If you sneeze and fart at the same time, does a vacuum form in your stomach?

Question

Some people are soooo serious. Have a laugh people. You won't explode.

Answer 1

I went to school with a kid who could fart on demand, by creating a vacuum and sucking up air... Kinda filthy but fascinating as a child.

Answer 2

No, you cannot produce a vacuum if you fart and sneeze at the same time.

When you let one fly your body is releasing a build up of pressure. Since it's pressure that's being released it will not form a negative space for a vacuum to exist.

When you sneeze your body first draws in a large volume of air to produce the force needed to sneeze. After you've sneezed you've released the air you've breathed in, much like releasing that little cramp in your bowels.

Since both of these bodily functions produce a positive pressure in your body before commencing they do not create a vacuum as a result.

Also, ZahirJ above me answered correctly when he stated that your body functions stop when you sneeze.

Answer 3

Ahh, the old vacuum-in-the-stomach question. This is genuinely an important subject of scientific concern, and has attracted the curiosity of great minds over the centuries.

One of the earliest to attack this matter was James Boyle, he of "Boyle's Law" (and no, dear ones, that is not a gritty reality legal thriller series on BBC). Much of Boyle's early life consisted of the desperate attempt to generate a state of vacuum, which he had observed early between the ears of Cowie, the family's nanny. Only when he ceased attempting to generate a pair of empty light blue eyes inside a bell jar and accepted that nothingness itself was the state he sought did he finally succeed.

(Cowie, however, lived a wonderful life. She was aptly named for the udder-ly astonishing presence she brought before her, and with an utterly empty head and outstanding features, she eventually became wife of the neighboring Squire. Boyle's father brokered the deal, it is said, for one of the Squire's better cooks.)

Now this episode is vital to the history of a vacuous question and answer period, students, you will please attend further to the answer, thank you.

Boyle, a founder of the Royal Society in the mid-1600's, never succeeded in searching for the answer to the stomach question. Too many people got bubonic plague and wouldn't help with his experiments, while the others in his august group went December on him and died.

The next landmark researcher in this historic pursuit was none other than Benjamin Franklin. Old Ben, as the ladies of the court of Louis XVI called him, made a point of testing royal stomachers to see if they might be of value in resolving the most vexing scientific puzzle of the age. All he got for his efforts was a whalebone in the eye.

The world waited, always eager for news of progress, until at last American astronauts began making longer space flights that outlived the effects of the enemas the early adventurers had had to undergo before liftoff. Here, in space, at last! Vacuum calls to vacuum.

The best chance for a truly scientific study of the matter seemed to be during the long trip of Apollo 13 to the moon, around, and back.

Oh, NO! A disastrous accident made all the astronauts fart, and the fire aboard ship grew greater. Later the fellows would sneeze, but by then each had installed a pass-the-gas fitting to help with the depleted retro-rockets, and so the world's best hope for an answer to this age-old issue was lost.

And so, dear lady, we suffer still in the bondage of darkness and ignorance, and hope some day soon, some enlightened specialist will at last release us from our trying tension.

For those considering this discourse as an entry into a scientific journal, here is the abstract to submit to the editors:

Good grief, you silly twit!

Answer 4

It depends if you sneezed and sharted at the same time. That can make a difference.

Answer 5

actually it's not possible to do anything while you sneeze, as all your bodily functions come to a stop. nevertheless the answer is no, there are too many valves seperating your mouth from your anus - but i'm beginning to doubt that.

Answer 6

No. However, if you laugh, cry and sneeze at the same time, you will pop your eyeballs out of their sockets.

Answer 7

I do a lot of both, and the only its happened is that I ruined a pair of boxers. So I say nooooooooooooooooooo,you really need to get a new life though, or walk your dog....ect........

Answer 8

At the time of the attack, you may get a turtle head sticking out of your butt if you need to go #2

Answer 9

The next time i have chili i'll sprinkle extra pepper on it. I'll report back afterwards.....if the dual blasts don't take out the computer.

Answer 10

No that is not true. I've done both at the same time and nothing happened to me! I think???