It states that as you scale something up, the strength goes up by the square of the scaling factor, while the weight goes up by the cube of the scaling factor.
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I guess if you think big picture, the square-cube law is a statement about the way our world works, that it's discrete and not continuous Democritus was right and his opponents were wrong, the world isn't infinitely subdivisible, it's made of pixels (atoms)
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Unlike what the poem says about big fleas having little fleas on their backs to bite em You cannot infinitely subdivide the world and have worlds within worlds within worlds An elephant is an objectively higher number of atoms than a mouse and must have different properties
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You can change the proportions though, or give up things like speed in exchange for size. Or try to move around some of the weight.
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Bipedalism is probably an easy thing to give up if you're looking for sacrifices, but you can go for a really long neck like a dinosaur.
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Well, the heat thing is subtle. If the square-cube law were really repealed, it'd be capable of losing energy in proportion with its volume rather than area, so processing that much energy wouldn't cause temperature build-up. where does the radiated energy go? *waves hands*
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At that point, you're talking about breaking actual laws of thermodynamics, rather than just the cube-square, which is, as pointed out, more of a general concept than a strict law.
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