Alright, let me give you an example to make my case. In my opinion building up a skyscraper would not increase earth weight it would be like placing small pieces of stones at one place.

Now what about Humans and other species who had not existed on earth... now they are all in abundance If they have led to increase earth Weight. ?

In my opinion If we are the result of evolution then it should not increase earth weight.. However If adam was descended from heaven to earth and every human being has got soul then it should have increased earth weight..!!!

Please share your knowledge and information on this subject.. thanks!

[edit on 10-5-2008 by LOYAL]

[edit on 10-5-2008 by LOYAL]

The stuff living things are made of comes from nature, you can't have something grow until it's come from somewhere else first. That's why you die if you don't eat, that's why the planet had a carrying capacity which is what we are running out of...

So no, life wouldn't make the earth heavier.

Originally posted by Did you see them
These patrticles must add to the earth.Not on its surface BUT at the depth that they come to rest below the surface.
The amount is huge and over the millenia of earths existence must have added greatly to its original size from the inside out.

The earth has got to have grown as a result of these particles.

The heaviest of those particles are protons, electrons, and alpha particles. Electrons are dissipated, because the earth cannot maintain much of an electric charge. Protons and alpha particles combine with electrons to form hydrogen and helium respectively. They don't penetrate very far at all, and can in fact be stopped by a sheet of paper. After becoming hydrogen and helium, they, being lighter than air, rise to the top of the earth's atmosphere, where they are ionized by incoming solar radiation, and blown off of the earth's atmosphere. Because this has been going on for billions of years, and equilbrium has been reached, and we gain no mass due to this process.

Some mass comes in, just as much goes out.

The rest of the particles are absorbed by the earth as energy, and only contribute to heating the surface and outermost layers of the earth. They do not add any meaningful amount mass to it.

Space dust does add tons of material on earth every year. Read that in some science journal years ago. A scientist did do some precision measurements at a hospice and determines a 'soul' weighs approximately 4 ounces. How true? Don't know.

Originally posted by jpm1602
Space dust does add tons of material on earth every year. Read that in some science journal years ago. A scientist did do some precision measurements at a hospice and determines a 'soul' weighs approximately 4 ounces. How true? Don't know.

The last part is more or less an urban legend. The mass of the soul was measured at 21 grams, by some 1800s era researcher, but nobody was ever able to replicate their results.

Originally posted by jpm1602
Space dust does add tons of material on earth every year. Read that in some science journal years ago. A scientist did do some precision measurements at a hospice and determines a 'soul' weighs approximately 4 ounces. How true? Don't know.

would the change in weight not just be due to expenditure of air and bodily fluids upon death

first of all, it would be the mass of the earth. earth has no objective weight because weight is mass affected by gravity.

anyway, life comes from the existing matter in the earth (read up on the carbon cycle)

however, particles from space are added, albeit at a very slow rate, would add slightly to the earth's mass.