Additionally, insect anatomy would have very big trouble at that scale. At least with the current O2 content in our atmosphere, they'd suffocate very quickly.
True. And that's also an example of square-cube law. Insects breath through their surfaces and consume oxygen through their volumes. So ability to breath only grows with square of length while oxygen requirements grow with cube of length.
@@barneylaurance1865 Yeah, as oxygen requirements are proportional to cell volume in cellular respiration, which is a combustion reaction with glucose and oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide (which is why it is called "burning" calories), and the ability to breathe is created by air flux, which is the flow of air normal to the lungs' surfaces, as the movement of fluids can be represented by a vector field, and a flux is defined as the flow of a vector field normal to a given surface area.
@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Right, but insects don't have lungs - their breathing is more spread through their whole bodies. Afaik that's part of the reason they can't get bigger than they do, and they were bigger in the past when there was more oxygen in the air.
The square cube law explains why falling is more damaging for larger animals. (And larger objects in general). J.S. Haldane memorably described the different effects of falling down a mine shaft on mouse, rat, man and horse.
This is also present in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, where Rodrick said that the people who are the shortest take less damage from falls, which is why he forced Greg to climb up the ladder to clean the gutters.
Even if the sized upbant retained its proportional strength, it would likely just view people simply as a food source or a nuisance, and would be very difficult to stop.
Hear me out: Scaled down truck. If scaling up an ant makes it so much weaker, scaling down a truck would make it so much stronger. Make a cat sized truck and be able to lift anything
Well, in that case, only tiny people living in the forest from Epic 2013 will drive it, and in the tiny person's perspective, the cars will only drive less than 2 MPH, so as long as he stays focused, he can stay alive. Also, he will not get noticed by the police, so he could speed as fast as he can.
i got a solution to this problem: make a shrink ray shrink the world down to be 100x smaller, including everything in it, the material we are made up of will be strong enough to carry heavy things now we can carry stuff heavier then us!!!
Everything right except it doesn't make sense to say volume can be equal to surface area. They have different units or dimensions, so they aren't comparable. You can only say two things are equal if they're measurable in the same unit. Volume measured in m^3 and surface area is measured in m^2.
A summary of this video: Since insects, despite their minute size, could do things unbelievable in their scale, such as how grasshoppers could lift THOUSANDS of their weight (which is why it has been said that if a human being had the strength of a grasshopper, he would be able to lift a building). In this video, we happen to acquire a ray that can enlarge objects, and then use it on an ant (black ants please, not fire ants, which have poison☠) in a way so that ant would attain a size comparable to a normal-sized horse. Through millennia, horses have been tamed by man and used as the most common form of transportation before the Industrial Revolutions. To tame a horse, humans repeatedly sat on its back and got bucked off until the horse got used to carrying things on its back, and then to make the ride more comfortable, man invented the saddle. After that, people needed to control the horse, so they invented reins, and put them in the horse's mouth, and voila! The first horse rider was known. Now, back to the ant, we suggested this is because that the ant population dwarfs the horse population (and our population, as a matter of fact, for every human, there exists 125,000 ants, as ants are the most populous animal in the whole Earth), and plus, ants are easier to tame, and vegans really care about the equine treatment quality, they surely don't want to "enslave" horses to be used as human transportation. Ants are definitely animals that no one cares about and no one, not even vegans, WILL care about in the future. After our ant has achieved horse size, we will sit on its back and see if it starts bucking us off. Once we reach a point where the ant gets used to us sitting, up comes the saddle and the reins. The ant body has 3 segments: The head, the middle, and the tail. The tail can be used as a cargo storage area, similar to the trunk of a car, as shown in the second picture. Because animals become faster and stronger when enlarged, it is theoretically possible that horse-sized ants can be used as trucks, as shown in the third picture. In Epic 2013, it is stated that shrinking and enlarging conscious things perturb their recognition of the flow of time, but because we humans are using the enlarging ray, our sizes remain constant, and because we are not taking it in the ant's perspective, the flow of time recognized by our spirits remains the same. The square-cube law demonstrates limitations to such a contraption. This can also be extrapolated to the human world. What if we use our growth ray on ourselves instead of animals/insects? What if for some reason, Super Mushroom spores were found and then reproduced, causing someone to eat a