shrink objects to be arbitrarily small

[mobeets]

What would be the advantages of being able to shrink (and unshrink) any non-living thing on command? (Also suppose that the object's mass is maintained.)

• no backpacks -- shrink everything to fit in your pocket
• no houses -- you can live in one room; you can shrink all the living room furniture and then unshrink all the bedroom furniture to "change" the room you're in

There have to be more advantages but I can't think of any.

[silky]

hahaha

i guess it's also dangerous; i could create a black hole.

also, maybe it could help transport. suppose i'm standing on a long flat piece of wood, and i strink it down. could i shrink it "leftwards" so that i move leftwards? then i could use this shrinking/expanding to get places!

[mobeets]

hahah, true...black holes are a good point. i guess you'd want things big enough that they don't become black holes, but small enough that there's no risk of crushing things you've shrunk.

also though, assuming you could shrink people, it might be fun to live in a russian-doll sort of world, where things are shrunk in a nested fashion. so you might be in a shrunk city that's inside the real city. like an inner-inner-city.