Let’s say someone is trying to get the world record for deepest dive without equipment. They inhale all the air they can and start going down, but as they go, their lungs decrease in size even though they’re still holding the same amount of air. Surely all the air being compressed has to go somewhere at some point, right? Am I missing some really basic concept?
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Assuming they can continue to hold their breath and their lungs don’t explode, the gas compresses.
The space between the gas atoms decreases. But the overall about of gas atoms stays the same, with the exception of the exchange for breathing
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