Every day hundreds of living beings are born and how does the earth take this weight.
2006-08-16 16:45:34 · 28 answers · asked by Shilpa S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
No.
The total mass is conserved. What ever we take we will eventually return to Earth. All the chemical that make us up will eventually return to Earth. Is it not incredible that the atoms that make us up are over 4 billion of years old?
2006-08-16 16:49:10 · answer #1 · answered by Edward 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, because they already existed prenatally. Something else (food) was converted in the mom into developing the baby. Being 8 pounds in the womb is the same 8 pounds out of the womb.
On the other hand, the earth picks up all kinds of space dust every day and that DOES add to its weight.
2006-08-16 16:51:47 · answer #2 · answered by Claude 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The total available mass on this Universe is constant and this is applicable to earth too. While hundreds of living beings are born it is just that mass of someother form, either living or non-living, is replaced by the mass of the living beings born.
2006-08-16 17:41:00 · answer #3 · answered by 2_b_or_not_2_b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babies are made of the stuff their mothers eat and drink. The stuff their mothers eat comes from the earth. So the answer is no, the earth does not weigh more, because the same stuff is still there, just in a different form.
2006-08-16 16:49:27 · answer #4 · answered by Pablo Fanques 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-11-25 21:53:33 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of the answers are correct concerning people: the Earth doesn't change mass due to animal birth and death. But the Earth DOES become heavier due to small particles from space constantly hitting the Earth. We see them as shooting stars. Now, this is pretty darn small compared to the Earth, but it nevertheless is adding to our Earth's mass.
2006-08-16 16:57:21 · answer #6 · answered by A professor (thus usually wrong) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, you're right in your fears!! The number of people will increase earth's mass in an exponential series so great one day that the whole planet's crust will implode into the molten nucleus originating a thermonuclear reaction that will explote molten **** all over the universe, each particle of **** will be full of temperature resistant bacteriae which will in turn lodge into any planets they may touch and prosper and grow.....all over again..... perpetuating thus the human species all over the Universe.
2006-08-16 17:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by Alex S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The weight does not change, because every human being is made from stuff already on the earth, and matter is conserved.
2006-08-16 17:15:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If anything the earth gets heavier because its gravity attracts matter to it, like meteors, particles, etc.
The babies are just made from atoms already on earth, so it should make little difference.
2006-08-16 16:52:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, birth didn't add anything that wasn't already on earth. However, earth weight does increase as meteorites enter earth, but the impact is small.
2006-08-19 02:59:44 · answer #10 · answered by Deven K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