If the MASS of EVERYTHING is doubled in an instant, will we be able to detect it?
2006-11-13 20:09:21 · 5 answers · asked by Lianne 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
yes. if everything changes, we, by ourselves, will not be able to detect it, but the devices can. the machines may be smaller than ever but they are programmed to calculate. those that are programmed before. like your weighing scale.
2006-11-13 20:17:19 · answer #1 · answered by Chan Meiyean 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
19th century mathematician Jules Henri Poincare once proposed a though experiment similar to your homework problem. Suppose, he said, that while you were sound asleep, everything in the universe (electrons, atoms, wavelengths of light, you, your bed, EVERYTHING) became a thousand times larger. When you awoke, would you be able to detect any change or perform any experiment to prove the change? The answer is no, and the same answer would apply to mass as it would physical dimension. So the answer is no. Hope that helped.
2006-11-13 20:18:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean "Would we detect it immediately?" The answer is NO because we as people would all double in mass along with it. It would all still seem the same. But yes, we would figure it out eventually. :)
2006-11-13 20:21:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, that is because mass may be constant but weight is variable..
mass is a measure of the "amount of
matter" in a substance and that weight equals the mass of an object multiplied
by the acceleration due to gravity. Thus, the mass of an object is constant
but the weight of an object is variable.
2006-11-13 20:21:24 · answer #4 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
2006-11-13 21:28:34 · answer #5 · answered by Chuck 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