Exploring Atmospheric Pressure Through Otto von Guericke's Experiment

Skibidi vibes with Otto von Guericke’s water meter experiment, lowkey the dankest way to understand atmospheric pressure. This goon took Aristotle's horror vacui and flipped it, showing that air has weight and is a sigma force in nature. Picture this: a long tube, one end in water, the other sealed tight. Von Guericke's air pump goes to work, evacuating air like a toilet flush. As air vanishes, pressure drops, revealing the power of the atmosphere. His work, along with Torricelli's mercury tubes, ships us into the world of physics, proving vacuums are real and atmospheric pressure is no joke.