Timeline for What issues as a result of square-cube law would a human scaled to the size of an ant face?
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| Sep 25, 2015 at 8:26 | comment | added | Lostinfrance | @sumelic, in Isaac Asimov's original novelization of the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage (I don't know about the later versions of either book or film) he got round it by saying that the shrinking process somehow involved creating a sort of tiny bubble where the laws of our universe didn't operate. OK, this is complete technobabble - but the sheer audacity of the claim made it work in the story. | |
| Sep 25, 2015 at 6:17 | comment | added | zeta | Really, there's almost no way to do "science-based" shrinking or expanding... the laws of physics are not at all the same at different scales, and that's a scientific fact that it's pretty hard to get around. | |
| Dec 30, 2014 at 14:43 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Dec 26, 2014 at 4:24 | comment | added | JDługosz | Bug Park by James P Hogan does. His teleoperated micro robots build smaller robots, and the author exposes how you can't just shrink but need all new tooling and different mechanics at smaller scales. Also bug-sized machines don't have a sense of hearing. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 21:07 | answer | added | Nick T | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 20:33 | answer | added | user3082 | timeline score: 3 | |
| S Dec 24, 2014 at 15:01 | history | suggested | Eric | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
correct spelling
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| Dec 24, 2014 at 14:39 | history | edited | dsollen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 2 characters in body
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| Dec 24, 2014 at 14:33 | answer | added | bowlturner | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 14:26 | answer | added | March Ho | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 13:51 | history | asked | dsollen | CC BY-SA 3.0 |