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).
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