What Weighs 6.6 cuadtrillion tons?

hehe, this was on the trivia thing at work today, although I confused myself When I was told the answer (or I had guessed correctly rather).

Answer: The Earth










Now my question is, how can this be weighed?? Is it not that something that is to be weighed, "the force of a body attracted to a celestial body, equal to the objects mass and acceration of gravity". How can this body be attracted to it self, or the other side, its own mass and the speed of gravity (Of which doesn't exist when not moving). So In Order to weigh this object, we must have itself inside of something else equal to its own gravitational speed. When It is actually being weighed does that include the air around us as well, what does air weigh anyways, or just the land mass it is, how is this object so perfect of a spherical kind, but yet so many different layers of mass. Is the earth really spherical, or does it just happen to look that way from space, (meaning if the atmosphere which contains all these crazy things in this planet, is not actually a perfect sphere around the earth).

Ok well I suck at science and my head hurts, so good night everyone, i am really confused. lol.

 

I read the question and answer at the top, and was just about to make a ridiculing post against you because the Earth can't be weighed. =P Lucky you for including the giant paragraph at the bottom that I almost didn't see!

Weight is relative. You can weigh a brick against the gravitational field of the Earth, or you can weigh the Earth against the gravitational field of a brick (the latter being almost infintessimally small =P), but you can't "weigh" the Earth without having some gravity field to weigh it against.

Futhermore, "weight" also depends on distance. A brick weighed against the Earth on the Earth's surface might be understandable, but a brick weighed against the Earth when it is in the Andromeda galaxy would be much smaller. =P

 

.

 

math.. pffft.. honestly, what does math ever prove

 

.

 

Thats Me!

 

Shaggie.. that's the mass of the earth right? The title says what 'weighs 6.6...' and mass and weight are not the same thing... but you know that.

 

.

 

May have rounded up? I'm not sure... hehe. This is pretty interesting watching you guys go at it though.

 

.

 

Is everyone agreed that its a badly worded question and that weight should infact say mass, and when answering such questions dont use stupid systsms such as quadrillion and stick to standard form.

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Grade 11 physics coming back to haunt me!!!!

 

If they were to try and convert the U.S. Into the other form of conversions, we would all have a heart attack lol. Hell half the people I see can't even get the stuff their being taught... I think that is one way to destroy us, teach us the metric system! We would destroy ourselves in our own stupidity (not that were not already doing this)

 

.