Would you drown in a bottomless ball pit?

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Imagine a bottomless ball pit, just to clarify, it means a bottomless pit filled with uniform hollow balls. From "experimentation" I know that there is still airflow at the bottom of a 0.5 meter tall ball pit. I assume that this is because air can still flow in the gaps between the balls.

But in a bottomless pit, can there be a situation where there will be no available pass for air to reach a certain depth. Also, related, can there be a case of not total lack of air, but reduced air flow to the point of not allowing human life at a certain depth (not enough new oxygen will come to replace the CO2 released by the human).

So in other words, in a bottomless pit filled with uniform spheres, is there a depth where all routes for the air to reach will be cut off? If not, assuming that at a certain depth $h$ there is $f$ air-flow, is there a depth where the available airflow will be $f_0 << f$? (Not sure how to mathematically properly define "airflow").

The standard ball size is (according to Wikipedia) is

no larger than 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter

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Since the kissing number of spheres is 12, and spheres can only touch at a point, I'd say that there always exists a path for the air to take, no matter the depth, i.e. a packing of sphere's won't be airtight.

In terms of airflow, I guess that depends on how it's defined, but I think I'd be worried about the weight in balls crushing me before I worried about running out of air.

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If you assume that there even can be air within the pit this means it is contained in an atmosphere with oxygen. Any such atmosphere, it seems reasonable, has finite volume (I guess I'm assuming it doesn't cross between atmospheres...). Then if the balls are constant size you have an immediate contradiction to the supposition. Else you're assuming you can change the size of the balls and now I think you can design a fractal to block any flow.