![]() Then he goes up to 50 feet (as discussed in the previews), or a factor of 10. Scott shrinks from say 5 feet or 60 inches (to make calculation simple) to maybe an inch, or a factor of 60. The heroine Hope becomes the Wasp.Įven changing size by a factor of two can be dangerous to a human’s body structure. In Ant-man, his compatriots in raids are ants and other insects. Since Gulliver did not have the technology to shrink, or increase his size, Swift had him travel to entire societies which had tiny people, or giants. The Encyclopedia Brittanica considers him the foremost prose satirist in the English Language, and he should therefore be my hero. While thinking about this, I remember one of my favorite movies and books was Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift in 1726. I won’t be giving away the plot, but it is apparent from the ending of the last movie that traveling into the quantum realm would be a key. Besides my usual warnings or apologies for not being an expert in most of what I discuss, I am being lazy and not even looking up the literature on this. ![]() Usually we just accept life forms as being what they are, before we figure out how they fit into evolution and their environment. It is a subject of curiosity of the size of various life forms, and the physics involved, which help us understand size and structure. The Physics of Size, and the Movie “Ant-man and the Wasp”
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