• Otter@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I’m not sure it would, unless the person’s volume also changes considerably.

    Buoyant force comes from a displaced volume of fluid (the outside air in this case)

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      Well your guts and skin and other tissues do have some elasticity, I suppose it is possible that a large gas bubble might be able to expand your abdomen slightly.

      We’re very much into spherical cows in a vacuum territory here. I don’t think there’s any way this would be realistically measurable,just fun to think about.

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        It would have to expand your abdomen slightly, assuming you don’t have access to a fourth dimension.