how do you get mass from nothing?

It started out as one plant and a bit of soil, and now become this. It's clearly expanding. I don't know how, but it just does, and it'll soon fill up.

It started just as it looks like you dumbshit. He didn't start out with a tiny bit of soil and a tiny plant, he started with just the amount of soil, water, and plant as you see now. You can't just "create" soil by doing this, the plants grow, use nutrients from the soil, die, decompose and return their nutrients to the soil, and then grow again. No new soil is being made, it's a cycle. Ever heard of the carbon/nitrogen/water cycle? That's what this represents. Now go back to the 5th grade.

No, it started out as one small plant and only a little bit of soil.

How ignorant are you?
Go to bed, kid

No, it started out as one small plant and only a little bit of soil...

No, it didn't. Don't you know ANYTHING? Mass can neither be created nor destroyed, meaning that in a closed, isolated ecosystem, as shown, soil can't just magically appear. It started out with just as much soil as you see in the picture, and it started with the same amount of plants. If you put a seed with a tiny amount of soil in a bottle, it won't just magically produce soil. That's fucking stupid.

Dude... it started with little soil. Leaves grew, died, and rotted to create more soil. Ta fucking da

The dead leaves didn't die and then become soil, they DECOMPOSED and returned NUTRIENTS to the soil. Where in the paragraph does it say it started with a tiny amount of soil? Yes, I will admit I was wrong, and it DID start with one seed, but that seed USED THE NUTRIENTS FROM THE SOIL to reproduce, died, and then decomposed to RETURN THE NUTRIENTS TO THE SOIL. No soil is magically being made, it's the fucking carbon cycle.

Lol carbon cycle.
I bet the dude started it with nothing. Just a vacuum and it just caused shit to happen spontaneously like the big bang.

If you TRULY think that, than you are the most stubborn, ignorant piece of waste the earth has ever seen. I truly hope that you don't breed.

Just sayin, in the forest the ground gets higher by 3 feet ever 100 years from the dead leaves falling and turning into soil.

Im the smarterest person here.

Who told you that? Your mom? Your friend who knows everything?

Jesus fucking christ I can't handle the stupidity anymore.

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Listen, kid, go to bed. Its time to stop talking to grown ups

why is the earth not bigger than fucking Jupiter by now?

You can NOT be this dumb. Its called technonic plates.

1- Did you even read what I wrote? You missed my point ENTIRELY.

2 - When I said, "Why isn't the earth bigger than Jupiter", I mean that when using your invalid point that forests grow 3 feet every year, the earth should have so much soil that it should be bigger than jupiter considering that the earth has been around for 4 trillion something years. I know that the earth shouldn't be bigger than Jupiter, I was just using that to point out that the fact you gave me is completely false and invalid.

3 - You're calling me dumb when you're constantly saying the soil magically fucking reproduces itself from nothing. You're. Retarded.

4 - What the fuck does TECTONIC PLATES have to do with ANYTHING? Did you hear that in your 5th grade science class and you wanted to bring up tectonic plates to sound smart? You're making an ass of yourself.


I'm done arguing with you. It's just like trying to convince my 3 year old cousin she's wrong. Pointless. Anything you say will further prove my point that you're an ignorant, stubborn, arrogant, close-minded prick.

You really need some education dont you?

It doesn't fill up, the dirt is just not as dense, so it looks like it's more of it

I know you can't get mass from nothing. But where did all that shit come from?

Rotting leaves

And the alive leaves?

they fall off as they die

and the whole thing just grows and expands until they overcrowd...

If nothing can get inside the bottle, how should it fill up?

lel, you tell me. It started out with one plant.

fine, tell me your fairy tale

How is it a fairy tale?

because there must be magic involved, if nothing could get inside the bottle, and if it filled up, where would the soil come from? As i said: there had to be magic, therefore it is a fairy tale

No no no haha. The plant grew, and leaves dropped, rotted, and made more soil...

No, let me explain it this way: take a closed jar of stones, wait one or two days, then count them. The amount will still be the same as it was, when you filled them in; what do you think is the plant made of? Not of nothing, that's for sure please be a troll

It's been 40 years man... he waited 40 years.