Is it true that when sun, earth and moon are in a line.....

India
April 1, 2009 10:51am CST
then our weight decreases by 2.5 to 7.5 kg! Actually today when I was traveling at about 6:30 pm I heard on radio that at 7:25 the sun, the earth and the moon will be in a single line and we will weigh less, less by 2.5 to 7.5 kg. But as I couldn't reach my destination till that time I wasn't able to check it by myself. DO you know something about it? and if it actually happens what will you think a baby having weigh less then .5 kg will weigh? and what about other things, do they weigh low too? (all times in Indian Standard time)
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
1 Apr 09
Well, that would make alot of people who are trying ot lose weight happy as a lark..lol But with babies I feel that they would probably know about this and just not weight them on these days. You will still weigh the same it is just less gravitation pull maybe, so it appears you weigh less.
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• India
1 Apr 09
So it is actually like that. Indeed if it is like that, it has to be something with the gravitation and not the mass.
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@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
1 Apr 09
I am no science whiz so I am not sure, but is what I think anyhow,so if I am wrong I would like to know so I can correct my way of thinking with actual facts. Would also like a link to check it out also.
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@neha2k94u (406)
• India
6 Apr 09
Hi dear!!! Well I never knew such a thing... And if it is like this then, what I feel is, this must be the average weight loss, for people of middle age... I think in that case everybody will loose some weigh in proportion to theirs... and not strictly 2.5 kg or 7.5 that must depend on their weigh...
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@eshaan (6188)
• India
2 Apr 09
no idea friend, but the thing u wrote is interesting, maybe the weight reduces proportional to their wieghts like there may be difference in some fractions, if you come to know some interesting realities about this plz let me know, i will also keep track of this discussion of yours to see what other people here know about it.
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@arkansos (545)
• India
4 Apr 09
Your weight does decrease....your mass is always the same so if you have a 'mass' of 75 Kgs, you'll still be 75 kgs but your weight or earth's pull towards you will decrease(beacause it is countered by the sun's and moon's gravitational pull on you) thereby making you feel lighter by a few kilos and the decrease in weight is proportional to your original weight(actually your new weight will be (g-k-j)M/g , where g is acceleration due to gravity due to earth k and j due to sun and moon. So if a baby's weight is 0.5 kgs, he will weigh approximately 0.44 kgs, instead of weighing nothing as you might have beleived. For anything else, multiply the weight by 0.07-0.09 to get the weight range.
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@aabuda (1722)
• Philippines
2 Apr 09
I think it is definitely true. And it is because of the gravitational force that the moon have. And since we are atracted to it, then definitely our weight will be affected.
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@glennz81 (21)
• Australia
2 Apr 09
This is very interesting as i always weigh less in the morning lol thats probably why when your on a diet they suggest you weigh your self in the morning haha
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@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
16 Apr 09
I never heard of this! Very interesting..
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• India
17 Apr 09
I can say it for sure as I have myself hear it for once only, but yes I have heard it.
@chiyosan (30183)
• Philippines
15 Apr 09
wow!!! i wish that is true everytime. hehe i haven't heard about it, i will try to read about this and will think if it is a fact or not.. maybe it is true, i doubt if a newspaper will report it otherwise.
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• India
15 Apr 09
Hi. If you do search for it and found something interesting...please share it with us here. Thanks for your response.
@subha12 (18441)
• India
15 Apr 09
I have never heard this. so I am not sure.but it can be. But why does it happen?
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• India
16 Apr 09
If it does happen, it is because of the gravitational pulls of the three heavily bodies.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
2 Apr 09
Wouldn't that be just so wonderful! The whole trouble is if our weight decreased when the sun, earth, and moon were in alignment, is that some of us would take advantage of that and go to the Fast food place, and stock up on junk food, and all the stuff we are not supposed to have. So I sort of wish that would not happen.
@littleowl (7157)
1 Apr 09
Hi cool, being honest I really couldn't tell you if that is right or not it would be nice to think so though!! It would be nice to know if anyone else knows anything about it on here...littleowl
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
2 Apr 09
I am the first one to know about it. Well, it can be true, we don't know how Gravitional forces work in universe but 2.5-7.5 is way too much to believe. It that would have been like 250gm then it would have be believable but that is too huge. Which date you are talking about ?
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• India
2 Apr 09
hi. I am talking about 1st of April.
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@sanuanu (11235)
• India
2 Apr 09
Am I?
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• United States
2 Apr 09
April fools? I'm afraid you have been tricked.... xD
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@jlamela (4897)
• Philippines
17 Apr 09
I have no idea too since I never read anything from this issue in the past, maybe I have to ask my friend who has a master's degree in Physics if this is all true. Well, I have no idea about gravitation pull and all.
• India
17 Apr 09
Hi. If you do come to know something concrete on this thing, let us know as well. Thanks for your response.
• India
2 Apr 09
I dont think so. Actully i dont believe on all these things.
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@Qaeyious (2357)
• United States
2 Apr 09
heh - we all know now who don't read the other responses before posting Still, since the moon guides the tides of the oceans, there is some kind of force, though, maybe even with the sun in tow, but with our individual mass, it is probably in the measurement of less than a milligram. Any physics majors here?
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• India
2 Apr 09
Me too looking for some one knowing more about gravity and related fields.. thanks for your response dear.
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@dfinster (3528)
• United States
2 Apr 09
Wow,this was really interesting to read and kind of cool. I honestly haven't heard about this or seen anything on the news about it. I would be very interested to find out if that was really true. Anything that would make it possible for me to lose a few pounds without having to diet is totally cool to me, LOL. I never really understood all that stuff about how things are affected when planets align and things like that astrology stuff. I'll have to keep my eye on this discussion the next few days to see what kind of answers come up about this, because it's really interesting.
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• India
2 Apr 09
Hi. Most of the people here thinks that I or the Radio Jockey was playing pranks... but I hope you will let us know if you come across something about it... and there may be a hint in the gravitational phenomenon about all this. Thanks for your response.
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• United States
2 Apr 09
i have never heard this.. that is interesting!!
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• India
2 Apr 09
Hi. Thanks for your response.
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@berrys (864)
• Singapore
2 Apr 09
wow is this true? I've never heard of such a thing... and I don't think the radio stations here mentioned anything about the moon earth and sun being in a line and all the weight issues.... some scientist should really look in to this. they can discover new laws of gravity... this is very interesting.
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• India
2 Apr 09
Hi. Thanks for your response dear.
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@paula27661 (15811)
• Australia
2 Apr 09
I think that it is someone's idea of a cool Aril Fool's joke; it doesn't make a great deal of sense to me!
• India
2 Apr 09
It is not easily acceptable to me as well but it may have some logic.. Thanks for your response.
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• India
2 Apr 09
ha ha then that will be the best time to shop. I will buy 10kg of rick and only pay for 2.5kg. Well I dont felt anything like in my whole life. After listning to radio have you checked the information on Internet. I think it is not true?
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• India
2 Apr 09
I couldn't find anything like that on net till now. Thanks of your response though.
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