2007-03-30 13:21:05 · 11 answers · asked by jflsdkjflsad 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
This is a more interesting question than any of the other respondents have stated.
The fast answer is no, because all the molecules and elements that make up a person's physical body stay on the earth, even if they are cremated. Of course, as stated some molecules can escape the atmosphere and be lost, but when a person dies this process does not accelerate.
What I referred to in my opening line, is one's soul! Efforts were made (I believe in the 18th or 19th century) to weigh precisely a human to see if the weight of the body decreases at the time of death. If it did, so the hypothesis went, then it could be a proof that the persons soul had left to go to its final reward.
I will leave it up to you to decide if this experiment was valid, but there was found to be no systematic decrease in the weight of the body at the time of death.
2007-03-30 14:21:59 · answer #1 · answered by David A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL worms. The earths weight is mostly comprised of the iron ore core (we think) and the mantle and crust. Killing and burning all the blue whales in the world would only reduce the earths total mass by fractions of fractions of a percent.
If you pick up a penny at the top of the empire state building does it reduce it's weight. The answer is yes. But only to the fricking smallest percent EVAR.
intresting question...mass vs. weight.
2007-03-30 20:28:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Matter is always conserved in any reaction. A human body is simply a well-constructed mass of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and some other elements. When a body decays, those elements simply form new bonds to become other things which have the same aggregate mass.
2007-03-30 20:27:34 · answer #3 · answered by bgdddymtty 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nope- matter is matter. Besides, the Earth doesn't have "weight" weight is measured relative to another (usually more massive) object. Weight is the pull of gravity between any two objects. I weigh 225 lbs relative to the Earth, and the Earth weighs 225 lbs relative to me.
2007-03-30 20:25:44 · answer #4 · answered by Chad P 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi. It changes all the time. Some gas escapes (hydrogen, helium) while meteors add weight. A person's mass tends to stay buried.
2007-03-30 20:25:48 · answer #5 · answered by Cirric 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure the earth is getting more massive all the time because of dust and stuff falling from space.
2007-03-30 20:37:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, unless he's sent out in space.
2007-03-30 20:24:45 · answer #7 · answered by Paul 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if the body gets cremated....
2007-03-30 20:29:04 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
worms get fatter
2007-03-30 20:23:42 · answer #9 · answered by bombaybubba 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no because someone else is born
2007-03-30 20:30:35 · answer #10 · answered by Yzabelle P 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