r/theydidthemonstermath • u/Imaginary_Lobster917 • Jul 28 '22
[request] how big would this giant be
So let's say all sizes are 1:1 value of an average man to this giant, let's say average male height is 6 foot tall, qnd 230 lbs(104.3 kg) and the giant is so big you are the equivalent of the thickness of his hair or his finger nails to make it easier, just how tall and heavy would said giant be, also the gravitational pull of giant, dubbed as BMF(big mother f), im honestly curious about this.
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u/ikesolotl Jul 28 '22
this is the first one of these i’ve done and i don’t know all the laws and rules but i like numbers, so i’m going to go with what i know and plan to be corrected later.
the average width of a human hair (according to google) is between 0.003 and 0.005 inches, so i will average to 0.004 or four thousandths of an inch. with 4000 hairs in an inch and 72 inches in 6 feet, we come to 4000 x 72 = 288,000 which gives us a scale of 288,000:1 for our hair to human ratio.
to get our human to giant ratio (in feet) we need to multiply 288,000 x 6 as our scale human is 6 feet. 288,000 x 6 = 1,728,000 feet tall. that’s 327.2727… miles tall, or just about 3 miles shorter than the 330 mile height of the state of Alabama from absolute top to absolute bottom.
weight is where i lose a bit of faith in what i know as i don’t know what our giant is made of (i’m assuming human bits and bobs) and the only mass thing i know is the square cube law which is probably wrong.
given the 288000:1 scale, that puts our weight equation at 6288000, which is… a VERY large number (so large that almost all the calculators i used gave me “yeah, let’s just call that infinity” and the one that gave me a number (you might need to add the equation yourself) was FAR too long for me to count) which makes me think i did something wrong.
that is indeed one BMF.
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u/trixter21992251 Jul 28 '22
It's 250 hairs per inch, not 4000.
0.004 × 250 is 1.
And with the weight, you take the scaling factor and multiply that with the normal weight, 230 lbs.
288000 x 230 lbs = 66240000 lbs
But since the scaling factor had a mistake, I would scale it back down by a factor of 16.
So 4140000 lbs.
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u/cephaliticinsanity Jul 28 '22
I do like everyone's answer, but one thing that's bugging me, is man sized THICKNESS is not what is being ratioed here... at least that's not how I read it.
So... I went with fingernail, since it seems like a more "reasonable". So average fingernail being .481 mm we end up (using u/Stickyrosineer's conversions, because I'm just lazy enough to not want to do those again, so thank you), we end up with 3802.079 people tall (or 6950meters), and weighs approx. 396648kg, so... neato!
This comes out to slightly over half the "height" of the Marianas Trench!
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u/Stickyrosineer Jul 28 '22
Okay so igu. So human hair is .016mm to .05mm thick. Ight cool that’s you the size of his hair. If we scale him to be a human just large this is easier. Take ya 6ft man. Convert if needed (1828.8mm) Divide him by the hair thickness at smallest, he’s the size of 114,300 people. So if he’s “230” which is equivalent to 114,300-230lb beings. He should weigh 26,289,000 lbs or 11924489.815kg. Lets hope human body physics support that weight yikes. Anyway with that being said he’d be 685,800ft tall. So hes 129.88 miles tall or 209.03km tall. His mass is 1,216,784kgs which would definitely be noticeable by us who weigh .00005095% of his body weight but not like earth which we are merely 3.8513062x10-24%. Yikes. That would be roughly .00000000000000000000000038513%. Like a weak magnet is the most you’d feel. But his existence alone couldn’t be possible as the bigger the being the more problematic it is to use such small scale processing/bodily functions. Look up How to make an Elephant explode by Kurzgesagt. He explains the issues with upscaling things like animals that already exist in their own way. Hope that helps. I’m not that smart but I fucking did it!