A closer look
Science has officially vindicated your unbearable travel partner: planes literally turn human bodies into pressurized gas chambers. Thanks to Boyle's Law, as ambient pressure drops in a climbing aircraft, the trapped volume of gas in your stomach and intestines inevitably expands by up to thirty percent. This biological ballooning leaves passengers with two terrible options: suffer agonizing cramps or aggressively pollute the recycled cabin air. It is an unavoidable anatomical reality that turns every long-haul flight into a subtle battle of gastrointestinal warfare.
