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Good question. If you spend some time thinking about it, it explains a whole lot about the universe. If you take a cube size 1X1X1 with a volume of 1 (any units) and you double one side. It is now 2X2X2 or 8. So it is 8 times the volume with the same weight, or 1/8 the density. It also has 4X the cross-section, and 6/24 or 1/4 the surface area. All this is just proportional, no units need to be used to understand the realtionships. You can use these ideas to explain most of what's going on in the universe--for example. If a baby has a unit length of 1, she has a surface area of 6 and a volume of 1. Whereas an adult with a unit length of 4 has an area of 4X4X6=96 and a volume of 4X4X4=64. So if we look at heat loss (for example), which is proportional to the surface area of the creature divided by its volume : Adult: Volume/Area 64/96=0.66 (arbitray units of heat loss)

Baby: Volume/Area 1/6=0.16 (arbitrary units of heat loss) So a baby loses heat at 4X the rate of an adult. BUNDLE UP THE BABY!!!

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