when you are sitting at your desk, why don't you feel the air pressure?

Answer 1

You always feel air pressure, so you are used to it and can never detect it. Its the same thing of asking a fish why can't it feel the water. Does this make sense?

Answer 2

The air pressure doesn't change very quickly or very much when you are at your desk. The solid and liquid parts of your body resist compression from the air pressure, and the gas parts (in the lungs, in the inner ear, dissolved in the blood etc.) are at the same pressure as the air outside. In essence, you don't feel any net force, so you don't notice the air pressure.

If you were to dramatically change the pressure on your body, by diving underwater or changing your altitude, you would quickly notice the pressure changes.

Answer 3

The human body is very insensitive to air pressure (apart from when it changes and your ears pop)
At the top of a mountail where it may be 1/3 of that ar sea level and at 300ft under water say in a diving bell where it is 21 times that at sea level - we don't feel it.

Our body is liquid and solid which is not compressible. If we had enclosed gas pockets in our body, then we would definitely feel pressure.

Answer 4

You do feel air pressure.. ur on crack

Answer 5

You do but you are used to it.