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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| Dec 30, 2014 at 14:43 | vote | accept | dsollen | ||
| Dec 24, 2014 at 17:14 | comment | added | dsollen | +1 just for quoting tvtropes back at me :). Honestly on this board, more then any others, tvtropes quoting should be nearly mandatory. I think knowing your tropes would help anyone with world building. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 16:55 | comment | added | March Ho | In that case, I don't see how it is any more magical than scaling down the molecules directly. I personally find molecular scaling a more elegant solution. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 16:54 | comment | added | ckersch | I was figuring you'd reduce the number of cells, change brain composition slightly to make enough room for central functions, etc, rather than making the cells themselves smaller. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 16:28 | comment | added | March Ho | I don't think the "scaled" interpretation is better. Scaling a human (170cm) to the size of an ant (5mm) by a factor of 300 would result in the average human cell (10-100 microns diameter) to become 30-300nm in diameter. Considering the cell membrane is 7.5nm in thickness, there is certainly insufficient space to pack everything inside the cell. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 15:15 | comment | added | ckersch | I'd read this as 'scaled' to the size of an ant, rather than 'shrunk' to the size of an ant. If you're trying to shrink the molecules, you're going to break physics before you stop being able to digest stuff. | |
| Dec 24, 2014 at 14:26 | history | answered | March Ho | CC BY-SA 3.0 |