Mass explanation: I’ve always been told that mass was not the same as weight, and that grams are the metric unit of mass. But grams are a measurement of weight, so am I stupid, was it was explained to me wrong, or is science just not make sense?

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Mass explanation: I’ve always been told that mass was not the same as weight, and that grams are the metric unit of mass. But grams are a measurement of weight, so am I stupid, was it was explained to me wrong, or is science just not make sense?

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Answer 1

Mass is the tendency of an object to resist motion. The more mass, the more inertia. Even though there isn’t earth’s gravity in space, an object of mass will resist motion even if weighing that same object in space would result in a measurement of zero.