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Will we ever be able to shrink and grow stuff?

  • Written by Salvatore Rappoccio, Associate Professor of Physics, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
It would be fun to be able to shrink people and objects, but it's something we can only imagine.Jasmin Merdan/Moment via Getty Images

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