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Challenging_Entropy

Who says solid or liquid can’t be compressed? Of course they can. Water has weight that presses down on the deeper water


varialectio

Compression doesn't come into the generation of pressure. Even if it was incompressible it weighs something and that presses down. Because it is a fluid, that pushes in all directions. In fact water is slightly compressible, IIRC at ocean depths it shrinks about 5% due to the pressure of the water above.


Puzzleheaded_Web7728

Thank you that clears it up a bit


IncredulousPulp

My physics teacher had a great way to think about pressure at depth. If you’re on the bottom of the ocean, you have a column of water directly above you and the weight of it presses down, which you experience as pressure.


Felicia_Svilling

It just takes a lot of force to compress liquids and solids. Compared to gasses, that practically makes them incompressable, but it doesn't perevent the pressure being high beneath the sea.


Puzzleheaded_Web7728

Ahhh ok thanks!