How to Make an Elephant Explode with Science – The Size of Life 2
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Let's shrink an elephant to the size of a mouseand enlarge a mouse, and make it the size of an elephant,because this is our video, and we want to see what happens.First: our now tiny elephant, stumbles around and then drops dead.Tiny elephant buddy is very cold; frozen to death in minutes.Our giant mouse looks very uncomfortable for a moment, and then it explodes.leaving hot mouse insides everywhere.Why?Because of size.We are optimized to function precisely for the size we are,and would die horribly in any other environment.But, why exactly?Why does our mouse explode,and can we do this to our elephant too, if we try hard?Life on this planet is based on cells.Cells do vary in size.But they're pretty similar in their dimensions across all species.A blue whal...
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Let's shrink an elephant to the size of a mouseand enlarge a mouse, and make it the size of an elephant,because this is our video, and we want to see what happens.First: our now tiny elephant, stumbles around and then drops dead.Tiny elephant buddy is very cold; frozen to death in minutes.Our giant mouse looks very uncomfortable for a moment, and then it explodes.leaving hot mouse insides everywhere.Why?Because of size.We are optimized to function precisely for the size we are,and would die horribly in any other environment.But, why exactly?Why does our mouse explode,and can we do this to our elephant too, if we try hard?Life on this planet is based on cells.Cells do vary in size.But they're pretty similar in their dimensions across all species.A blue whal...
