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[@evangelinewood3325]

Everyone is saying things like, "This is cringy", but I'm just glad he didn't make his voice sound like he inhaled a ton of helium. People do that all the time in TV shows and I hate it.

[@boixgenius]

Lindsey Welty honestly I was waiting for him to speak and expecting his voice to sound like a squeaky toy

[@blaniac6591]

Lindsey Welty realisticly speaking, they’re right.

[@dopebrandon7759]

Lindsey Welty right

[@obiwankenobi4863]

So you don’t like it when someone eats a squeaky toy then it gets stuck in there Voice box cuz my mom had to rip a squeaky toy out of my body and told me I sounded like a gay chipmunk eating a walnut fatter than it’s own head lol ( this is a funny joke ok )

[@holycheeseitsme1129]

Ikr that's so cringy when they do that 😂

[@clare2385]

You could also drown in a drop of water, if you get to close to it. Surface tension won't allow you to escape it once you're in there. Edit: as one commenter pointed out, the surface tension might also prevent you from even entering the water

[@scp--297]

Nightmare fuel.

[@clare2385]

Nick Depending on your size, it would be .5-10 times your body size. I wouldn't drink that much.

[@explosivegaming5488]

Or you could swim out

[@sciblastofficial9833]

ExplosiveGaming Once you go inside you cannot break the surface tension. By the way, Vsauce3 said it was the same viscosity of chocolate syrup at that size.

[@jambakalsente2295]

only to get eaten by a water mosquito

[@kyoujirourengoku289]

Joe: *shrinks* Physics: Wait, that's illegal.

[@SamZarifYT]

Wait, this is a really shitty and overused meme format.

[@kyoujirourengoku289]

@@SamZarifYT man I posted this 2 years ago I didnt even know this was going to get this many likes and yeah I agree it is shitty but no one uses it anymore

[@rogerminnick6470]

Joe is going to physics jail

[@Joshi_Mayd]

@@kyoujirourengoku289 now 4 yrs

[@sporter527]

big big chungus big chungus big chungus

[@the_officials38]

You're still bigger than my bank balance

[@pinkwolf2730]

Mood XD

[@longlostwraith5106]

@Ana Myers Prayer is cheap. Send a dollar (or 1000) his way...

[@jomei6395]

TheOfficials Real even an atom is bigger than my bank balance

[@joshuaking4407]

Or my penis

[@michaelmodernsonicfan5341]

L

[@P.eHuron]

"I think I've been shrunk, or is it shrank" OR IS IT *SHREK*

[@Someone-ro5ct]

ooooooohhh wow

[@splashnskillz37]

Sooooooomebody once told me the world is gonna roll me...

[@DiggyPT]

THATS HOW I WANT THE INTERNET TO BE NOT BAD KID

[@dumbratbtch953]

shrenk

[@thesfsguy6248]

Somebody once told me I’m small as macaroni

[@Azivegu]

well, at least I wasnt the only one who watched Ant Man and was thinking about the problems that physics would cause. Although I didnt think about the fact that speaking would be next to impossible.

[@jktomas]

In Ant-Man's world the Pym particle exists, so the laws of physics aren't exactly the same as in this real world. However, in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids everything from physics to ant biology makes very little sense. :)

[@PirateOfPlayTime]

James Bond pure oxygen is very flammable so an oxygen tank would explode

[@kylekarenson5355]

Comic books are a work of fiction. By that definition, it wouldn't obey real world physics.

[@PCBSLC]

One of the things that I liked about Ant Man is that it was very vague on the details of how the shrinking process worked. Might as well just let the science fiction aspects be very fictional rather than come up with some crap that can easily be debunked.

[@kalebbruwer]

no, not sticking to their own rules of maintaining mass bothered me more. the guy literally walked around with a tank as a keyring, and another time ant man fell through the floor because he had his full weight concentrated on a small spot.

[@karleejames3717]

I've recently found this channel and have been binge watching the entire evening. I love the science mixed with the humor and editing style! Keep up the good work. Quality content!

[@jktomas]

Shrinking people isn't impossible. You forgot to put the Pym particle into the equation.

[@jeromeorji1057]

Win.

[@quarkyquasar893]

Exactly my thoughts. xD

[@doob626]

You need some unobtanium to build that shrink ray.

