Alternative title: “Big things are not small things”.

Here are some of my posts on the physics of scale.

• Why do large objects cool off slower than small objects? Heat sinks too.
• Big Jaegers in Pacific Rim Uprising fall too fast.
• Shrinking a building in Ant Man and the Wasp.  Density. Pressure.
• The giant in the BFG shouldn’t look like a human.
• It’s much easier to use a laser to accelerate a small spacecraft than it would be for a large spacecraft.
• Bigger floats in a parade are both easier and more difficult to manage.
• How strong are hobbits? How big does a dragon’s wings need to be?
• Could you build a mini-fig scale Death Star?  Yes, but it would be huge.
• How big is that banana in Fruit Ninja?
• How big is Godzilla’s femur?
• Why is big hail so much worse than small hail? Hail yeah.
• Debris field for a broken meteor.
• Could a human fly with bird wings? Size of wingspan?
• How big are the birds in Angry Birds?
• Bigger spaceships need even bigger thrusters.
• The physics of giant Jeagers in Pacific Rim.
• The pterosaus in Jurassic World are flying wrong.
• Tiny Ant Man should be running in a much weirder way.
• How long does it take an AT-AT to tip over in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back?
• How much does Kong weigh and how strong is he? (from Godzilla vs. Kong).