The whole internet 'weighs the same as a strawberry'

A mathematician recently calculated that eBook readers 'gain weight' when you add new books to your library - due to the energy 'gained' by electrons when they store information, and the weight of that energy.

Filling a Kindle with books causes it to gain an infinitesimally small amount of mass - so small that it gains 100,000,000 times more when you recharge the battery.


Now a YouTube science channel has used the same mathematics to calculate the mass of the entire internet.  Full Read