With all the things that here abound,
But also things we’ve yet to fathom?

V.Brusov, “The World of the Electron”

I took as a standard an ordinary domestic Pharaoh ant, Monomorium pharaonis.

It was discovered by Carl Linnaeus and got its name thanks to archaeologists who discovered their bodies in the Pharaonic graves. Let’s take their size – three millimeters.

Let’s take the average human height of 1662 millimeters. This means that the linear dimensions of such an ant are 554 times smaller than the height of a human.

We will take the weight of a person for 60 kg. Since volume is a linear size in a cube, it means that considering an ant to be a man reduced in volume by one hundred and seventy million times, its weight is 0.35 milligrams. And real ants weigh from three to five milligrams. This means that the average density of their bodies ranges from 8.6 to 14.2 times the DENSITY of the HUMAN BODY.

Considering the density of the human body to be approximately equal to the density of water (85% of our body is water), it turns out that ants, in density, “consist” of cadmium or even mercury frozen at minus 39 degrees Celsius!

What kind of substance, protein, chitin or any other organic matter, has such a high density???

But the shape of the ant’s body is different from that of a human, and even a young woman with a very thin waist is still far from the “waist” of an ant!

If I am wrong in my calculations, please: Point out the error convincingly and argumentatively!

14 XII 2024