don't even try with that dishonest BS.
We can also do it with a spring scale above the water.
So air pressure, with a greater pressure below CANNOT be the reason things fall.
To make this simpler to visualise, imagine filling a bath to a certain height and marking the sides of that bath to water level.
You then drop a ball into that bath and it hits the bottom but you notice the water level line is now under water because the ball has displaced its own dense mass of water which now sits above it.
And notice that this happens regardless of what you are using.
You could use a steel ball, or a balloon.
In both cases, the water is displaced and goes up.
So looking at that you can see that it's not anything underneath the ball trying to push it up it's everything at the side of the ball trying to crush it up against the mass of water from the middle of the ball upwards crushing down and winning based on the amount of water.
The question is where is the water contacting the ball to try to move it?
In this case, pressure does only push, so we don't even need to discuss a pulling force for that.
But the water above the ball, over near the edge of the bath is NOT pushing on the ball.
Instead it is the water just around it.
We can also entirely remove this water from the equation by having the bath filled to the brim so when we put the ball in, the water spills over the top and our water level remains where it was.
It is ultimately the pressure gradient in the water, with the pressure greater below the ball, which is acting to push it up.
The greater pressure below overcomes the higher pressure above so there is a net upwards force from the water pressure.
As long as you understand that push is actually crush and not a direct push from beneath the entire ball.
It's important to understand this because this is the whole point of layering and stacking.
So as long as we understand that reality is wrong?
Again, the water pushes from all directions. This "crush" if it was exactly the same from all directions, would just push the ball inwards, keeping its centre of mass in the same position.
But it isn't perfectly uniform. There is a pressure gradient, with the pressure greater below.
That means overall the force is pushing up.
So lets not use an incredibly misleading idea of "crush". Instead, lets use what actually happens:
The water below pushes up. The water above pushes down.
But the push up from below is greater than the push down from above. This means that overall there is a push up on the object from the water.
And this applies regardless of fluid.
If there is a pressure gradient, the fluid pushes in a direction from high pressure to low pressure.
So for the atmosphere, it pushes from below to above, i.e. it pushes objects up.
Once again, Denpressure doesn't work.
No, it's absolutely fine.
Only if you don't care about your model working or matching reality at all.
So if you are happy with it being no more than pathetic, delusional garbage that in no way depicts reality, then yes its "fine".
But if you want a model which actually works to explain reality, you have nothing.
And it's taken you 865,977 (slight exaggeration
) posts to get to this obvious understanding.
No wonder you struggle.
No, that is just more dishonest BS from you.
Your model needs gravity to work.
You need to explain why the atmosphere stacks.
You need it every time you appeal to the dense mass of an object helping the pressure above overcome the resistance below to allow the object to move down.
The point is that your garbage doesn't work without gravity.
Without gravity, you have no reason for the atmosphere to stack at all.
Without gravity, you have no reason for an object to fall when the pressure is greater below.
Without gravity, you have no reason for an object denser than air to fall while one lighter than air is pushed up.