Does Size Really Matter? (In Physics)

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Is there a limit to how small life can be? Or how big? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice break down scaling in physics, explain why small animals are so strong relative to their size, and why you can’t have a being the size of a galaxy.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Introduction: Size Matters
00:27 - Small But Mighty
6:55 - Why Does Water Bead Up?
11:11 - What’s the Smallest Life You Could Possibly Have?
13:14 - Larger Than Life: Getting Too Large
15:35 - Physics of Life

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