Could Archimedes have lifted the earth?

Archimedes, the great mathematician, made a claim to King Hiero of Syracuse that he could move the earth if given a place to stand. But was this really possible? Imagining that he had another planet to stand on and a lever large enough to do so, could he really have moved the earth? Scientifically speaking, yes and no.
Comments on article "Could Archimedes have lifted the earth?"
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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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