[@quarkyquasar893]

***** xD That fallout 3 reference....

[@Lun4812]

What is the pym particle and how do I use it?

[@dinklepuffus3878]

What if you could make everything around you grow?

[@Islay2806]

This reminds me of that episode in Phineas and Ferb

[@Semguardanapos]

Big brain

[@cuetoaa7074]

One piece reference?

[@memessemem1032]

5 sec later „Hahaaa man im dead“

[@kruisader3917]

Damnnn sonn

[@A6by]

I like how you've got yourself a "about to throw down some science" music cue. It helps you fill the Michael-from-vsauce-shaped hole in my heart.

[@KishoreShenoy1994]

The very last bit was ANTiclimactic

[@justadude4938]

Yeah, I cAN'T believe that was how they finished.

[@bagandtag4391]

I wANT you two to stop this.

[@prettydecentskele9928]

I am ANT-icipating for a clash between puns

[@agamkohli3888]

Ant

[@Master_Therion]

The best puns involve words which are ANTonyms of each other.

[@besmart]

Want to build a shrinking ray? There's one small (physics) problem… #RIPAntie

[@ASOUE]

That's okay, I'm small enough already

[@argon7624]

Just... go. Nobody wants puns.

[@cuckoophendula8211]

Back in middle school, it one day dawned on me that there would come a point when shrinking small enough would make us unable to breathe (the spaces between atoms of gas would be like a vacuum).

[@dixie_rekd9601]

wtf guys , i literally watched honey i shrunk the kids yesterday for the first time since the 90s...... are you guys watching me and tailoring videos to be relevant to me?!

[@InorganicVegan]

We already know how to expand things. It's called boiling. :p

[@47flamingpies]

#RIPAntie we'll always remember, you spicy boi.

[@cheeseburger8486]

hillary

[@crispybacon4240]

"spicy boi"? ... -_-

[@brendanlampman2701]

there was an online petition to change the fire ants name to spicy boy

[@alligatormand5737]

i call him anthony

[@isaachutsell2077]

poor, poor Antie.

[@allsystemsgootechaf9885]

"I think i have been shrunk, or is it shrank?" I think i HAVE been shrunk. CORRECT I think i shrank. Correct I think i have been shrank. Wrong

[@ViratKohli-jj3wj]

Become my New English Teacher

[@BubbleLolli]

I have s h r u n k e n

[@madide3978]

Bubble Lolli i have BEEN shrunken

[@littleblueriolu9093]

Shrunken

[@petarmitkov1056]

Shrinked

[@mxecho]

"That would require extremely tiny atoms, and have you priced those lately.. I'm not made of money. Leave me alone" -H. J. Farnsworth

[@Master_Therion]

I have a "Small Problem With Shrinking" every time I get in the swimming pool. It's rather embarrassing :(

[@Master_Therion]

Gareth Dean LOL not the shrinkage I was referring to, but great advice nonetheless. Thanks ^_^

[@syncout9586]

+Master Therion I see what you did there....

[@theflaggeddragon9472]

This is the most charming thing I've seen on the internet LOL >_

[@scorch3633]

Master Therion just lose some weight, lol

[@BigOlSmellyFlashlight]

Master Therion i dont get it

[@khandapwner6805]

Dows ANYONE here understand the Honey I shrunk myself reference?

[@ausintune9014]

KhanDaPwner honey I shrunk the kids

[@betterscorpion2791]

KhanDaPwner me

[@azuregriffin1116]

I love that movie.

[@shitpoststreet5610]

Yes

[@bristolberryman4118]

KhanDaPwner now i do

[@hentailover1387]

the big problem is getting raped by bugs

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Don't cut yourself on that edge.

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

No, your fetish is cartoon horses, based on that profile pic.

[@konstantinosliousas9153]

Ah...i see you are a man of culture as well

[@DrewK26]

Nice Family Guy reference

[@toastiplier3254]

Omg i love you (3

[@timothywatts7725]

Szalinsky is a shell corporation for Dr. Doofenshmirtz

[@lucaschulz4967]

Hey you should do a series of validating flaws with common superpowers, I've actually been thinking about that topic but with invisibility and it would be cool to see what you come up with.

[@Filet64]

Wilhelm scream!

[@theflano23]

Conjecture that's why you don't stick your finger in a fan...

[@sawyerswitzer]

I read that when I heard it.

[@sebastianrook5478]

when I heard it i went looking for the comment about it.

