If Shohei shrunk to the size of a grain of sand but kept his same swing mechanics, could he generate enough torque to break a cheerio?

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1. happy offseason, everyone. ✌️😀

2. Maybe

3. I’d say so and I hope you’re sharing the good stuff

4. How long until Pitchers & Catchers report?

5. Cheerio is just a bunch of air. So he would just dent it not snap it or anything. But I think most small things also could.

6. Is it March yet

7. Would the bat shrink too? If not, probably no

8. Ask r/theydidthemath

9. We need a math expert on this one, it’s actually a good question

10. the comments are not appreciating this question. if I stayed with physics I would be calculating this out rn

11. If he is only a head and shoulders like the pic shows, then no.

12. r/theydidthemath could probably figure it out

13. Drink some water to sober up buddy.

14. but if the moon were made of bbq spareribs, would you eat it?

15. Wtf lmao I’m too high for this shit

16. How high are you right now and where can I get some?

17. I bet I could easily strike out regular size ohtani with a cheerio 

18. Someone got their hands on some of that good shit

19. Here’s a miniature version of Ohtani, I want you to have it Allan.

20. I dont know but I just randomly saw that Shohei follows Christopher Lloyd on instagram

21. Trying way too hard.

22. Oh yeah baby. It’s definitely the Off-season

23. I want to see a stats comparison between Sand Shohei and Kaiju Babe Ruth.

24. what are you, my physics teacher? am i supposed to set up equations to solve this or something

25. The answer is, probably yes.

    Now I’m not going to calculate the torque to break a cheerio since I’m kinda wasted, but chatgpt says it’s ~0.005-0.01 N*m. Shohei at the size of a grain of sand would be able to generate 0.017 N*m of torque from a 470ft home run off a 100mph fastball.

    Here’s my calculations, I had no clue what was needed so I supplied extra crap and im not erasing it. This is actually an excellent physics problem and I don’t know if I would have done this if I was sober.

    https://imgur.com/a/nB5OUgH

    If anyone wants to double check I’d LOVE it. But the orders of magnitude make this totally plausible. Reading other answers, mass is linearly proportionate with impulse, so it scales down in the same way shoheis size would. So I want to say I’m right. But I could be wrong and that’s why Physics is awesome.

26. nope. his muscles wouldn’t work anymore at that size. 

    he would also have trouble breathing and probably die before he got a chance. 

    and certainly some of his other life-critical functions would be faulty due to quantum effects.

27. This is insanity.

    Why wouldnt you just keep Ohtani the same size and make the cheerio proportionately bigger?

28. I hope you’ve already done all your shopping for the weekend, because you shouldn’t go out in public when you’re this stoned.