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Darren New wrote:
> I saw an interesting lecture (Carl Sagan, I think?) who pointed out that
> if we were the size of insects, we'd barely notice gravity and we'd be
> much more concerned about surface tension, for example.
Or if we were radically larger/smaller, the concept of a "fixed point in
space" would seem incongruous.
(On a large scale, planets, stars and galaxies wander round all over the
place Similarly on a sufficiently small scale.)
Why no SciFi writers have caught on to this idea I don't know...
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