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> Also, speeds like "100 times per second" should be scaled down with the size scaling, if you want a feel for mechanics. I'm a little confused, are you saying
by 100ideas 9y ago
> Also, speeds like "100 times per second" should be scaled down with the size scaling, if you want a feel for mechanics.
I'm a little confused, are you saying that the real speeds and rates in the article/this thread are all too fast by a factor of 100 million, or are you saying that its useful to perform this scaling mentally when imagining these systems to get a better intuition of their mechanics...?
- abecedarius 9y agoThe latter. Maybe I should reread the post, but it invites you to visualize a cell as Times Square -- scaling the sizes -- and then the unscaled speeds give the wrong impression within that visualization. (Mechanical properties like stiffness don't vary when you scale space and time together.) Outside of it, of course the absolute speeds are what you want to know.
- 100ideas 9y agoThanks for the clarification, I see what you’re getting at.