If I was shrunk to five inches tall, only space and volume would be lost. I would weigh as much as I do now?
I would lose space and volume but since I would still need all my components to live, I would be much more dense and weigh the same. Does this mean my muscles would have to burn as many calories as they do at my current size and density?
Since you’re asking your pseudoscience consultant, the Higgs Professor of Alternative Physics at MIT, this question, he-ll try for an answer. Your mass is unchanged. Your muscles would require the same amount of energy to do the same work. But everything you’re doing is on a smaller scale. Assuming you’re dealing with things your own size, even if they have the same mass as their full-scale counterparts, you’re moving them much smaller distances, requiring less work.
The beauty of scaling the permittivity of free space, is that the chemical bonds are unchanged. They use the electromagnetic forces, and all those are scaled to smaller distances. You could argue that chemically, nothing changes.
You’ll need to figure out what happens if you eat something unshrunk.
You effect the shrinking by gradually increasing the p-field around your subject. There’s a hysteresis effect, so you’ll need to first make it a little higher than you want. Think of it as magnetizing a piece of iron. The free-space permittivity within your subject stabilizes at what you choose and tends to stay there. Decide your own decay rate for that change.
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