I Have Beef With The Square Cube Law

Added: 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]I hate the square cube law. And if you don't know what the square cube law is, well, welcome to science class, baby.

[00:00:07]The square cube law states that whenever changing the size of an object, the area of that object is increased by the square of the multiplier while the volume and most importantly the weight is increased by the cube of that multiplier. So what does this look like in practice and why do I hate it? Let's say you have a standard spoon. If you want to make that spoon comically large, you decide to multiply the length by 4.

[00:00:28]Making the area multiplied by 4 squared or 16 and the volume multiplied by 4 cubed or 64. So, if you want to make a spoon four times longer, you're making it 16 times bigger and 64 times heavier.

[00:00:41]So, why does this make me mad? Flight.

[00:00:43]Look at birds. They can fly because they're small. If you had a pigeon the size of a man, it wouldn't be able to fly cuz it would be too heavy. And that fact pisses me off. YouTube