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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No, it’s not a movie thing. I mean, maybe the way it’s portrayed in certain movies isn’t realistic, but the general concept is a real thing. It’s all about perspective. Basically, you’re looking at something giant doing a lot more movement and comparing it to yourself doing very little movement and deciding that the giant is moving slowly.
Take your arm and hold it straight out to your side, and move it in an arc in front of you until its pointed directly ahead. Takes a second, right? But a giant can’t do that in a second. But the giant also isn’t moving its arm 2ft like you did. It’s moving its arm more like 20ft. The distance it has to cover is much greater, so the same relative motion takes longer at a larger scale.
Turn it the other way for things smaller than you.
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