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What about the weight of all of the water on earth?
It was not here during formation and came sometime in the first billion years. Certainly after what one would call the earth's creation. Would that not count as added weight?
Guess it depends on when " The earth was created" starts.

It is still hard to comprehend how all life, in all its forms, have not added to the weight total , when the planet was devoid of life during its early period.
First life was single cell, with no measurable mass. Through its evolution has all of its mass been borrowed from the earths or its own mass?
I realize you can't make something from nothing ( that is another debate ) but wouldn't logic imply that there was a tipping point where exisiting plant life and others supported the creation of the rest as a trade off?
Not that all of life since the earths creation would still only add the tiniest fraction to the total of the earths mass/weight.

Of course living processes would add to the mass of the Earth - I was not contesting that. The simplest example would be plants converting sunlight into chemical energy, thus creating a mass equivalent that would essentially be additional mass.

What he was saying is that human bone mass has added to Earth's total. This is nonsense. I don't have any specific figures, but I can confidently say that you would be hard-pressed to find calcium in your bones that was not already present on Earth at the time of your birth.

I was going to say it'd weigh less, but then I realised my logic was stupid and completely wrong. Ignore my vote.

Edit - My theory was about losing gases. I read up on something called "Atmospheric escape", which apparently shows that some of our atmosphere is escaping into space. Although compared to the meteorites hitting Earth, the effect is most likely minimal :p

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Are you ****ing serious, anyone that uses that argument needs a slap and an education.




Let me explain to you why that logic is heavily flawed (pun intended).

A lot of architecture? So what, if you're referring to the fact that the earth's surface is covered in large buildings and vehicles that are omnipresent, then think this....... Where were all the resources to create this architecture? In the Earth to begin with, we just dug it up and moulded it to our demands.

Wasn't there some rule where like matter stays the same and it can not grow, or decompose, so I would say the weight remains the same since we are in a closed system

Well, the earth can gain weight from space dust and meteorites entering the atmosphere. We also lose weight from whatever we launch into outer space. Yet the earth can still gain weight.

I suppose it would weigh more, Did you see herds of wilder-beast soaring majestically across the fields? No, I don't know if there was less life forms then, but there was certainly less Humans. Then the Earth is hit by space debris and all kinds of rubbish from outer space and what not. But the truth is, we can never really know well, Have you ever tried to weigh the Earth? I'm also sure we cannot weigh the Earth when it was made, we missed the boat on that one.

I would assume that the Earth now weighs much more due to the massive exponential growth of humanity that has happened.

READ! The law of conservation of mass states that matter is neither made nor destroyed, meaning, in a closed system, no additional mass can be created. Which in turn means that in and of itself, humanity can have no bearing on the weight of the earth.

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Wait, I just realized, this is a trick question...

The earth can't "weigh" more or less, because the earth can't "weigh" at all. It's weight is 0. By definition, an object's weight is the mass of an object multiplied by the acceleration it's experiencing. (w=ma) So, we would be taking an object's mass times the acceleration of gravity on earth. However, the earth has gravity acting upon it in all directions (which is the gravity we've come to know and love) and therefore cannot accelerate, meaning it's acceleration is 0. Anything times 0 = 0 meaning that earth's weight is 0.

tl;dr: semantics, condescending explanation, Earth has no weight