Latter day saints - do you know how heavy a book made of gold is?

Question

i mean c'mon!! Thats seriously heavy - no way he coulda dragged that tome home! You go on about how super duper old pa smith was - what about jesus or moses or noah? Loadsa prophets not getting a mention who did great things. Im waiting for the prophet Jimmy to find the book of the secret of Irn Bru!

Answer 1

hahahahahahahaahahahah good one!

Answer 2

If you spend enough time in any LDS church you will hear about all the prophets and we even talk about and learn of (gasp) Jesus Christ. In fact, this whole year we are studying the Old Testament in Sunday School. Not a whole lot of Pa Smith in there!

As for the gold plates, you have to remember that they were not SOLID gold (and may have even been an alloy, not pure gold, my own opinion. Also, Joseph Smith described the plates as having the “appearance of gold,” so maybe there were actually gold, maybe they weren't), but were plates bound together. True, the plates probably were not as thin as aluminum foil, but the whole thing was not a solid brick of gold.

I think it was some type of alloy, that was gold in color and partially gold in composition. The whole thing probably weighed 60-80 pounds. Heavy by any standard, but not impossible for Pa Smith to lug around.

Answer 3

maybe it was a childs book consisting of 4 pages, and the gold was smashed real thin-that is not so heavy. Suposedly its buried in the hill Camora (or however its spelled) in Palmyra NY....do they really think all that gold would be buried there and no excavators went searchin for it? They would be worht billions!!!

Answer 4

The wikipedia article hypthesizes that it was a particular alloy, since, you're right, it didn't weigh what a pure gold book would have weighed.

Answer 5

wooo irn bru!

Answer 6

dont you mean IRN BRU ?

Answer 7

cool.