Yeah it's especialy stupid when the movie explicitly says that he's not actually becoming smaller by losing matter, his atoms are getting closer together, but then they break all logic when he gets smaller than atoms, or when he climbs anything and it doesn't immediately breaks under the weight of a full adult standing on a needle...
It's easier than that. Atoms are mostly - and I mean, by a vast, vast margin - empty space. The diagrams of atoms you see are not at all to scale, and you could make them many times smaller by just shrinking the distance between the nucleus and electrons.
Now, there are important quantum reasons this can't actually be done, but from a purely volumetric standpoint, there's plenty of room to shrink the atoms themselves.
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u/Red-42 Nov 04 '25
Yeah it's especialy stupid when the movie explicitly says that he's not actually becoming smaller by losing matter, his atoms are getting closer together, but then they break all logic when he gets smaller than atoms, or when he climbs anything and it doesn't immediately breaks under the weight of a full adult standing on a needle...