Super Mushroom, causing them to increase in size? Surely, when you eat a Super Mushroom, it increases your size by 67%, turning a 6' tall person into a 10' tall person. People say that being too tall is detrimental to your health, as it would take longer for blood to circulate your body. However, Super Mushroom enlarging physics involves augmenting ALL 3 dimensions of your body and not just height. Therefore, your bones will become thicker, your muscles stronger, your brain and organs larger, and your blood thicker. In other words, you will become a buffed-up version of your normal self, both physically and mentally. As a matter of fact, it has been said that IQ increases with brain size. Using this formula, if Mario was 6' tall, lifted 100lb, and ran at 10 MPH and ate a Mega Mushroom to increase his size 10x, then he would be 60' tall, lift 50T (100,000lb), and run at a whopping 100MPH, even faster than a car on the highway. Because large size causes things to destruct upon contact due to excessive collision forces, Mega Mario can bulldoze Koopa structures while walking and barely feel anything. Best of all, he would have an IQ of 100,000. However, due to the square-cube law, it is not the case. First off, despite muscles and bones getting stronger from increasing size, there is a problem. An increased size will cause calorie and oxygen needs to increase proportionally to the volume, (because of lung efficiency increasing with the size due to air flux increasing proportionally to surface area, the latter will increase linearly), or the cube of the size, so Mega Mario would need to be in an atmosphere with a molarity of oxygen that is 10 times the molarity of our current atmosphere, as the Ideal Gas Law states PV = nRT, and consume 2,000,000 Calories every day, as his cells would be 1,000 times bigger and need 1,000 times more energy to do its usual actions, as E ∝ mv^2. Looks like Mega Mario needs to eat over-mutated foods from the FLDSMDFR in order to not get malnutrition, as even a normal-sized cheeseburger would be a crumb to Mega Mario. Second, IQ isn't really a thing, as knowledge is imaginary. It exists as data, similar to virtual data being stored in a computer. IQ increasing with brain size is purely correlation, not causation, so it isn't appropriate to say IQ ∝ brain size. Finally comes balance, the TRUE barrier to enlarging human beings to buff them up. Ever wonder why a wooden plank is easier balanced when the widest dimension is parallel to the ground? This is caused by something called gravitational flux. Flux is defined as the rate of flow of a vector field normal to a given area. Gravitational flux is defined as how much the gravitational field is going normal to a given area, or ΦG = ∯G ∙ dS = ∬(G ∙ N)dS. An object will be more balanced if gravitational flux is higher. Gravitational flux is measured in m^3/s^2, which explains Kepler's 3rd Law. IRL, Mega Mario's bones will collapse under its own weight if he tries to stand up. He may have a chance bedridden due to gravitational flux, but we certainly need a bed enough to withstand his weight. Finally, comes the legality of Super Mushrooms. Like all video-game powerups, Super Mushrooms are not tested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and because of that, they will be treated with suspicion, causing them to be considered as top-tier illegal drugs. It takes years of testing to prove a substance is save for human consumption and accounting side effects, and legalization also takes time, as first, there will be an age requirement until it has been proven safe for humans of all ages and conditions. Let's not consider any of these because we already did so much of physics, we surely would do so without being noticed by the FBI. On a sidenote, Epic 2013 tells a story about Leafmen, a tribe of tiny people living in the forest. Because of their tiny size, they are quite agile, as stated in the video. This brings me to the next point. What happens if we enlarge them to our size? First off, they'd lose their agility. Second, Leafmen don't go to school, so they will probably not understand us, so the only good thing they could be is slaves.
Well, maybe, if you become giant, your muscles will become stronger, but still, the square-cube law comes into effect. Sorry, Mega Mario, looks like you couldn't bulldoze Koopa structures no more!
Additionally, insect anatomy would have very big trouble at that scale. At least with the current O2 content in our atmosphere, they'd suffocate very quickly.
True. And that's also an example of square-cube law. Insects breath through their surfaces and consume oxygen through their volumes. So ability to breath only grows with square of length while oxygen requirements grow with cube of length.
@@barneylaurance1865 Yeah, as oxygen requirements are proportional to cell volume in cellular respiration, which is a combustion reaction with glucose and oxygen to form water and carbon dioxide (which is why it is called "burning" calories), and the ability to breathe is created by air flux, which is the flow of air normal to the lungs' surfaces, as the movement of fluids can be represented by a vector field, and a flux is defined as the flow of a vector field normal to a given surface area.
@@AlbertTheGamer-gk7sn Right, but insects don't have lungs - their breathing is more spread through their whole bodies. Afaik that's part of the reason they can't get bigger than they do, and they were bigger in the past when there was more oxygen in the air.
