Re: how much does data weigh?

[Dan McGinn-Combs <dgcombs () gmail com>]

mmmm.... strawberries moving plate to plate.

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Christopher Croad <ccroad () syr edu> wrote:

> It's been a long time since my days as an EE major in college, but I'm
> thinking the electrons in a capacitor are relatively constant....they
> migrate from plate to plate based on its charge state.
>
> O' course, that was 30 some odd years ago, so I'm probably way off base.
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> Sounds accurate to me.
>
> I saw this the other day, not sure how accurate it is but kind of relevant:
>
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> http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/c25.0.843.403/p843x403/525017_10151286714802518_1541723172_n.jpg
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> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Robin Wood <robin () digininja org> wrote:
> > No idea why I woke up thinking about this but thought I'd share it with
> you all.
> > A 1 is stored in RAM by charging a capacitor, so the capacitor is full
> > of electrons. That means if you set every bit in a 1G machine to 1
> > then it has to weigh more than if you set them all to 0. That would
> > mean that at any point your computer is getting heavier or lighter
> > depending on what it is working on.
> >
> > Is that right or am I talking rubbish?
> >
> > Robin
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