I was talking to someone the other day who explained to me that the laws of physics as we understand them are not necessarily ‘rules’ that things on a really tiny scale obey, and the calculations we use to talk about physics on a scale that’s relevant to humans are more like estimations of what will *most probably* happen as a result. This also means there’s no such thing as a perfect circle or a perfect sphere I think? Could someone ELI5?
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Because some of physics is related to volume, some to area and some to distance. So if you scale something 100 times you have 100x distance, 10 000x area and 1 000 000x volume.
Or rather some values are squared and cubed and some not.
For example we have two balls touching each other. Now let’s scale them 10 times. 1000x more mass. 100x (r^2) less gravity force due to distance but 1000×1000 more gravity force due to mass. So 10000x bigger force is acting on a 1000x more massive object. That changes the behaviour a little
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