This statement is incorrect. Pressure directly affects materials. Its just without pluging the hole with a part of your body you don’t actually feel the difference. In static 10 million atmospheres stuff like metal should show some measurable shrinkage. The larger the object, the more shrinkage you will measure.
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Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 2 weeks agoStatic pressure on it’s own doesn’t really “do” anything though. You could have the thinest piece of solid material with 10 million atmospheres on either side and the material doesn’t care since forces cancel out. Difference in pressure is where shit goes pop or crush depending on the direction.
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Brosplosion@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yes, you are technically right. Little too much hyperbole on my part, but the bulk modulus of solids in typically in the tens to hundreds of gigapascals
Taldan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Divers frequently go to pressures of 500+ PSI without issues directly from the pressure
Nearly all the issues at that depth are from the physiology of breathing gasses at that pressure
wewbull@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
That’s 34atm or about 350m. Nobody is diving that deep. [The world record is 330m].(www.advanceddivermagazine.com/pascal.html)