[@someoddusername5677]

whats the smallest you could be and survive?

[@yPGzRicardo]

Anshul_SpideyFan That doesn't make sense. By that logic, the limit would change once someone smaller is born

[@zunky242]

Triple Layer Animator

[@ThePajamaSlime]

A newborn.

[@someoddusername5677]

[Sp4rk] Pr3h1st0r1cPlayz That isn't a human though, I want to know how small a fully developed human could be.

[@someoddusername5677]

[Sp4rk] Pr3h1st0r1cPlayz I think its more the medical conditions that cause that height.

[@UntakenNick]

Fine, let's just shrink inanimate objects then.

[@Ramseas119]

atoms are atoms are atoms...doesn't matter if its an atom in a human being or in a desk chair.

[@samgriffin49]

even if it was possible wouldn't you then have to worry about its density since just because the object would be smaller its mass wouldn't change

[@thelittleodd1sout438]

Sam Griffin yeah,so a truck could be the size of an ant but still weigh as heavy as a truck.

[@JimGiant]

I see a lot of weaponization potential.

[@ezramorrison7330]

Indeed. Especially as the same weight is now focused through a much smaller surface area with contact to the ground.

[@sean2susini]

This video was amazing. I’ve been Been thinking of these concepts for a while now. It’s nice to see the illogical concept of shrinking yourself expressed on film. Laughed this whole video!

[@nuloom]

I haven't yet watched the video. I guess its becouse you can't shrink atoms, right?

[@jackbialek409]

Zajac No, it is not “becouse” you can not shrink atoms. Sorry if I offended any of you Libtards.

[@milolebaigue6239]

Edited because is still spelled wrong

[@Vits2001]

U better delete that comment before regreting

[@jackbialek409]

The Derpymon Channel Do you even understand the joke? so please go stick with Pokémon like your channel suggests.

[@jackbialek409]

The Derpymon Channel It was “edited” before you even commented.

[@donald_doe]

Good thing TheLegend27 can't kick my ass anymore if i shrunk

[@averyabbott4162]

maxwell zefanya He'll still get you he always gets you

[@YFZriderdude15]

Goddamnit who the fuck is TheLegend27?! I can't take it anymore! I see a comment about this guy on literally, I swear to god, EVERY FUCKING VIDEO I click on. And I still have no clue who that is.

[@DrStephen99]

AKmotorider150 Go watch Behind the Meme's video on it.

[@YFZriderdude15]

Thank you very much, I will do that.

[@lampscanfly7455]

The legend27 is my brother

[@rakshithm1257]

this video really changed my perspective

[@mkaatr]

Does that mean Ant Man is not legit? NOOOO!!!!

[@miti_w]

Ant man is small but with the force of a medium human

[@confucious1518]

mkaatr sorry one year late but,green screen

[@eggboy6491]

Of course it's not he's a super hero

[@MrZog33]

no no no... ant man is okay because his suit has some sort of magical chemical in it

[@percy5950]

Can you tell us if cloning would work?

[@roostermybooster]

Cloning already exists

[@simarvashisht3075]

well...it can be. Living organisms clone them selves using asexual reproduction but those are simple organisms and we are much more complex. So to answer your question, if we can somehow make it so that we can clone as well (quite unlikely), then yes.

[@roostermybooster]

Simar Vashisht We've cloned a sheep before.

[@Joel-kl3gy]

roostermybooster You can clone your dog in south korea but you need to pay 50,000$

[@mcmoistyboi4662]

It does, ever heard of mary, she was a cloned sheap

[@graytide6190]

hey micheal, vsauce here

[@kinghotcoc0]

DiamondNinjaCat dat avatar tho

[@nickvanvliet953]

DiamondNinjaCat XD

[@kinghotcoc0]

Oh you changed it

[@pinkwolf2730]

Right now I've been shrunk to the size of an ant. Or have I? [vsauce theme plays]

[@ghostie4485]

That sounds right for some reason....

[@maggieedna]

in my group of friends we call the question of what happens on a cellular, mollecular, and atomic level when you imagine enlarging something "the peach problem" as in, "if I found the perfect peach and could size it up huge like zooming in a picture so I had a lifetime supply of perfect peach, would it still taste good?"

