Would an anti-gravity organ allow kaiju to avoid cube-square problems?
It is (around here, anyway) quite well known that science does not allow the existence of kaiju, mainly because of the cube-square law. bones rip themselves out To my understanding, this boils down to "If it is twice as high, it is eight times as heavy, but its legs can only support four times the weight." (I assume that it's the cross-section that gives support strength, anyway). There are also problems with distances nerve signals need to travel, but that is out of the scope of the current question.
My question is this: suppose a kaiju's bones have anti-gravity capabilities, resulting in the bones specifically having negative effective weight (Not mass), while keeping the rest of a normal bone's properties, such as strength. Would this allow kaiju to exist? Or would the weight reduction needed make the bones rip themselves out of the poor creature's body, flying into the air (Basically, the body can't keep the bones in place)?
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