Can we shrink ourselves and other organisms to any size?

[tombodrog]

Lets just say we wanted to shrink humans to 3 inches (or make a shrew grow to 3 feet). Is that possible- or will be possible in the future with better technology. Now, i dont know much about this but if we added the growth hormone or a mouse we could shrink?
On the reverse, can we grow ourselves taller?

 

[cosmictraveler]

We now use human growth hormones to increase our height. As to shrinking, I don't think we can do that now but perhaps in the future we might be able to manipulate the genes responsible for growth to acquire any size we want.

 

[soullust]

no.

 

[orcot]

No it's impossible, your new size could not hold the nerve cells that make up your brain. By the way you would look something like this

 

[Dinosaur]

There are some definite limits on scaling a living creature up or down.

It is due to the ratio between volume & surface area: Area change is a second order function, while volme is a third order function.

 

[draqon]

the only way I could think of that might theoretically allow the shrinking to be allowed is creation of a subspace with different laws of physics aside from our own universe. That is just impossible to my knowledge.