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Yes, they do get heavier by virtue of changing their arrangement. And yes, pushing a rock up a hill makes it - well, the rock will get slightly lighter in weight by virtue of being further from the Earth (classical inverse square law of gravity) - but the total mass of the rock-Earth system (assume you used solar power so you didn't take the energy from a terrestrial source) will slightly increase.



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