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Other animals have way smaller brains than humans for how smart they are, so there is certainly room to shrink a brain, but not to any arbitrarily small size without a significant overhaul of how brains work. The biggest constraint is going to be making the brain smaller. maybe not 2-3 inches smaller, but something in the rat-to-house cat size seems pretty achievable. But other mammals exist that have all the same organs we do, only smaller so, by editing away most of our redundant tissues you could make humans way smaller. Humans are made of predictable patterns of cells. You can not make the molecules smaller, but you can re-arrange them to make fewer and smaller cells. Once you have saved a person's pattern, you can then choose to edit it before re-assembly.

but this is not the only way such a technology could be used. The idea of a standard star-trek style transporter is that your scan a person, destroy them, and then make a copy of them somewhere else creating the illusion of light speed travel. The shrunken person is a transporter duplicate It uses polarized Leckie particles to manipulate the De Bodard field in anti-Green manifolds via the Walker-Xu interaction.

Use people's names to avoid explanations.

It's not a shrink ray, it's a molecular magnitude destabilizer.

Use big words to say what the item does.

If you're not writing hard SciFi, then maybe technobabble would fit better. Since we don't want the beam to fry the person, we'll say it's made of neutrinos which barely interact with matter (I don't think neutrinos really interact with Higgs bosons either, but this is soft sci-fi). Then particles have less energy so other forces pull them closer together. So let's say the beam blasts away Higgs bosons, which lowers particle mass. The Higgs field has to do with giving particles mass. We need people to lose mass without losing particles. Say you don't care about it being possible. The human is taken apart by the beam and the data is put into a tiny robot, which either has an extremely efficient brain, or is operated wirelessly from a data center. The person is replaced by something that works at smaller scales Maybe the beam flashes a pattern of lights that hypnotizes them or knocks them out, and they are then brought to a VR setup or scale model. In this case, the person stays the same size, but is hypnotized into thinking they have shrunk, or otherwise has their senses tricked into thinking they have shrunk. Then a bunch of structures are lost, so that can't work. Now suppose it shrinks but doesn't maintain the same mass. Then it is under extreme pressure which will destroy the structures of the brain. Say it shrinks but remains the same mass. If you're trying to minimize the fantastic elements, it's helpful to look at why shrink rays don't work.

I think that it can shrink something a major amount in the novel they accidentally shrink a group of kids to around 2-3 inches tall.

How could I make a less fantastic version of that?īecause of a group of questions by Nosajimiki: Basically it's the shrink ray from Honey I Shrunk the Kids.Probably not handheld-level compact, but shouldn't be massive. I don't want it the size of a house or so. It must be able to be in a semi-compact space i.e.The laser is pure handwavium, since I can't think of any realistic way to make it work otherwise.

Note that they couldn't care less about cost, the government is paying for it. But hypothetically, what would be the most plausible way to make a shrink ray? Conservation of Mass, Square-Cube, brain area, lungs not working, the list goes on. Kind of like the one in Honey I Shrunk the Kids, and involves a small Laser-esque (or Laser) beam that shrinks the thing it hits. I'm working on a novel, which involves a shrink ray.