How do rain clouds defy gravity?
In: Physics
What the other commenters didn’t quite mention is that the air has weight. The clouds aren’t sinply floating, they are like a pillow laying on top of a bed, it’s not that there’s no gravity it’s that the bed is simply heavier and holds the pillow up. A standard cumulus cloud weighs around 1.1 million pounds but each square inch of air is about 14 pounds, so all the air between the cloud and the ground plus the entire width of the cloud would be near billions of pounds, the cloud just doesn’t sink through that since it’s lighter and most importantly *less dense*
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