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This isn't even right considering most is stored on hard drives. A bit is stored as a magnetic direction, not an electrical charge, and turning a N-S orientation into a S-N doesn't add any mass.

You aren't adding anything, you are just rearranging what's already there.

so all your files that you want are already on that usb drive only not arranged yet?. So it's like a puzzle?.

No, flash memory stores data as an electrical charge. A 1 has more weight than a 0 since it has a handful of electrons more.

all the data is literally a combination of 0's and 1's

Think of it like the alphabet, all the letters you need to write a story are there. Every story uses the same letters, but every story is different because they combine the letters in a different way.

say a piece of paper is 1 gram. would writing on it increase the weight of the paper since ink or pencil lead is something that is physically added onto it.

these are two completely different things
say u had a jigsaw puzzle and u just rearranged it to show a different picture, u arent adding any pieces to it u are just moving it around

Yes

Exactly this. It's like playing with legos. You're given a 1000 bricks and they all mean nothing until you make something with them

In that case yes. In flash memory you would also be increasing the mass since data is stored via electrical charge, but that would mean one of either 1 or 0 weighs, depending on how it's set up, and the other doesn't. In magnetic media it's more like having a set of switches and you encoding the data on their positions, so no mass change.

They'll weight more when you rearrange them because you're adding energy :^)

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there MUST be a change in weight in HDDs even if it's absolutely miniscule.

When you hear disk thrashing and drives get hot that means energy is being created by friction. The heat is being created and transferred outward. Nothing is created nor destroyed so the heat is coming from the drive (as well as electricity) and being dissippated.

no it doesn't it weighs the same

kek

is it a or b

The answer is: Who the fuck knows, it's not real physics. First define the properties of a portal and then come back.

It's A. The box has no momentum.

it would be B if platform with cube was moving. Since the cube has no energy itself and stays at the zero speed, A will be correct answer: when it comes to interaction between two platforms, zero speed cube is in another portal already and not affected by any power.

If you've got a one pound box with 40 rocks all lined up on one edge, then you move some rocks to the other side so that the word "Hello" is encoded as binary. The box still weights one pound.

you've changed the entropy of the system which must change the mass

>entropy
>not garbage jewish physics.

There's weight involved in accessing the data, but the data itself adds no weight.

I doubt the entropy after you've interacted with the rocks differs from the initial entropy. Unless you buy that garbage definition that 'information' by itself is entropy.

In a macro system such a thing is pointless to factor in. In a nano scale system entropy could begin to matter, but it really depends on how the system works. There are ways to store and compute reversibly such that state changes consume no energy fundamentally and closed system entropy is unchanged. However some operations cannot be reversible, like data erasure. So entropy change depends on what you're doing and the system state.

This. The platform the cube is on will absorb the energy of the impact and there will be no force behind the cube.