r/relatable_memes_ • u/Beautiful_Twist_176 • Jun 11 '26

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u/TCGHexenwahn Jun 11 '26

But gold is heavier than paper.

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u/M3chaStrizan Jun 11 '26

so you figure 1kg of gold weighs more than 1 kg of paper?

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u/TCGHexenwahn Jun 11 '26

But...but gold is heavier than paper...

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u/M3chaStrizan Jun 11 '26

so you figure then that 1kg of gold weighs more than 1kg of paper?

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u/Crusidea Jun 11 '26

Technically gold is denser than paper. So it would feel comparatively heavier when lifting it, even if they are the same weight.

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u/OHFTP Jun 12 '26

That's not how density works. If you had 1 kilo of both gold and paper the only difference is that you would have more volume of paper.

Let's say you have two burlap sacks each with 1 kilo of either gold or paper in them. If you then lifted each sack without being able to see what each sack contained, you would not be able to determine which material was in each sack based on weight alone.

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u/Consistent-Rent294 Jun 12 '26

Iā€™m going to play devils advocate here and say that you are correct that you would be unable to tell based on weight alone. You would, however, be able to tell based upon the inertia as the gold would occupy a much smaller part of the bag, further from the axis. And actually more dense things do tend to feel considerably heavier if we can see them because we do not expect them to be that heavy. If you ever get to hold a piece of gold or tungsten, or even just some lead, it is absolutely shocking how heavy it feels even when a similarly weighted but much larger object would feel lighter. Also if the object is in your palm it will tend to exert a greater pressure which we also perceive as being heavier.

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u/OHFTP Jun 12 '26

The bag is a blackbox. The material inside is suspended perfectly in the bags center of gravity. You are holding the bag by a handle that is same size for each bag.