Could Archimedes have lifted the earth?

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archimedes pagal ho gaya hai burhau 6/18/2011
NITIN MAHARJAN BUt can we lift the earth with a hydrolic engine like in vehicles...it seeems to be more effective than archimedes lever...we can multiply the applied effort thousands times...its only about the place to support the engine like for archimedes...i guess not only earth if it is possible this whole universe... 5/9/2011
Kay Mbewe UK Wow this is Awesome. It has a Wow factor to it, What more can be said,? there is an awesome God out there,Sorry it's a fact! We can't explain him. Sometimes we get convinced we can explain God, just like arch thought he could lift the earth from a few working facts he had discovered on leverage. Reading this artcle, it's clear that as mathematically smart as he was, he had no idea what he was talking about! I have really enjoyed reading this article, Fabulous! 4/11/2011
Mohamed Ali He Would do that , just give him a place to stand ... 7/14/2010
idk maybe 5/11/2010
MOHAMMED AINOOS I enjoyed reading this biography of my mentor(ARCHIMEDES 5/1/2010
E You should get more info on it though. I'm doing a project on Archimedes and this didn't help at all 4/6/2010
E I think that this is amazing that anyone could have come up with all these numbers and factors. 4/6/2010
DEE LADETRIUS DENSON LOVES KEONA HUNTER 3/10/2010
QUAD QUADREE ROBERTSON LOVE KEONA HUNTER 3/10/2010
REBECCA HILL THIS IS A GOOD WEBSITE BUT YOU CANT FIND EVERYTHING YOU NEED ON A PERSON IN ONE PLACE YOU ALL SHOULD BE MORE SPECIFIC AND ORGANIZED ABOUT THE INFORMATION YOU ARE PROVIDEING...XOXO 3/10/2010
jim considering that his lever does not flex, even if he only moved the long arm of the lever one micron the earth would be lifted, allbeit
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times less than one micron.		 12/27/2009
Carl Thanks! I was curious! 12/5/2009
happydud123ertu who will win im a celebrity find out after the break you impatient ... 12/4/2009
kyle if archimedes could do this he would have to been great at maths 12/4/2009
marmite hmnmm i dont thinks so 12/4/2009
lookdersabomb beth doesnt really like him in that way 12/4/2009
pen did anyone watch gavin and stcay tb bk 12/4/2009
Sade Wilson I think that Archimedes didn't realize that he couldn't move the earth because when you come to think of it and you actually do it sometimes, it doesn't make any sense. 9/13/2009
Kyra P It's impossible to lift something with the same mass as the Earth because we don't have enough time to. 9/13/2009
Carter G. This article is intresting to me because I didn't know that the earth weighs that much. I thought that he could lift the earth if someone continued his hypothesis. When we get back in class can you tell me how much the earth weighs because I couldn't read the number. 9/12/2009
John Are you serious?
You say that earth weighs 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons in earth's gravity. To actually do this, you would need a space big enough to hold the earth and the length of that lever. Let's say the sun has solidified and it stayed the same size. The sun has a gravity that's 28 times stronger than the earth's(I think). That means all the numbers would've have to been multiplied 28 times. And truly, I don't think that lever's gonna fit on the sun. The sun's diameter is 1,392,000 KM. They say that it's gonna describe through space an arc of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 km. Alpha Centuri A, mabye?
Probably not.		 8/12/2009
Thalis Archimedes would probably claim that he didn’t state anywhere that he could lift the earth by 1 cm with such a lever, neither that the lift would be of a measurable quantity. He would then proceed and just move the lever by 1m in 1 second, and prove him right - because at the same time he would have managed to lift the earth indeed, regardless of how much. 8/8/2009
Caleb Wow i was wondering about this thanks for putting it into detail 12/4/2008
Claude Good I like your drawing of Archimedes "lifting the earth." I have a program called the "Worm Project." We de-worm children around the world. For a flyer to help people know how much can be done with a two cent pill (once every six months) we would like to use the idea that the same principle could be used to "move the earth" for better health by ridding the earth of intestinal worms. We would like to do that by 2020. We are up to a minimum 40,000,000 pills scheduled to be distributed in 2009. Would you give us permission to use it? It could have a powerful effect in helping remove the worm "burden" of the world. Thanks so much! 11/24/2008
Varun Does the reference cited here have this analysis? If not, I read this exact same analysis in "Physics for entertainment" by Yakov Perelman, 1975. 8/11/2008
Sean Note that Archimedes never said how far he'd move the earth, only that he could move it. So even if he only moved the lever in your example by 1 meter, the earth would still move by a non-zero amount. 12/18/2007
ben kelef are u righ 3/25/2007
Bob Petersen How long would the effort arm of the lever have to be if the moon at its mean distance form the earth is used as the fulcrum and Archimedes only wanted to use a force of 100 pounds to move the earth? 1/28/2006
Vanya Bates I think he could have moved the earth 1/24/2006
Nerd Archemedes managed to weigh the Earth....but how? And secondly, getting a much longer leaver makes your theories wrong, because his strength would be amplified a lot more. If you multiply the lenght of the leaver by two thousand, for instance, you must multiply the time by 1/2000th , and so on until he could lif enough. 11/13/2005
Simple MacHines I'm with Archimedes on this one! 10/18/2005
sharifa um i think that the eatrth weights 13,200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 pounds in 240,000 miles?
 3/11/2005
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