What's heavier - a pound of feathers or a pound of gold?

It's misleading at best but blatantly incorrect(the original poster's assertion).
You are measuring weight and not mass.
SI units for mass are in kg and when the OP mentioned pounds I knew what to do.

1lb = 0.4535924 kg

 

lol, indeed.

 

I have not read through this but..

Because he is probably talking about monetary value for the Gold, and Weight for the Feather. So it would depend on how much a British pound actually weighed in Gold.

Which i don’t actually know.

 

Actually,

A British pound is roughly equal to a an American dollar. (worth more actually) Gold is about 400$ an ounce. So if a pound was a pound then the basic unit of measure for money in Brittan would be somewhere around 7,000 bucks.

Which means that a Pound of feather is a whole lot heavier than a pound of Gold.. at least in England.

 

erm, I think you should read through this, since the OP has already given his intended answer

 

Not really. 1 GBP (£) = 1.75 USD ($) which is not roughly equivalent in my book (unless you want to trade dollars for sterling with me )

 

If we squeeze the pound of feathers into the same volume as the pound of gold, the difference in pain would likely be un-measurable.

 

Especially if they were still attached to the ostrich.

 

Tell that to big electronics companies, still to this day ripping us off with skewed exchange rates!!

 

Hey, what about the education system? I "Feel" that my answer is right as its very "creative" and "original".

Now you have hurt my "Feelings" because you told me i was "wrong".

No one is really ever wrong, how dare you hurt my self esteem like that!!

 

I like the guys name 'Dick Pound' from the IOC.... always made me laugh on the news.

 

Whether you're talking about weight or mass does effect the answer if you want to be pedantic because the acceleration due to gravity was not specified in the question and hence could be different for the feathers and gold.

 

As I already answered, gold isn't Troy either:

 

God I'm glad I measure weight in grams and kilo-grams

Cheers

 

The german Wiki entry is wrong, I just realized that what they refer to is an ounce. Which is known as "Feinpfund" as a measure for precious metals. Have to send them a mail to correct that, methinks...

 

I guess someone should also ask whether the Feathers or the Gold are being accelerated towards the speed of light or not as well.

 

a block of gold around 14 inches square weighs a ton!

a cubic yard of water weighs a ton.

i remember, as a tot, being amazed at these revelations.

and am still amazed at the number of people whom had no clue about this as adults (jipped in education i guess)

what is the natural volume (settled under atmospheric pressure at sea level i guess) of feathers that equals a ton? probably enough to smother you at least.