Create an oxygen generator
@@barneylaurance1865 Well, still, fluid flux exists no matter if the animal has lungs, gills, or breathes through their bodies.
The square cube law explains why falling is more damaging for larger animals. (And larger objects in general). J.S. Haldane memorably described the different effects of falling down a mine shaft on mouse, rat, man and horse.
This is also present in Diary of a Wimpy Kid, where Rodrick said that the people who are the shortest take less damage from falls, which is why he forced Greg to climb up the ladder to clean the gutters.
horse falls in
the square cube law is my arch nemesis
Nah, the laws of thermodynamics are the ultimate fun killers
Square cube law: "I'm about to end this man's whole career."
Even if the sized upbant retained its proportional strength, it would likely just view people simply as a food source or a nuisance, and would be very difficult to stop.
Hear me out: Scaled down truck. If scaling up an ant makes it so much weaker, scaling down a truck would make it so much stronger. Make a cat sized truck and be able to lift anything
Well, in that case, only tiny people living in the forest from Epic 2013 will drive it, and in the tiny person's perspective, the cars will only drive less than 2 MPH, so as long as he stays focused, he can stay alive. Also, he will not get noticed by the police, so he could speed as fast as he can.
You cant use a liquid to fuel the small truck because of surface tension
i got a solution to this problem:
make a shrink ray
shrink the world down to be 100x smaller, including everything in it, the material we are made up of will be strong enough to carry heavy things
now we can carry stuff heavier then us!!!
You would have 100x less neurons.
@@quantashonjamaldigglerbury4934 And 100x more muscles 😎
"scaled up ant"💀 at this point, go rent a truck
NPC ahh comment
it's more like a forklift, and don't you realize how powerful a scaled up ant would be If it DID work?
Wild Kratts be like
what if instead of expanding the ant, we shrink ourself?
Well, that has already been told about in Epic 2013 with the Leafmen.
what if you assembled 2 million ants into truck shape
🧠🧠🗣️🗣️
Everything right except it doesn't make sense to say volume can be equal to surface area. They have different units or dimensions, so they aren't comparable. You can only say two things are equal if they're measurable in the same unit. Volume measured in m^3 and surface area is measured in m^2.
square cube law is all about how volume and surface area change but of course they can't be equal because of the units so sorry for that
A summary of this video:
Since insects, despite their minute size, could do things unbelievable in their scale, such as how grasshoppers could lift THOUSANDS of their weight (which is why it has been said that if a human being had the strength of a grasshopper, he would be able to lift a building). In this video, we happen to acquire a ray that can enlarge objects, and then use it on an ant (black ants please, not fire ants, which have poison☠) in a way so that ant would attain a size comparable to a normal-sized horse. Through millennia, horses have been tamed by man and used as the most common form of transportation before the Industrial Revolutions. To tame a horse, humans repeatedly sat on its back and got bucked off until the horse got used to carrying things on its back, and then to make the ride more comfortable, man invented the saddle. After that, people needed to control the horse, so they invented reins, and put them in the horse's mouth, and voila! The first horse rider was known. Now, back to the ant, we suggested this is because that the ant population dwarfs the horse population (and our population, as a matter of fact, for every human, there exists 125,000 ants, as ants are the most populous animal in the whole Earth), and plus, ants are easier to tame, and vegans really care about the equine treatment quality, they surely don't want to "enslave" horses to be used as human transportation. Ants are definitely animals that no one cares about and no one, not even vegans, WILL care about in the future. After our ant has achieved horse size, we will sit on its back and see if it starts bucking us off. Once we reach a point where the ant gets used to us sitting, up comes the saddle and the reins. The ant body has 3 segments: The head, the middle, and the tail. The tail can be used as a cargo storage area, similar to the trunk of a car, as shown in the second picture. Because animals become faster and stronger when enlarged, it is theoretically possible that horse-sized ants can be used as trucks, as shown in the third picture. In Epic 2013, it is stated that shrinking and enlarging conscious things perturb their recognition of the flow of time, but because we humans are using the enlarging ray, our sizes remain constant, and because we are not taking it in the ant's perspective, the flow of time recognized by our spirits remains the same. The square-cube law demonstrates limitations to such a contraption. This can also be extrapolated to the human world. What if we use our growth ray on ourselves instead of animals/insects? What