(eli5)Why does something spinning really fast appear to slow down or stop moving

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You could imagine a car wheel, when a car is going really fast, it almost seems to stop moving, slow down, or even spin the opposite way. Why is this?

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The reason your eyes see a series of still images in rapid succession as moving is because your eyes have a refresh rate, effectively.

Your brain basically remembers the signals coming from your eyes every fraction of a fraction of a second, and processes them into images. Then it processes new input from your eyes and processes them into images.

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