OK, I asked this question earlier but placed it under the biology heading and got some wrong answers. Physicists please do better. I'm not necessarily after a quantatative answer. Here goes...
Ant body parts are designed for their size. They look spindly because of the ratio of body mass to cross sectional area is low. Coz we are bigger, we need more cross sectional area to support our mass.
So, if an ant can carry say 5 times its body weight, then if we were shrunk down to ant size (but our body proportions remained the same), how many times our own body weight could we lift?
2006-10-18
02:39:01
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