A boat in zero gravity : would it sink?

[DimPrawn]

If a boat was floating on the sea out in space, would it sink?

[TimberWolf]

If a boat was floating on the sea out in space, would it sink?

Assuming you enclose the boat and sea (of water?) in a box and assume normal pressures and temperature, yes, the boat would sink. In all directions.

[Pickle2]

If a boat was floating on the sea out in space, would it sink?

How would you notice?

[Mich the Tester]

A sea in zero gravity?

What would hold all the water molecules together?

[gingerjedi]

Yes it would, the boat and the water will attract each other assuming no other forces are present.

[Churchill]

A sea in zero gravity?

What would hold all the water molecules together?

What holds them together without gravity?

Surface tension.

Hth.

[Mich the Tester]

What holds them together without gravity?

Surface tension.

Hth.

I don't think it would work, but anyway, the temperature in space is so low that the water would be frozen. The ship would sit on top of a lump of ice.

[TimberWolf]

I don't think it would work, but anyway, the temperature in space is so low that the water would be frozen. The ship would sit on top of a lump of ice.

On top?

[Mich the Tester]

On top?

well, not on top, but on it.

[Churchill]

I don't think it would work, but anyway, the temperature in space is so low that the water would be frozen. The ship would sit on top of a lump of ice.

You're assuming that heat is only conducted, transferred via convection.

Radiation, convection and conduction are all methods of heat transfer.

I think the water would boil away if not contained by some form of pressure vessel.