It's been a long time since my days as an EE major in college, but I'm thinking the electrons in a capacitor are relatively constant....they migrate from plate to plate based on its charge state.
O' course, that was 30 some odd years ago, so I'm probably way off base. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher D. Croad, Director of Information Security Information Technology and Services, Syracuse University 205 Machinery Hall [email protected] | 315-443-3989 PGP Key Available at pgp.mit.edu (ID 0x8D8F9CD7) Follow "SecureCuse" on Facebook and Twitter for InfoSec information! -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ryan Dewhurst Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2012 10:36 AM To: PaulDotCom Security Weekly Mailing List Subject: Re: [Pauldotcom] how much does data weigh? Sounds accurate to me. I saw this the other day, not sure how accurate it is but kind of relevant: http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c25.0.843.403/p843x403/525017_10151286714802518_1541723172_n.jpg On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Robin Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > No idea why I woke up thinking about this but thought I'd share it with you > all. > > A 1 is stored in RAM by charging a capacitor, so the capacitor is full > of electrons. That means if you set every bit in a 1G machine to 1 > then it has to weigh more than if you set them all to 0. That would > mean that at any point your computer is getting heavier or lighter > depending on what it is working on. > > Is that right or am I talking rubbish? > > Robin > _______________________________________________ > Pauldotcom mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom > Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
