Re: Problem with a Barometer

[Chuck Britton <britton@ODIE.NCSSM.EDU>]

This same 'ultra-vacuum' must be what allows tall trees to suck water
from the roots way up further than the 10 meters that atmospheric
pressure can 'push'????

       more ;-)   {or NOT!}
> Apparently you've successfully created an "ultravacuum."  We all know that
> the "vacuum ain't nothin'" these days.  Most likely you have simply
> managed to reduce the level of vacuum fluctuations in the region above
> your mercury column a la the Casimir force.  I say, publish before the
> effect perishes.
>
> John
>
> P.S. For those who don't know me well enough, allow me to add ;-)
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