A strange question, but the answer is impressive. A few years ago, a physicist named Russell Seitz he wondered: “How much does Internet?” By this question he meant, how much does this huge tangle of web content that consists of 75 to 100.000.000 weigh? servers and scale worldwide? What is its total weight?
The Dianetwork it is not something that could be weighed. It's like someone weighing in on a radio program. So why should the scientist bother?
Seitz mathematically discovered that while the Internet uses endless energy, translated into horsepower, it would reach "50.000.000 horsepower," if you weigh it, it has no weight. How much does it weigh? "Two ounces" which is around 57 grams. To be precise, the weight is 56.699 grams. Seitz typically states that it weighs about the size of a large strawberry.
How could something so big in our lives weigh so little?
The answer lies in the fact that Internet uses electrons. The information is stored there. And the electrons are very small. But they have no mass. Einstein taught us that. So it is possible to have all the energy that the internet feeds (E) and using the Einstein equation, (E = mc2) to convert the energy into something that can be weighed.
How Much Does an Email Weigh?
A regular e-mail (50 kb) to store and browse the internet uses about 8 billion electrons.
Eight billion electrons sound like a very large number, but if we put them on a scale and weigh them we will see that their weight reaches two twenty thousandths of a quadruple-millionth of one ounce. ”
Sure, it is not a number to remember. The Internet of course it contains not only an email, but also a video, archives musics, libraries, e-chat, photos and much more. We should add up how many electrons are needed to store the entire Internet…
So if everything is five million terabytes of information, what will we get?
About 0,2 millionth of an ounce. His information Internet they have almost no weight.
