(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Just like the Title Says: Dose the Earth weigh more Now or when it was first Created?

Ignoring the law of conservation of mass, think for a minute. Let's say you have a man and a woman, man is 185 lbs, woman is 132. They have a child. The child is born in at 7 pounds. The world just gained an extra 7 pounds, because the child was created.

However, I do like how you took the angle of gravity into the effect of weight.

:wtf:

What do you think happens during 9 months of pregnancy? A baby magically forms in a closed off system by creating mass? No. In short (for what is applicable here) the mother increases her amount of food consumed in order to provide additional sustenance for her offspring. Meaning: She eats food, she gets nutrients, then baby gets nutrients, then baby grows (over time of course). The matter that the baby is made up of comes from the mother. Not from no where. The womb is not a portal to another dimension, no matter what they taught you in health class.

Humanity has no bearing on this as the mass humans are made up can't just be created as mass is a constant it can not be created nor destroyed (Well there is one way-read the end of my post).
So only with the loss of gases due to the destruction of the ozone layer (ozone being O[3]) part of the outer atmosphere, has there been a loss to the earths mass.
Also there is the very minute value of man made structures being sent into space.
Next there is the issue of when the water came? there is no proof of this only theories with the most recognised theory being that Earth did not have water present in the beginning it came sometime in the 1st 5 million years.
Next the point of the space matter constantly hitting earth which in my opinion would counter-act my 2nd and 3rd points.
Lastly the point on mass/matter being a constant; matter can be destroyed but only when it comes into direct contact with anti-matter which result in total annhilation. And as scientists believe that the only time there has been anti-matter present in our solar system is during 'the big bang' so there evidently has been no mass lost to total annhilation. So in conclusion this arguement is heavily one sided and i would say the Earth now ways more.

If you read all of this thanks because i spent the time to write it.

The sperm finds its way into the seed, then wait 9 months and you will see a child..

When did i say that the materials we are made of magically appear when we are born?

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lol i know thats why i said "Some people think that.." ask around i yo will hear that answer.lol

It weighs the same. You cannot create or destroy matter or energy, so the weight of the Earth will be the same today and the same 4.5 billion years ago.

It does in America with all us fat ass' walking around! lol

Hard to tell.

This has what to do with what?



"You would have to remember that when humans live they are at regular 130-230 Lbs Regularly and when they Die their Bodies Decompose, so there body is just bones with no meat on it and the bones probably weigh around 10lbs in all. We have millions of people being born everyday and at the same dieing everyday"

You are inferring that humans leave behind ~10 lbs of bone when they die. Where did the materials that form the bone come from? You seem to be suggesting that they appear out of thin air when children are created.

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Alright people, I've been too lazy to give a thorough answer as of yet, but here you go:


The first thing I have to address is the nature of the question. When someone asks for the "weight" of an object we have to know 3 different values to give an answer. We need to have a larger mass generating a gravitational field with which to compare the mass of the Earth and the distance between their centers of mass.

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I am therefore assuming that the OP meant to say the mass (amount of matter) of the Earth when he posted the question.


As many of you have said, matter cannot be created or destroyed. Most of the matter on and in Earth today is the same matter that was on or in Earth a billion years ago. It is constantly changing, being transformed, and otherwise altered, however the net amount remains the same. What most of you seem to be forgetting, however, is that the Earth is bombarded by debris and energy (from the sun and otherwise which has a small mass equivalent E=mc²) from space that the Earth retains. When compared to the energy emitted by the Earth and the matter sent out into space, the latter is obviously minuscule. I therefore have no doubt in mind that the Earth contains more mass, and therefore would "weigh" more today when compared to a massive object like the sun than it did when the modern Earth was first formed.

I would say it weighs more. Lets put it at the beginning of this newly formed planetesimal. That was the start. Technically our moon is part of our Earth, that once collided against another planetesimal/asteroid. So when is the starting point here? Many Meteorites have struck Earth, including one that was more than a football field in length, so technically that's more mass to be accounted for.