you need more growth solution

If you’re a scientist, you need more shrinking solution than you do growing solution.

If you want to shrink an elephant, you have to cover the entire elephant in the solution to start it shrinking.

I’m sure having a vat of solution you can dip something into would help.

Then there’s the question of how the formula would work.

It could work as a constant as far as shrinking percentage goes.

That would be best as it wouldn’t involve anyone or anything shrinking out of existence.

You could infinitely apply it to someone and they would never disappear, they would just get smaller and smaller.

Unless there’s some kind of smallest matter rule, where they basically turn into an atom, then a proton, then a quark or gluon. 

I think turning into a gluon would count as not existing, at least from a quality of life perspective.

It isn’t as versatile as a time-solution though.

Where you can dip someone or something for a set period of time and they will shrink at a constant rate. 

That would mean you could use the same vat for any shrinking problem you need solved. This would also let you solve any “other” problems you have. Just drop anything into the vat and ta-da, it’s gone. 

Sometimes magic tricks are done with science.

However, if you shrink anyone unconscious, it’s not like they’ll be able to reverse the process.

They could still be saved by someone though. Either before the shrinking finishes, or afterwards with a microscope and a bit of growing solution.

Which brings me to my next point: you need very little growth solution.

It would still be a good idea to have the vat, for safety reasons.

Anything that grows large will need a good safe place to grow large.

A big vat’s a pretty good solution.

Now on this one, I actually think I would prefer to have a time solution.

It makes the most sense.

Well, unless someone can only grow so big before they explode, or the rules of nature cause the person to collapse in on themselves like a neutron star.

But barring that, it makes sense to have a timed solution.

Wait.

Maybe not.

If the solution has to be covering the entire surface, a salve might make more sense.

If it’s a time salve, you’ll have to keep reapplying, but if it’s a percentage salve, you can get the right percentage right off with one application.

 

I haven’t even raised the question of having an injectable solution.

I imagine this would be a certain percentage solution both ways, although, you could have a time-release solution, which in point of fact, is technically just a percentage solution.

I would treat it like a poison, so that whenever you make a solution, you make an anti-solution that will return you to your body status quo.

Injecting someone with a growing solution so that they’ll explode is a HORRIBLE way to get rid of them. I can’t stress this enough. Most likely they will do a lot of damage before they go, and the only way it would work is if you were stabbing them in the back and they were unaware that they were going to grow more than they were planning. EVEN THEN, when they figured it out, you’d be in trouble boy howdy!

Although if you were going to plan a lot of back stabbing, having injectable solutions is the way to go, because who’s to say what’s in the serum? You are, that’s who.

This might make you think that this is grounds for making some sort of unique characteristic for your solution, like a solution that glows.

Let me tell you the fault with that horrible plan.

You will begin to trust the solution without verifying because of that characteristic.

Which, if replicated, say with a broken glow stick in a hypodermic (which would absolutely kill you), you will be more apt to trust that it is the correct solution.

No my friend, the best solution is to make it look like water so you absolutely have to be certain that it’s the real deal.

I suppose if you have injectable solutions, you could have equal proportions of each. 

Although technically you will need higher parts per million for the growth solution, coupled with a time release mechanism so that when you start growing, the new tissue that is created will receive new growth solution. 

Would the same be true with shrinking solution? No, it would not. Because your tissue would all be soaked at the top and no new tissue would be created.

Although if no tissue was created during the growth process from an injectable solution, and your tissue was soaked from the top, you wouldn’t need more.

That’s probably the only argument for not needing more growth solution than shrinking solution.