{"id":215380,"date":"2025-06-04T17:05:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-physics-of-size-could-mini-me-jump-as-high-as-full-size-me"},"modified":"2025-06-04T17:05:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T22:05:34","slug":"the-physics-of-size-could-mini-me-jump-as-high-as-full-size-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-physics-of-size-could-mini-me-jump-as-high-as-full-size-me","title":{"rendered":"The Physics of Size: Could Mini-Me Jump as High as Full-Size Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dFVrncgIvos?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I watch videos on YouTube. There was this <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/dFVrncgIvos?si=C8R8XKglVyRWjVg5\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">fun Veritasium video with an interesting interview question from Google<\/a>. It goes something like this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"\"><p>You are shrunk down to the size of a nickel and put in a blender. How do you escape before the blender is turned on?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The answer is apparently that you just jump out. The idea is that a 5 centimeter tall person could jump just as high as a normal sized person. I mean, it sort of makes sense \u2014 there are many dogs that can jump as high as a horse, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I watch videos on YouTube. There was this fun Veritasium video with an interesting interview question from Google. It goes something like this. You are shrunk down to the size of a nickel and put in a blender. How do you escape before the blender is turned on? The answer is apparently that you [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}