It was a most peculiar sensation. On getting out of the water, exiting the pool using the gently graduated steps, to re occupy my body and meet gravity. The transition was, just for a few moments, unmistakable and impossible to ignore. One moment, my body had felt weightless. The next, I met myself, and my (healthy) weight once more... Physics was never my strong point. But I've spent enough time in the water, to have gleaned a few nuggets. Whilst the electromagnetic spectrum and I never gotten to be chums, buoyancy is something of a dear friend, and one I try to connect with as much as possible... What neither myself nor my swimming student could quite believe was the degree of weightlessness we had just been enjoying, without even realising it. I recognise now a little better why it is that sometimes when I swim, I feel as though I'm flying: Buoyancy, or upthrust, is described as the force on a body when displaced in a volume of fluid and is in t...
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