[@maggieedna]

I dont know what you mean by "find it" its just a goofy name me and my friends use to describe a particular example of how "magic" like is used in fiction breaks down if you look at it too closely. the problem is thus: if you make a peach bigger, what is actually happening. is it getting more cells? or is each cell getting bigger? and if each cell is getting bigger is it because the molecules are getting bigger? or the spaces between them? or are there more molecules? now the question of taste: "taste" in the casual sense of "taste good" is a combination of chemo receptors on the tongue (taste) and chemo receptors in the nose (smell). smell is way too more complicated, but taste basically is a series of on-off switches that tell your brain if certain chemicals are present in your mouth/if certain chemical situations are happening in your mouth. these chemicals are various proteins and sugars and other products that are produced by and stored in the cells of the peach. the way the chemicals trigger the chemo receptors is super complicated, but it's sort of like a key fitting in a lock. each chemical is the key and the chemo receptor is the lock. If you size up the key, is it won't fit in the lock anymore, right? so back to our big peach: if you make the peach bigger by giving it more cells, your fine because the taste chemicals are still the same size. if you make each cell bigger though it gets way more complicated and it hits up against the limit of my knowledge as a curious lit major and emt. if each cell got bigger by increasing the number of molecules that comprise it, then you're going to lose at least some of the sweetness and probably most of the fragrance, but it might actually taste more sour because thats based on the concentration of ions in the peach, and if the peach is getting more molecules its getting more of those ions too. (if peachers were salty it would probably still taste salty too.) but if its the molecules getting bigger, then you wont have any taste, from the enlarged peach, unless its some sort of weird accident where sizing up one molecule makes it fit the "lock" of another through random chance. if the spaces between the molecules were getting bigger, and you could prevent the peach from collapsing back in on itself/tearing you appart if you ate it, it would probably still taste like a peach. so there you go. the peach problem.

[@maggieedna]

actually, if you made each cell bigger by increasing the number of molecules its made of I'm not sure what would happen with tastes that are salt/sour. I supose thats why we call it a problem.

[@garethdean6382]

Another question is where does the peach end exactly? Where are its boundaries. If I zap a peach on a tree, does the entire tree grow? And the roots? And the beneficial fungi attached to the tree? And the ground? As to what happens with other scenarios, the following are what me and a few biology-loving friends have come up with over the years: *Bigger via more cells: This is the best scenario. In essence you're just getting more of the same stuff, you could do the same thing by rearranging 100 perfect peaches into 1 large one. (Neglecting square-cube effects.) There'll be some changes, a bit of skin will taste different from your usual bite of skin, middle and near-pip flesh for example, but they should be mostly minor. *Bigger via bigger cells, more molecules: This is nearly the same, in the same way that 100 peaches could be rearranged into 1 big peach. Effects should still be minor. *Bigger spaces between molecules: This results in implosions, usually violent and probably lethal. Water that has twice the molecular spacing of normal is a cross between water and steam and takes immense energy to make. Your peach will instantly collapse into a mixture of 'normal' liquids\solids and gasses, mostly water vapor. This would happen quickly enough to create a small sonic boom and expel peach shards in all directions like a tiny bomb. If the magic somehow prevents this effects are relatively minor, IF the magic breaks down when you eat it. In that case the peach 'dissolves' as you consume it. Texture and taste will be significantly impacted, but it will still taste peachlike. With enough expansion it's be like sucking in peach flavored steam. If the magic endured then taste is out of the question, the molecules wouldn't be able to get close enough to you to be tasted, or possibly even felt. It'd be like eating normal flavored steam. *Bigger molecules: This is the big one; when you make molecules bigger you mess up a LOT of physics, you'd need lighter electrons for one thing, molecular vibrations would change (That includes the ones responsible for color.) Your apple will get redder, eventually turning clear, absorbing infrared light only. Taste will vanish, the lock-and-key mechanism would fail. Smell may be the same, OR it may rely on molecular vibrations, in which case your apple will either have no smell or would tend to smell weird. (Think of the difference between water and hydrogen sulfide.) It'd also be very light with no texture or resistance, like biting air.

