This concept applies to various fields, including music, mathematics, and even the way we perceive the world. In music, scales define the relationships between notes and intervals. In mathematics, scale refers to the size or magnitude of a quantity. In general, natural scale implies a fundamental or inherent size or proportion that something possesses, either physically or conceptually and whenwe try to create something to the wrong scale - either too small or normally too large, the natural laws of scale fight hard against us, and we normally lose.