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Is there any limit to size?
For example, there are things so small that the human eye cannot see, but can with help from a microscope.
If a germ could look through a microscope specially designed for them, I guess they'd see even more minute life.
What do you think?
I guess it's similar to the question, "Is there a limit to the vastness of the universe"...but in size rather than distance.
@thankyoumaskedman. But whether you're able to see extremely minute life is irrelevant.
The question is whether it's possible to have limitless sizes of life, etcetera.
I watched video a while back that you might be able to peer into other dimensions when looking at something in such a small scale.
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
Trying to scale down a microscope to a submicroscopic microscope to get finer resolution would not work. The molecular density of the materials and the wavelengths of the light would not scale down.
Living cells also have a limited range of sizes. Issues like surface tension, ratio of area to volume, permeability, size of protein, lipid, and DNA molecules, etc. prevent them from being scaled too large or too small. The large organisms we see every day are multicellular. Ultramicroscopic reproductive particles like viruses have a structure simpler than bacterial cells and are always obligate intracellular parasites.
In a sense a bacterium or virus "sees" or at least detects things extremely tiny distances away in their environments. That could be loosely interpreted as functionally analogous to looking through a little bacteria microscope, but the structure of these detection mechanisms is very, very different from what works on larger scales.
- Ray;mondLv 79 years ago
The practical magnification limit is about twice the wave length of light for both very large and very small microscopes. Electrons have shorter wave lengths, so electron microscopes can have higher magnification. Limits occur for both larger and smaller in most any topic. It is generally thought that nothing can be smaller than plank length. There may be no other dimensions to peer into, so that was speculation. Neil
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