[@maggieedna]

I feel like bigger cells via more molecules would mess up proteins and sugars and enzymes and stuff like that. I guess it depends how orderly the distribution of the extra molecules is, but I feel like at the very least the change in the ratio of surface area versus cell volume would make the peach really mushy (unless I'm doing my mental math backwards)

[@garethdean6382]

maggieedna The peach certainly couldn't live long, diffusion effects would cause everything to break down in hours or days. But that shouldn't affect the taste. Peaches are plants, meaning their cell walls are composed largely of cellulose. One of the neat facts of that is that larger cells aren't that much mushier... to a point. If you increased the width of the walls along with the cell volume it could handle a tenfold increase, though a hundredfold...

[@ebonymaw8457]

1. Everything would look very dim because your tiny pupils will take in less light. 2. Human voices would be too low pitched for you to hear, and your voice would be too high pitched for anyone else to hear. 3. You'd be very cold because your body has less surface area and volume to make body heat. 4. You would pass out because your blood's hemoglobin is too small to transport oxygen molecules. 5. It can't happen anyway for various reasons.

[@nilusharma5483]

gets shrunk and microphone recieved all his voice

[@besmart]

I'm wearing a tiny lav mic, obviously

[@markmartin1712]

+It's Okay To Be Smart but then how did it hear u when u where normal size

[@uratune8027]

You just got rekt m8

[@jacobnair6707]

+It's Okay To Be Smart Vsauce3 did a similar vid to this

[@felix-lk7ic]

+Jacob Nair ye he did

[@marscaleb]

I'm reminded of the episode of Farscape where these attackers shrunk everyone on the ship. Someone was complaining about how that shouldn't be physically possible, and listed of reasons why it couldn't work. To which the reply was "Well obviously they found a way to make it work!"

[@beastmode_3037]

*Dat pun in the title though*

[@takumifujiwara3223]

Hmmm...... Thx, now I can see it....

[@jackywackychan1940]

How to shrink your self, don't eat

[@spacestationnearyou6506]

Eden Hale it really is

[@spacestationnearyou6506]

Eden Hale it really is

[@simarvashisht3075]

not going to lie, that comment was gold

[@lIlYayolIl]

JackyWackyChan lmao 😂

[@Zencreater213]

It actually makes you fatter

[@TeslaMaster2]

The Wilhelm scream inclusion was a nice touch. :)

[@DiscipleKnight1010]

Wilhelm touched the fan's blade

[@rainman42]

Just started watching your videos and I'm hooked..can't wait for more

[@jaack278]

Just ask Rick he'll show you how to be a pickle.

[@Randomperson-hf6wu]

Jack PICKLE RICKKKKKK

[@adamswagpluh]

I’M PICKLE RICK BABYYY!

[@bluesky_cupy5158]

No

[@yowolf8460]

It’s okay to be… small?

[@jairreyes6606]

Yo Wolf No because you would freeze to death.

[@jaydenfisher228]

But it’s better to be big

[@teasis9608]

+Jayden Fisher how big?

[@SotraEngine4]

What about growing?

[@TheFanguy123]

There was this one video on what it would be like if you were a giant, but I can't find it

[@williamhavens5788]

+TheBodaciousMelon I believe Vsauce3 made that video recently.

[@alexbosworth1582]

But then you have to shrink back ;)

[@Lun4812]

There is a limit to how tall you can be though.

[@siniok3952]

+TheBodaciousMelon i remember one thats like it.

[@Firejowl]

Vsauce anyone?

[@eldi]

was thinking the exact same thing.

[@isshintheguy4172]

ikr i just posted that

[@jasehurl2155]

Yeah

[@romelacasascortes2235]

Nobody talking about film theory? K

[@jezz1217]

+romela casas love film theory

[@orenji-ov2yq]

"everything wrong with"downsizing""

[@atree8648]

"Antie the ant " "1989-1989" - this tickled me By a lot 😂😂😂

[@clintgirard677]

Irises don't let light in, it's the pupils.

[@danielbyal4440]

faceplam

[@clintgirard677]

KABLAM! FACEPLAM!

[@besmart]

Actually the pupil is simply the hole in the middle. The iris controls how much light it lets in. No iris, no pupil, AKA po-tay-to/po-tah-to

[@clintgirard677]

...faceplam

[@jojobigcoat]

So your saying small creatures like rodents can't see well?

[@jeramybotwe5528]

Am I only one that thinks this is kinda cringey

[@jeramybotwe5528]

At least the first part

[@besmart]

I know right?

