Because there's no force being imparted on them to pull them downward in your worldview.

That is not a sensical answer to my question. If there is no force being imparted on them (other than the intrinsic force of weight and the interplay of that weight and the weight of the media displaced), why should they go east or west?

Gravity accounts for this

Gravitation. And, no - gravitation can't account for anything if it isn't real. I appreciate that in imagination it appears to account for it, but in reality it doesn't and the phenomenon of falling is still caused by weight. Even if gravitation were real, not all things fall, and archimedes had figured out and formally described why millennia ago (almost 2 millennia before the fiction of gravitation was first invoked by newton purely to solve an astronomical math problem).

The cause is made clear in the equation. Weight is all there is, and all that is needed.

I honestly don't know what to say to that other than it's word salad

When you don't understand, the best thing to begin with is to ask questions! The more specific the question the more likely you are to get a specific answer you're seeking.

Throwing up your hands and declaring "word salad" is only appropriate when it is word salad - and that will only be established by asking such questions about it.

What didn't make sense to you? Were the words unclear? Their meaning? Ask for clarification! Be specific! Communication is hard, and takes repeated and concerted effort on both sides!

That aside, physics isn't for everybody - some of us genuinely enjoy it and have a natural aptitude.

I know that you are required to dismiss my views as "insane" and give up trying to communicate immediately by your dogmas, but ask yourself - is that the scientific thing to do? Is declaring every view that contradicts your own as "insane" and then sticking your fingers in your ears and running away the smart thing to do? Especially on a forum devoted to above average rational skepticism and investigation...

Just food for thought. I also wish you well.

Because there's no force being imparted on them to pull them downward in your worldview.

That is not a sensical answer to my question. If there is no force being imparted on them (other than the intrinsic force of weight and the interplay of that weight and the weight of the media displaced), why should they go east or west?

Gravity accounts for this

Gravitation. And, no - gravitation can't account for anything if it isn't real. I appreciate that in imagination it appears to account for it, but in reality it doesn't and the phenomenon of falling is still caused by weight. Even if gravitation were real, not all things fall, and archimedes had figured out and formally described why millennia ago (almost 2 millennia before the fiction of gravitation was first imagined).

The cause is made clear in the equation. Weight is all there is, and all that is needed.

I honestly don't know what to say to that other than it's word salad

When you don't understand, the best thing to begin with is to ask questions! The more specific the question the more likely you are to get a specific answer you're seeking.

Throwing up your hands and declaring "word salad" is only appropriate when it is word salad - and that will only be established by asking such questions about it.

What didn't make sense to you? Were the words unclear? Their meaning? Ask for clarification! Be specific! Communication is hard, and takes repeated and concerted effort on both sides!

That aside, physics isn't for everybody - some of us genuinely enjoy it and have a natural aptitude.

I know that you are required to dismiss my views as "insane" and give up trying to communicate immediately by your dogmas, but ask yourself - is that the scientific thing to do? Is declaring every view that contradicts your own as "insane" and then sticking your fingers in your ears and running away the smart thing to do? Especially on a forum devoted to above average rational skepticism and investigation...

Just food for thought. I also wish you well.