Your height varies or not?

Classical Mechanics Level 2

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You are shorter when lying down Don't know :) Your height is same when you are standing up/lying down You are shorter when standing up

Mahesh Sk by Mahesh SK , 36, India

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Mahesh Sk
May 1, 2014

You are shorter when standing up than when lying down! (~1 inch). When we are standing, the tug of gravity compresses the soft tissue between the vertebrae of our spines, and when we lie down, our spines expand.

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Although it is a good question, it remains to be quite misleading...that can been shown evident by the minuscule number of solvers that exist thus far.

Victor Powell - 7 years ago

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