re: re:Thank you for your answer.
You wrote:
You misstating the objection. It's not that it's impossible that atmosphere molecules could escape from the Earth. But rather that the quantity of escaping molecules is tiny in comparison to the total volume of earth's atmosphere and other factors- e.g. volcanoes able of bletching millions of tons of gases in a day, etc .
I understand that the Earth is big and the quantity of gas that escapes is small compared to the volume of the atmosphere.
I also understand that that there is a continual increase of molecules into the atmosphere from sources such as the volcanoes and space.
During the eons of time that the Earth has existed, these gas increases and decreases have been in approximate balance.
The same kind of balance has existed in the amount of radiation that the Earth has received an expelled.
The exception to this balance rule was at the very early stages of the Earth’s formation, that is when everything was much hotter and more radiation and molecules left the Earth’s atmosphere. How rapidly the planet cooled, depended partly to the escaping radiation but also to a large extent on the quantity and time that the molecules took to disappear into space.
The resulting condition was the above stated balance that has lasted millions of years.
If the said balace is interfered with, then drastic things can happen.
Perhaps you can calculate what it will take to tip the said balance.