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Does digital information weigh anything?
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Does digital information weigh anything?
Does digital information weigh anything?
15 January 2020
Professor Polina Bayvel (Electronic & Electrical Engineering) explains how all of the data used by the internet would weigh the same as a barely visible pencil shaving.
Listen: BBC World Service’s ‘Crowdscience’ (from 27 mins 5 secs)
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