Someone do an Experiement for me.

If your were to take a regular plastic baggy and put it on a scale and weigh it would it weigh more if you tied the same baggy in a knot? I don't have a scale so im curious.

Hank.

think about that one for a second...

Tell me im curious?

Hank.

it doesn't matter how you do it so long as the entire weight of the bag is over the center of the scale. On my scale for instance, if something is resting towards the outer edge, it weighs .2 less. My zip-lock bags are between 1.5 and 2.3 grams(for me).

And yeah haha I cut one up about a year ago to see.

So what are you tellin me. This theory is false? Doesn't mass play a small part?

Hank.

You are not changing the mass of the bag by crumbling it or folding it.

As stated the stretched out bag may weigh less because most scales are not big enough to fit a bag laying on its side.

If you have a scale with a big enough measuring surface then yes you can see it, same same.

Well i have a small scale so my baggies (sandwitch bags) cover up most of the scale if i just throw them ontop which would end up weighing about 1 gram. But ive tied it into a knot before to test it out and it actually went up to 4.3 grams or something close to that. I was surprised didnt really expect a bag to weight so much.

no, it would way the same, all you did different was change it shape, the mass is still there.

aDarkepiphany.. said:

no, it would way the same, all you did different was change it shape, the mass is still there.

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i second that with the additional advice of making sure that what you're weighing is on top of the scale not hanging over it can use a slight smount of leverage to weigh more or less and also make sure the scale is on a flat surface and no large wind or movement

Well thanks for all the replies. This still has me puzzled:-0

Hank.

wow... just wow... so if a man weighs 150lbs and i cut his head off and stick it up his ass and weigh him again, he will weigh 4 times more? Come on menace, are you serious? your being sarcastic in some way right? Did you tie a knot right in the middle of the bag so it kinda looks like a bowtie then placed the knot in the middle of the weighing surface?

so I ask you which is heavier? ton of feathers or ton of lead?

I also agree with darkepiphany 100%, you are not making a chemical or neither a physical reaction to make the bag gain or lose any weight.

Chemical reaction as in burining/melting

physical as in cutting.

If you tie a knot on the top of the bag so it kinda looks like a resin head with stem,then the bag would be top heavy because of the knot BUT, the entire mass of the object is the same.

Go to a digital weighing scale at a grocery store and try it.

yes, a rare and amazing thread

naw dude i was playin with sum envelopes at my dads job(hes a mail man) but i thout if you balled it up it would weigh more but nope same weghit balled up as flat

Buy a set of Ohaus tripple beams & throw those shittin ass digital scales in the trash.

This reminds me of a scene in the South Park episode Copycat Killer with the left hand killer when the officer sees all the hands on the wall and then has to do hours of experimentation to find out that the right hands are really rotated left hands.

so what weighs more ... 50 pounds of hammers or 50 pounds of feathers?

you can cut up the bag - tie it in knots - do whatever you want as long as no mass is lost and it will weigh the same.

Mass does not equal volume.

God what did i start

Hank.

Hank said:

God what did i start

Hank.

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