Lets say i have two metal hemispheres made of iron and they are fitted together like so and a vacuum is made inside of them by the air being pumped out.
Normally, atmospheric pressure would keep these two hemispheres firmly pressed together, but what happens if I were to take them underground in a cave like pic related?
Would it still be as difficult to separate the hemispheres or would there be marginally less atmosphere in this situation to keep them held together? Would they just fall apart as soon as i walked into this lower air-pressure area?
Just depends on what the pressure is in that area.
>>8824496
The water levels being equal indicates that it is 1atm inside your little alcove there also. It would take a very low pressure environment to separate the spheres assuming there's a good seal on it. Air at 1atm is 14.7 psi relative to vacuum I believe. You would need the strength to overcome that over the whole surface of the sphere. At 0.5 atm air would weigh 7.35 psi, still pretty heavy.
>>8824496
It would be pretty much impossible to separate the hemispheres, if i recall correctly not even teams of horses linked up with ropes could pull them apart once a vacuum was established inside of there
It would be harder because air pressure is slightly higher down there, it has nothing to do with how much space there is.
>>8824496
How high are you right now?
>>8824582
Couldn't you just slide them apart?
And teams of horses? WTF?
>>8824824
>>8825573
As you can see in the picture, not even teams of horses linked by ropes could pull the hemispheres apart, the pressure of the atmosphere is really something, its amazing we aren't crushed by such pressure
>>8825573
Fucking kek'd
>>8825837
I wouldn't say amazing; were equalized by the same pressure on the inside
We were born into it; molded by it
>>8827414
you're a larger than average man