What Would the World Be Like to a Borrower?

Jonathan Panuelos, Laura Green

Abstract


The plausibility of the existence of miniscule, human-like creatures known as “Borrowers” in Studio Ghibli’s film, The Secret World of Arrietty, is called into question as a variety of factors prevent such life from being viable. Humans, scaled-down sixteen-fold isometrically, would encounter many problems at Arrietty’s scale, having reduced hearing and sight, extremely high voice pitch, and inability to maintain normal body temperatures.


Keywords


Film; Biology; Physics; Fluid dynamics; Scaling biological systems; Acoustics; Vision; The Borrowers

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