battle

You know when you're stirring a bowl of soup and nothing is spilling and then, all of a sudden, a splash of chicken noodle goes shooting up on your shirt? That's non-linear dynamics. It's the same reason water acts differently on separate scales. It's why a drop of water can hang off your nose but a gallon can't (without a bucket and a hook). The same dynamic of gravity acts differently depending on how big you are. An ant can fall from any distance because his terminal velocity will never get above the speed it takes to kill him. On the other hand, humans are one of THE ONLY animals that can die falling from a standing height. So much for evolution. *clunk*