if for some reason, Super Mushroom spores were found and then reproduced, causing someone to eat a Super Mushroom, causing them to increase in size? Surely, when you eat a Super Mushroom, it increases your size by 67%, turning a 6' tall person into a 10' tall person. People say that being too tall is detrimental to your health, as it would take longer for blood to circulate your body. However, Super Mushroom enlarging physics involves augmenting ALL 3 dimensions of your body and not just height. Therefore, your bones will become thicker, your muscles stronger, your brain and organs larger, and your blood thicker. In other words, you will become a buffed-up version of your normal self, both physically and mentally. As a matter of fact, it has been said that IQ increases with brain size. Using this formula, if Mario was 6' tall, lifted 100lb, and ran at 10 MPH and ate a Mega Mushroom to increase his size 10x, then he would be 60' tall, lift 50T (100,000lb), and run at a whopping 100MPH, even faster than a car on the highway. Because large size causes things to destruct upon contact due to excessive collision forces, Mega Mario can bulldoze Koopa structures while walking and barely feel anything. Best of all, he would have an IQ of 100,000. However, due to the square-cube law, it is not the case. First off, despite muscles and bones getting stronger from increasing size, there is a problem. An increased size will cause calorie and oxygen needs to increase proportionally to the volume, (because of lung efficiency increasing with the size due to air flux increasing proportionally to surface area, the latter will increase linearly), or the cube of the size, so Mega Mario would need to be in an atmosphere with a molarity of oxygen that is 10 times the molarity of our current atmosphere, as the Ideal Gas Law states PV = nRT, and consume 2,000,000 Calories every day, as his cells would be 1,000 times bigger and need 1,000 times more energy to do its usual actions, as E ∝ mv^2. Looks like Mega Mario needs to eat over-mutated foods from the FLDSMDFR in order to not get malnutrition, as even a normal-sized cheeseburger would be a crumb to Mega Mario. Second, IQ isn't really a thing, as knowledge is imaginary. It exists as data, similar to virtual data being stored in a computer. IQ increasing with brain size is purely correlation, not causation, so it isn't appropriate to say IQ ∝ brain size. Finally comes balance, the TRUE barrier to enlarging human beings to buff them up. Ever wonder why a wooden plank is easier balanced when the widest dimension is parallel to the ground? This is caused by something called gravitational flux. Flux is defined as the rate of flow of a vector field normal to a given area. Gravitational flux is defined as how much the gravitational field is going normal to a given area, or ΦG = ∯G ∙ dS = ∬(G ∙ N)dS. An object will be more balanced if gravitational flux is higher. Gravitational flux is measured in m^3/s^2, which explains Kepler's 3rd Law. IRL, Mega Mario's bones will collapse under its own weight if he tries to stand up. He may have a chance bedridden due to gravitational flux, but we certainly need a bed enough to withstand his weight. Finally, comes the legality of Super Mushrooms. Like all video-game powerups, Super Mushrooms are not tested by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and because of that, they will be treated with suspicion, causing them to be considered as top-tier illegal drugs. It takes years of testing to prove a substance is save for human consumption and accounting side effects, and legalization also takes time, as first, there will be an age requirement until it has been proven safe for humans of all ages and conditions. Let's not consider any of these because we already did so much of physics, we surely would do so without being noticed by the FBI. On a sidenote, Epic 2013 tells a story about Leafmen, a tribe of tiny people living in the forest. Because of their tiny size, they are quite agile, as stated in the video. This brings me to the next point. What happens if we enlarge them to our size? First off, they'd lose their agility. Second, Leafmen don't go to school, so they will probably not understand us, so the only good thing they could be is slaves.
Yeah, pretty sure this is way longer than the script of the actual video
Sounds like a Vsauce video
thanks for the short summary
@@alanahkasa Yeah!
@@its_jasonBSF You're welcome!
Dude actually suggested making an ant truck
Is that about squirrels surviving any drop true? Would they survive landing from their terminal velocity?
a scaled up ant would barely survive a few hours 😭
1:26 wait a minute, something's happening. I think you just said a sleeper phrase.
By all know laws of aviation...
The real reason it doesn’t work is because you can’t scale up an ant
So if i get giant, like real giant. I'll just be crushed by my own weight ??
Well, maybe, if you become giant, your muscles will become stronger, but still, the square-cube law comes into effect. Sorry, Mega Mario, looks like you couldn't bulldoze Koopa structures no more!
hank pym?
Uhm ACKSHUALLY
This channel is essentially about that