Comment on When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 month ago
No, you don’t. You’re adding more mass to your body. However: not as much as you would when breathing air
Comment on When you inhale helium from a balloon, do you weigh less?
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 month ago
No, you don’t. You’re adding more mass to your body. However: not as much as you would when breathing air
Hyperlon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are adding more mass to your body, but you are also decreasing your body’s density. So this should in fact make you lighter on the surface of the earth.
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Buoyancy is a thing, even in the regular old earth’ atmosphere. I figured to mention it but I didn’t want to give too complex of an answer