Not sure if you are playing games here... I hope not, but you purposely snipped my quote to make your point.You said
Air which is less dense that water does not rise up against a falling column of water despite the different densities of the two.
Air lift pumps transport water in the opposite direction.
A simple air pump from a koi pond or large aquarium can easily lift contained water upwards for 12 feet or so using the bubbles it creates. The finer the bubble the greater the volume that can be lifted.
The water despite being more dense than the air rises. The exact opposite to what goes on in a trompe.
These things are repeatable, observable and go against your claim.
How did we get to this. Oh yes
To which I replied.
To which you replied.
Just to keep in mind what this is all about.
So I've provided examples of how it is the push force that is doing the pushing that provides pressure not a container and shown things less dense than others can and do move in the opposite direction to what . Water density in steam and liquid is equal as it is the exact same substance unless of course they are in reality different substances despite appearances and behaviour.
Whatever is pushing the water vapour upwards and the liquid water downwards and visa versa at the same instant it isn't known.
Point is until there is a push force brought into play nothing moves.
Our bodies are living proof that air does not always rise through water and water does not always fall through air. They move through each other as they are being pushed by something we have no comprehension of and are not looking for. All we have as I mentioned earlier is endless speculation within the confines of accepted published stated ad nauseum scientific 'norms'.
This dome idea seems to be based in lights we see over our heads with our visual apparatus.
When we look straight ahead in a long straight corridor the walls floor and ceiling all seem to come to a vanishing point right int the middle of our vision. We know this isn't actually true as we have just walked down this corridor and it is perfectly level.
If we lie on the floor and do the same looking ahead and we have a friend walk away from our position they will appear to disappear feet first. We again establish this is not actually happening as we can simply stand up and their feet come back into view.
Well fine we have all heard it all before. However when we stand or sit and look straight out to the horizon on a clear day we see the sky appear to meet the ocean in the exact same manner as the ceiling and floor of the corridor meet at the vanishing point but as the eyes are only constrained by their physical limit not the artificial limit of the corridor walls we do not see the 'sides' of our vision converging on the same vanishing point thus we are able to see a level horizon quite clearly and with complete accuracy whereas in the confines of the corridor we cannot.
If we then raise our eyes to look at the sky with no horizon to guide us we have now lost three points of the compass so too speak. The walls of the corridor are missing and now the floor (ocean) is missing so based on just the ceiling the brain delivers an image of a curving sky as this is all the eyes and it have to go on.
I have been inside some large as in very high buildings in my time and the exact same thing happens when I raise my head to look at the roof.
For this reason I feel whatever the sky is and all bets are on as far as I am concerned it is not a dome. The dome shape lives only within the limitations of my eyes and brain and I feel sure they have been further limited by the constant 'education' they have and are still being pummelled with over many decades.
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This is the image our brains build from our binocular eyes input. It is also the image each eye delivers its just the brain that filters out our noses and delivers a single image we can use.
The eyes and brain do this for good reason. We are visual level dwellers and we need to know where level is as we orient ourselves to level.
You left out:
Absent of extemporaneous variables
What you are missing here is the fact that you have a denser material (the water) which is now acting as an upper barrier, pushing the less dense material (the air) downwards. This will increase the pressure as it is being pushed to smaller area, around a corner, until finally it is released upwards, the first chance it gets, where it collects by rising through the water that was pushing down, but is now moving horizontally in a confined space, and then equalizing with a medium of equivalent density.
Submarines work exactly because of this principle. More air to water, less density, go up. Less air to water, more density, go down.
Again, these things are repeatable, observable, and are true 100% of the time.