A faster than light neutrino walks into a bar...

[dedalos]

depends on the environments their weights were originally measured in ...

 

[guncrasher]

gold gets measured in troy ounces,  less ounces per lb than cotton.

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[RTHolmes]

ok ... I'm a brit so a pound is a measurement of weight, not mass. if the lb of cotton was originally weighed on the moon and the lb of gold was weighed on the earth, the cotton would have much greater mass than the gold. heavy has more to do with mass than weight, so the lb of cotton would be heavier than the lb of gold given the above conditions. probably

[dedalos]

ok ... I'm a brit so a pound is a measurement of weight, not mass. if the lb of cotton was originally weighed on the moon and the lb of gold was weighed on the earth, the cotton would have much greater mass than the gold. heavy has more to do with mass than weight, so the lb of cotton would be heavier than the lb of gold given the above conditions. probably

Hmmm, nop, you cant compare the two unless you measure under the same conditions.  Otherwise, you are just comparing conditions.  In either case, I was just messing around when I asked since I could claim wrong no matter what you answered. 

If you said they are the same, I could use atomic weights.  If you said that one was heavier than the other I could use the fact that they are both 1lb 

[RTHolmes]

well ... we define a lb as whatever weighs the same as a chunk of platinum (stored somewhere in london I imagine.) something that weighs the same as that rather valuable standard on the moon will have considerable greater mass than something that weighs the same on earth ...

[PuppetZ]

gold gets measured in troy ounces,  less ounces per lb than cotton.

semp

Really didn't thought of this

I guess that goes in the basket of things I didn't know that I do now 

Semp, that DID mess with my head a little.

[guncrasher]

so is it possible for an once of gold to weight more than an ounce of cotton but a pound of cotton to weight more than a pound of gold.

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[PuppetZ]

so is it possible for an once of gold to weight more than an ounce of cotton but a pound of cotton to weight more than a pound of gold.

semp

Stop doing this dammit 

 

[titanic3]

Who cares how much it weighs? Just sell it it to the highest bidder. 

[dedalos]

well ... we define a lb as whatever weighs the same as a chunk of platinum (stored somewhere in london I imagine.) something that weighs the same as that rather valuable standard on the moon will have considerable greater mass than something that weighs the same on earth ...

Hmm, at what speed?

[guncrasher]

Hmm, at what speed?

speed of bs x fan square?


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[RTHolmes]

Hmm, at what speed?

since they are all measured on the surface, lets say non-relativistic speeds ...

[hitech]

ok ... I'm a brit so a pound is a measurement of weight, not mass. if the lb of cotton was originally weighed on the moon and the lb of gold was weighed on the earth, the cotton would have much greater mass than the gold. heavy has more to do with mass than weight, so the lb of cotton would be heavier than the lb of gold given the above conditions. probably

I always knew you were a slug at heart.

HiTech

[dedalos]

since they are all measured on the surface, lets say non-relativistic speeds ...

Surface of what?  One is on earth the other on the moon and we know they both spin and move at different speeds.  Not to mention we don;t know what direction the objects are moving.  Muahahahahahha

[Shuffler]

What it were gold cotton?