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”The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume, the researchers reported in
by TravelPiglet 5y ago
”The new system can produce crisp, full-color images on par with a conventional compound camera lens 500,000 times larger in volume, the researchers reported in a paper published Nov. 29, 2021, in Nature Communications.”
Sounds like the university PR-department was smoking something.
- bnegreve 5y agoComparing volumes is a cheap trick to inflate the values. A cube that is 500 000 times as large by volume is only 80 times as large by side length.
- nfw2 5y agoIt seems more correct to me to say the Statue of Liberty is many thousands times bigger than a person than to say it is 50 times bigger than a person
- derkades 5y agoIt's the other way around for me, I'd interpret "bigger" as "taller"
- bnegreve 5y ago> It seems more correct to me to say the Statue of Liberty is many thousands times bigger If by many thousand times bigger, you mean 15 000 times bigger. I have to admit that it is hard to say if that fits my intuition. But it is also kind of the point: it's much easier to compare heights than volumes. edit: remove flawed reasoning while I still can :)
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Well, this is probably not the best example because human bodies are much taller than wider, so their volume wouldn't grow as fast as with a cube if you wanted to scale them. It doesn't matter what the ratio in dimensions are, if you scale up while preserving them, volume goes up as the cube of linear measure.
- bnegreve 5y agoRight, edited.