Does the World become heavier or lighter each day and why?

Answer 1

Heavier, because of the constant "rain" of asteroids, etc.

Answer 2

This is a tough question to answer. We have no way of accurately measuring if the earth gets heavier or lighter per day. I can tell you that the earth should remain the same weight for roughly the next million years.

It doesn't matter how much fossil fuels we burn, or how many cows we slaughter, or how much oxygen we convert to carbon dioxide when we breathe. All that is happening here is that matter is just being changed from one form to another. Nothing is being added, nothing is being taken.

However, thousands of comets and cosmic dusts burn or fall into the atmosphere adding to the weight of the planet. This is obviously a small percentage, but none-the-less, in the long run, adds a lot of weight to the planet.

But once again, nature outdoes us all, and balances this equation properly, oxygen and other gases at the top of the atmosphere are constantly being lost to space. This lossage, a very small percentage, counteracts the weight loss.

I would like to note that it is theorized that Mars used to be a planet much like Earth in the past 4 billion years, but because of it's lesser gravitational field, it could not retain it's oxygen atmosphere, and we now know Mars as a carbon dioxide planet since carbon dioxide is heavier.

Answer 3

I say neither, because everything that was on earth in "the beginning" is still here, it's just displaced.

If we create something, we take from the Earth, but the matter used to make it is still somewhere.

Even if we burn old rubbage, the transfer of matter is still in effect, the ashes and gases go into the air forming other molecules that in the long run, end up landing somewhere. :)

If anything, we are throwing the Earth's balance off, and THAT could also affect global warming, at least I think it can, do you? :)

As for the above answer saying "Asteroids" make the earth heavier, well, what about the space junk we leave out in space that actually left earth causing a very minute loss of weight? If any "asteroids" are landing on earth, they probably make up for the space junk we leave out in space. Just my guess......

As for "space dust", well, most things entering out atmosphere burn up, and most of that weight probably stays out in the highest atmosphere, which would not affect the actual weight of Earth itself.

Answer 4

There is a rain of light which comes from our Sun and all the galaxies of the Universe. So each second a certain amount of Photons per unit area are received on earth. According to newly discoverded data these photons have mass limits.Therefore we are receiving mass from these photons .Their mass is very minute,but when you add them up a consideral amount gets absorbed into the earth causing the mass of the world to increase.AS the mass increase the orbit of the earth increases and the spin velocity of the world decrease causing our days to become longer. The lenghting of the days is very slow but it has been observed.

Answer 5

Although tonnes of gas escapes from Earth's atmosphere on a daily basis, that loss is more than counterbalanced by the constant bombardment of hundreds of tonnes of meteoroids, some of which you can see on a dark, clear night in the form of "shooting stars".

Answer 6

hevier on pollution and lighter on natural resources,we all use so much fossil fuels that our iae was so polluted that it creats heavy smog especially during summerseason,lighter on natural resources because we have distroyed almost all of our natural resources for the sake of development

Answer 7

Heavier.
Tons of dust fall continuously from space.