If you were shrunk down to the size of an ant, would you perceive a human to be walking incredibly slow, is that just a movie thing?
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It’s called Tachypsychia.
Depending on an animal’s preprogrammed metabolic rate, their perception of time is enhanced. It’s why birds, mice, etc have a lightning-quick reaction time.
Other factors cause the look of slow motion to us; weight, gravity, momentum, etc. Dinosaurs would have to track slowly due to their excessive weight. In fact, they often had to rely on the buoyancy of water to help them carry their weight.
But for the sake of the question though, if a human suddenly shrank to an inch, they wouldn’t be suddenly gifted with a faster receptive rate to the environment around them. Sounds would boom to their tinier ear drums, the air would be far-more dense to breathe, they would be at the bottom of the food chain to larger predators, etc.
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