[@shanzaza5455]

everything is cringy now

[@EthanTheJuggler]

SO MUCH CRINGE

[@EthanTheJuggler]

But a good video tho, lol

[@elaina3993]

When you click on this video: Thinks *This is gonna be awesome!* Reality: So. Much Words. CAN'T. KEEP. UP...

[@toughluck8012]

"So much words" 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@earthtominiryu]

so *many words, not so much words uwu

[@jonathanwalther]

Thank you for addressing this and that I randomly found it. Some days ago the question popped into my mind: Does shrinking basically mean shrinking atoms? And would this bei possible? Or does shrinking mean, we lose a majority of our atoms/cells and are just comprised of less cells (e.g. like a mouse)? And would under these circumstances a human brain be possible because of the huge lack of nerve cells? (I think: no)

[@irish_nugget2277]

Ant man had a protective suit with oxygen atoms small enough in it to breath

[@JordanBeagle]

Love the memorial for Antie the Ant at the end. R.I.P. Antie :_(

[@nsebinyang]

but if your body is smaller doesn't it need less oxygen?

[@frantic8584]

It does, but why does that matter?

[@nsebinyang]

Frantic I mean in the video it says something about not getting enough oxygen?

[@frantic8584]

yea but the amount of oxygen needed isnt connected to the size of the molecules, the size of the oxygen molecules stays the same.

[@frantic8584]

the molecules won't fit in our blood system

[@aldenasher8]

Frantic I don't think you know how small an atom really is

[@thatchimichangawhoneedssom3148]

So my giantess fetish won't happen?

[@konanwilsonfriese2150]

rip chimichanga he couldn't get the giant women

[@ritzy4593]

Konan WilsonFriese I was thinking kinda of the same thing... I hate having macrophilia.

[@konanwilsonfriese2150]

RitzyBitz30 Yeah, it does suck having either micro/macrophilia since most of those fantasies will never happen (anytime in our lifetimes, at least.) I'm into that stuff and considering my fetishes cloud any attraction to actual sex, it sucks. rip me never busted a good nut

[@konanwilsonfriese2150]

vary soft kitter eating sppagoni no, unless you orgasm i'm pretty sure that's how it works

[@ChrissehCat]

I'm sad I can't shrink my enemies and torment them in the privacy of my own home. Oh well, off to play Sizebox and smash some cities with an anime styled model.

[@ohioanmapper322]

Well, if you just shrank yourself to one quarter of your size, then this stuff wouldn't take effect.

[@HexagonThatReallyLikesVinegar]

No. It would still apply but on a smaller scale,you should just not shrink at all or just shrink to half size.

[@brokenwave6125]

That's not really outside the realm of already existing biology though... The worlds smallest person on record was under 2 feet tall and weighed 32 pounds. 32 pounds is already less than a quarter of what most people weigh.

[@rizizum]

@@brokenwave6125 But you'd be shrinking the atoms of your body, making it impssible for you to breathe

[@BombasticBruhs]

@@brokenwave6125 You'd have to keep the amount of atoms that you already have, people that are just short have less atoms, shrinking to that size does not mean you'd live as they do, you'd still be shrinking the actual atoms down in size, which is still very not possible.

[@3c3k]

yes but how would you shrink watch the whole video

[@friedturkey3866]

I wish this was the type of lessons we get in school!

[@Khether0001]

nah... Futurama solved this, they just need to use really really tiny atoms, but they cost a fortune lol 😁

[@power-max]

This feels very... Vsaucey!

[@TyzulaShipper183]

It's a fetish. That's how it works.

[@dawnroyfire7498]

?

[@lowtiersquad9553]

Eyyyyy someone gets it.

[@dawnroyfire7498]

I honestly don't know what's going on.

[@mxsdrago]

DawnRoyFire! It seems there is either a giant fetish or a tiny fetish.

[@dawnroyfire7498]

Ah I see

[@general_panda8022]

He blends in the info so well

[@nixthelapin9869]

I’m glad you brought up breathing. I remember wondering about that when I watched Ant-Man (I’m guessing his mask allows him to breathe or something)

[@yazmuraben8462]

WHAT A HILARIOUS PUN IN THE TITLE! IT ONLY MADE ME VOMIT TWICE!

[@mikeries8549]

When I told the wife were going to double in size she quickly responded that, 'we will weigh eight times more and that's not good for my new floors"..

