The Science of Game of Thrones by Helen Keen

Author:Helen Keen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Humor / Form / Trivia, Social Science / Popular Culture, Performing Arts / Television / Guides & Reviews
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2016-10-24T16:00:00+00:00

To create one–you just need a scaled-up, really tall human, right? Easy! Well, no. The ‘scaling up’ bit is exactly where we run into difficulties in the real world, thanks to the laws of math and physics, which govern how changes in size affect things like movement and body mass.

Let’s begin with what’s known as the square-cube law, a mathematical principle that demonstrates why sizing up is a bit trickier than it first seems. Leaving aside the awkward, irregular and frankly confusing shape of a human being, let’s begin by doubling the size of a cube. If you measure the edges of a cube and then create a new cube with edges double the length of the original, a strange thing happens. Yes, sure, the size of the cube doubles just as you’d expect, but its surface area doesn’t double along with it; instead it increases fourfold, and the volume of our cube increases eightfold. (You could make a cube out of scrap paper, and then double it to see this in action, for a bonus Ad Break Science experiment.)

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