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Why and how does atmosphere exist? Shouldn't all oxygen (and everthing else) fall down due to gravity?

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Why and how does atmosphere exist? Shouldn't all oxygen (and everthing else) fall down due to gravity?

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A current can be just a current, you don’t have to call it a wave. Oceans have currents too, they are not waves either.

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