🔊 Acoustic Buoyancy is Real

Why you float in water, but not in air—and how sound may be to blame.

You’re at the beach. You wade out, lie back—and float. Effortlessly. But step back onto land, and suddenly you feel your full weight again.

Why?

Both air and water are fluids—they fill containers, flow around objects, and transmit pressure. So what makes one hold you up and the other let you sink? Most people say density. But that’s not the full story.

Here’s something strange: if you dive about 20 meters deep, that floating stops. Your body starts to sink. Not because the water changed—but because the pressure did. Buoyancy isn’t constant. It depends on how pressure is distributed vertically through the fluid.

What if that’s the real reason we feel weight in air, too?

What if gravity isn’t pulling us down? What if pressure from infrasound waves are pushing down on us—infrasound waves that travel up from the Earth, through the atmosphere, up into space?

This is the idea behind acoustic buoyancy—a core tenet of Acoustic Gravitic Theory, the wave-based model of gravity and planetary motion developed by Louis Lockett, Sr. It proposes that low-frequency waves, triggered by the Sun and transmitted through Earth’s crust and atmosphere, create vertical pressure gradients that "weigh down" objects through impedance mismatch, not mass-based attraction. In water, your body’s density and acoustic impedance typically allow you to resist this pressure—but once you descend below roughly 20 meters, that buoyant support fades, and you begin to sink. In air, this resistance doesn’t occur at all—so you feel the full force of weight.

Could this mean gravity is not a force, but a resonance mismatch? Could controlling frequency and impedance cancel out weight entirely?

Let’s dig into the physics of falling—and why you stop floating at 20 meters.

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