Is the earth any heavier now than it was when it was first formed?

Question

OK. All of the metals are formed under the earths surface, all the human bodies at full weight die, decompose, and more are born each and every minute. The trees we cut down to build houses, furniture, paper, etc are manufactured. Some of these of course are still around, some have burned into ashes, to go back into the earth. I think you can get the jest of what I'm trying to ask? Are we any heavier (the earth) now then eons ago when it was formed???

Answer 1

This question has been answered with a high degree of confidence by cosmologists and astrophysicists, therefore it is a topic philosophers are finished with.
To answer your question, first some of your premises have to be corrected. The metals don't form beneath the earths surface. Any metal heavier than iron came from a star that nova'd meaning exploded due to excessive mass. Elements heavier than oxygen came from stars bigger than the sun.
Our sun has mass sufficient to produce elements as heavy as oxygen, and these elements are radiated out into space, some of which are picked up by the earths gravity. The earth doesn't have the functional means of projecting it's own matter outside of its own gravitational field, if it did in the past some would have been picked up by the moon. It is even theorized that the moon was once part of the earth, but so far we can't be certain. If so, we have to consider the earth and moon as the same initial mass, and ask whether both the earth and moon have gotten heavier or lighter over time, otherwise it changes the context of your question.
The earth (or earth-moon system) is not significantly heavier or lighter than it was when it first formed. There could be some small differences, but they are not sufficient to change the orbital position with respect to the sun and other planets in the solar system.

Answer 2

Weighs more. the pluses in weight would be the meteors that have rained down on the earth. The minuses would be everything that we put in space.
Since things have been only been put INTO space since the 20th century and meteors have been raining for centuries.
My final guess would be that we are heavier.
Anything that burns up still weighs something, but the things that created craters must have weight more than lots of the things that went up into space.

Answer 3

Well, it was formed twice. I assume the question refers to last time, therefore, it is probably lighter since a great deal of mass was expelled at supersonic velocity in the early period plus, the earth was molten and less dense. This means it's mass would be less and consequently its weight would be less.

Answer 4

yes, because there are more bodies on the earth being made and most humans are dying and people are making up new stuff on this bussy place.

Answer 5

Yes. Essentially nothing here can leave and we gain mass from meteors, etc.