Why don’t we get crushed by the mass of the atmosphere?

Posted 2025-01-03, The Times/The Sunday Times Headlines

The Earth’s atmosphere may seem too lightweight to crush anything on the ground, but every day a mass of atmosphere presses down on the surface of the globe. With the atmosphere reaching about 100km high, the total mass of the Earth’s atmosphere comes to 5.1 billion billion kilograms. So the atmosphere exerts about 1kg of... read full story

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