Why do we not feel air pressure?

Question

Why do we not feel air pressure when it is so great and that it is exerting on us?
Issit becos of the air pressure in us?
Please justify your answer.

Answer 1

The pressure on our bodies is balanced exactly by the pressure inside our lungs. Since the rest of our body is fluid or solid (and therefore not compressible like gases) we do not feel the pressure.

If the pressure changes, such as in a fast elevator, on a climbing plane or during a scuba dive, the pressure inside takes some time to equalize with the changing pressure outside. In those cases we do feel it, sometimes dramatically and painfully.

Answer 2

We don't feel the air pressure because we are used to it since our birth. If you travel in a aeroplane you should have noticed that your ears go blocked and you can't hear any thing properly and you will suddenly feel light when you get down the plane. So there should be day to day change to feel the air pressure, but air pressure remains constant on the surface of the earth. You feel the temperature only when it changes from season to season, not when it is constant.

Answer 3

The pressure on our bodies is balanced exactly by the pressure inside our lungs. Since the rest of our body is fluid or solid (and therefore not compressible like gases) we do not feel the pressure.

If the pressure changes, such as in a fast elevator, on a climbing plane or during a scuba dive, the pressure inside takes some time to equalize with the changing pressure outside. In those cases we do feel it, sometimes dramatically and painfully.

Answer 4

We don't feel air pressure is because out body is strong enough to withstand the air pressure. For every reaction, there be an equal opposite reaction due to the Newton's law. In other words, all forces such as air pressure are balanced out therefore we will not feel air pressure which also means no net force.

Answer 5

We don't notice air pressure so long as it stays stable, because air is all around us all the time.

You'd notice it briefly if it wasn't there, although you might get distracted by your lungs exploding and blood boiling as you expire messily in vacuum.

But we do notice changes in air pressure. Sometimes we can feel it - for example, your ears popping when you fly. Other times you can see it - air is less dense and doesn't disperse light as much at high altitude meaning you can see more clearly over distance.

Some people also claim to feel subtle changes in air pressure related to oncoming storms and such (though the damn big storm clouds might be a bit of a giveaway).

Answer 6

Because our bodies exert an equal force pushing outward. Our bodies are in equalibrium at this air pressure.

Now go up in a non-pressurized airplane or dive down in the water and you will start to feel the pressure difference.

Answer 7

We do not feel air pressure bcoz the blood in our bodies flows at a pressure slightly more than atm.Thats y when u go 2 high places nose bleeding starts bcoz air pressure decreases the blood xerts 2 much p and so nose bleeding occurs

Answer 8

You do. You feel the air pressure right now, but since you have always lived in it, you do not feel it. If you are to go into a lower or higher pressure situation you most certainly feel it. But we all are accustomed to out One Atmosphere of pressure.

Answer 9

We go through life every day with all the air above us exerting pressure onto our bodies. In short, we're too used to it to notice anything.

Answer 10

Air pressure is not very great. Great is subjective though, if you say air pressure is great, then "solid pressure" in us is also very great.