[@riptide_311]

Wow you blew my mind with facts. Time to tell me teacher

[@ChrisHaastrup]

I liked the human effects of being shrinked, and im actually quite satisfied with myself for understanding this so well

[@seanbeahn6895]

This dude just casually shattered the foundation of the universe and destroyed what was left and didn't even look that concerned about it........

[@NXeta]

These guys should be fun at parties

[@fy25song]

Screw all the haters. I love your channel !

[@weirdwalrus5757]

I know this is dumb, but if processor speeds and hearing (frequency) is measured in Hertz, Do processors make extremely loud sounds that we can't hear?

[@drearyplane8259]

Weird Walrus Pretty sure that's not how it works. I think the Hz is cycles per second.

[@azuregriffin1116]

DrearyPlane8 correct.

[@OldGamerNoob]

Not to mention the fact that IF you could just remove the "Empty Space" the mass would be the same and you would be so dense you would punch through the ground you're standing on.

[@grapy83]

That's a great episode. I remember I subscribed to your channel just because of how good this episode was. Also I loved your "otter" episode.

[@buzzbuzz3232]

"Shrunk... or maybe shrank" what about shrekt

[@OmgTurtlezWasHere]

Vsauce Jake here.

[@thunderflare59]

"That Zillinski machine should be illegal." It is.

[@griffinhaunts5496]

Reminds me of when the Ant-Man film said that shrinking was done by pushing atoms closer together, and then proceeded to shrink Ant-Man to be smaller than an atom.

[@davegoldspink5354]

Great job on the video. As much as I scoff at Hollywood physics and science you’ve once again given food for thought 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@taliakellegg5978]

"I'm pretty sure I just broke several laws"

[@-aaa-aaa]

Oh hey Vsauce3! You uh, you look a little different. Did you get a new haircut or something?

[@garethdean6382]

Check the description, he's linked there.

[@ikka489]

"it would have looked a little more like this" BOOM

[@hikhuphoenix4107]

Surely, this ray could act much like a teleporter: destroying you and then recreating a viable, smaller version of yourself while moving the majority of your atoms into another plane on the fourth dimension. This would, of course, change your species, but ho-hey.

[@HULKSMASH1145]

I want a behind the scenes video of how u guys do all the research and stuff for these videos

[@redraiden4632]

my dreams are dead.

[@Casedilla73]

Would someone’s voice actually sound higher-pitched if they were small?

[@Leo-ws3bp]

Yes

[@froicalangi2946]

Jake you look different

[@AbiolaAfuwape]

The hemoglobin can't be smaller than the oxygen molecule because it is a protein which is made up of amino acids and amino acids contain at least two oxygen atoms from their carboxyl group. If you can't shrink the oxygen atoms in the oxygen molecule, you can't shrink the oxygen molecules constituting some of hemoglobin

[@GlacialBolt]

“Very low chance to be anywhere” Electrons 8 miles away from their atoms

[@AndrusPr8]

I wonder of there was ever an atom bigger than a planet...

[@musamnguni5786]

RIP Ant-thony

[@ruqaias9885]

No! NO!

[@onichan924]

He looks like Matt from Super mega.

[@treebacon]

3:49 he sounds like kermit the frog

[@Kyleplaysgames567]

Maybe it works like how it does for Ant-Man by shifting matter between dimensions. The atoms themselves also get smaller and the mass scales proportionately.

[@fire942edits8]

Title:the small problem with shrinking yourself me:whats the problem u r shrunken *confusion *

[@liamgardner2985]

Also, even though you’re small, you still retain the same mass. That means you would still weigh as much in your small size as your full size.

[@MrBroadcasting12]

I think one of the vsauces did this first lol.

[@abecerra9365]

Rip downsizing for me

[@skelaxo]

Sometimes this channel crushes my dreams with science

[@siuu5660]

When he sat on the Lego mans arm I looked at a Lego mans arm that was in my room and I was like "jeez he's really small"

[@pignugget1243]

downsizing

[@Chelsea_2001]

Pig Nugget that movie sucked

[@-mae-5524]

INEED DA WIFI

[@simarvashisht3075]

what the.....

[@-mae-5524]

I NEED WIFI

[@Coinfliptails]

Main problem. Food. There is really no way to properly grow it, or farm stuff at its size.

[@BombasticBruhs]

I mean, past instant death, sure

[@jakoborrazor4059]

Penn Particles, the only explanation we have or need.