The scientist Archimedes is famed to have once said “Give me a lever long enough and I’ll move the world”. Let us assume that Archimedes is approximately (60 kg) and the world has a mass of approximately (6×1024kg). If the fulcrum of our lever is (1 m) away from the Earth’s side, how long is our lever? (Assume that all of this takes place on an infinite plane with Earth surface gravity.) (Give your answer in units of the distance to the galaxy Andromeda which is 770 kpc away. You will need to convert from meters.)

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The scientist Archimedes is famed to have once said “Give me a lever long enough and I’ll move the world”. Let us assume that Archimedes is approximately (60 kg) and the world has a mass of approximately (6×1024kg). If the fulcrum of our lever is (1 m) away from the Earth’s side, how long is our lever? (Assume that all of this takes place on an infinite plane with Earth surface gravity.) (Give your answer in units of the distance to the galaxy Andromeda which is 770 kpc away. You will need to convert from meters.)

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