50 grams

50 Grams is how much the internet weighs:

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  • Orange

    Only a little bit right but mostly wrong. Take all the information away and you still have all the electrons sitting there. So really the internet weighs far less than what the video states. Basically zero because information is different from the matter on which it is carried. However, if it takes a certain energy to hold an electron in place then that energy (not the mass of the electron) could be equivalent to a certain amount of mass according to E=mc^2. And that mass would not be big enough to take a bite out of.

  • Steve

    In space it weighs nothing, think about it. I could be wrong but has this been tested without gravity?

  • Rightoverlabour

    Need to differentiate between mass, which is unchanging, and weight which is affected by gravity. A more accurate question would be what is the mass of the internet? 
    Orange, surely we could count the electrons that are been held in place as constituting the matter that is been measured, in addition to  the energy that is holding the electrons in place?