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Subject: Does a Hot brick weigh more than a cold one?

Date: Thu Oct 4 00:53:05 2001
Posted by Steve
Grade level: grad (science) School: none
City: Morris Plains State/Province: NJ Country: USA
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1002171185.Ph
Message:

As I understand it, gravity bends space.  So all things, even light - and 
presumably all electromagnetic radiation, are affected by gravity.  I would 
guess then that all forms of energy affected by gravity.  If so, than HEAT 
energy would be affected by gravity.  

Is the average kinetic energy of the molecules of a substance affected by 
gravity?  If it is, then a hot brick would weigh more than a cold one, although 
I suspect the difference would impossible or nearly impossible to measure.

What do you think?



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