Just take the laptop to an airport where your gate is at the other end.

I guarantee the weight difference will be easily measurable by the
time you get there.

-Josh More



On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Kevin Shaw <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe you're correct, but would it not be extremely hard to measure that
> weight?
>
> On Oct 23, 2012 10:29 AM, "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
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