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1. Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Oct-2021 22:50:16 UTC Alexandre Oliva
   nah, it was entirely fictional AFAIK. Eureka was the fictional city of genius inventors in the series. no amount of internal motors could enable a ball to dynamically change its weight. though mass is energy, in day-to-day life you can most often assume it's conserved, which is why I found it so creative and amusing
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   • Bob Jonkman (bobjonkman@gs.jonkman.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Oct-2021 04:47:50 UTC Bob Jonkman

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     Even with mass-energy equivalency, it is much easier to change mass into energy than the other way around. But as far as changing an object's *weight* by pressing a button, that should be possible. Weight is dependent on both on the mass and distance separating two (or more) objects, or the acceleration of an object. If pressing the button initiates something to accelerate that object away from another object then its weight will change...
     
     (Note: Pedantic me has not yet watched Eureka, so I don't know how this weight-changing object is used)