can u swim in outerspace or is it just floating?

Answer 1

If you were floating in a vessel with air inside, yes, you could swim. Air is much lighter than water so you wouldn't make much progress unless you here holding big paddles or something. It would take some practice to avoid tumbling too. Sounds fun.

Answer 2

Its just floating as to swim you need to have a liquid to push against to give friction, as there is next to no gravity in space nothing has mass so you would just float around until you hit something.

Answer 3

You would just be floating, however if you managed to push against a static object you would gain some velosophy although the same amount of energy placed against it would be halfed. That'll be just about the only way you;d be able to swim... unless you just acted it out whist floating?

Answer 4

It is not even floating because floating is buoyancy on a surface. In space you are weightless and therefore are not floating nor are you suspended. You cannot navigate without a propulsion device nor move about without another mass to push off of. Besides you won't have any air to breathe.

Answer 5

You can only swim if there's something to push against, that's what makes you go forward when you're in water, you're pushing the water away from you. As space is (almost) a vacuum, there's nothing to push away from. However there's also very very little friction so if you ever started moving forward you'd carry on at that speed pretty much forever.

Answer 6

In order to swim, you need water to push back on, which makes you move forward. In outer space there is no matter to interact with. You just float.

Answer 7

Not me. I'm afraid of heights.

When you are in water it is mostly just floating.
You could "swim" in space. However, swimming involves Newton's third law of motion, action-reaction, and when you swim in water you are pushing against the water. In space, the particle to push against are few and far between, so you cant get much reaction force.
Ergo, you can "swim" through space, but you won't move very far.

Answer 8

Just floating. There is nothing to push against in space.

Answer 9

Nearly all forms of motion require a backward push on the environment. A car's tyres meed to push backwards on the road surface. A swimmer's hands need to push water backwards in order to go forwards. A helicopter pushes air downwards in order to rise.
In space there is nothing (or very nearly nothing, unless you count one particle per cubic metre) so there is nothing to push on. So, no, it's not swimming.
Hence the need for space-walkers to have tie-lines, gas propulsion packs and/or magnetic boots etc.

Answer 10

No we cant swim in outer space because swiming requires some medium like water and outer space contains no medium.... Actually its the newton's third law... if we push water back the water pushes us forth but if there is no medium we cant push anything back hence we cannot swim.