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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Speed, size, time, and every other variable you can imagine can only be perceived as a relation to something else. Your view of a a giant object moving is going to be perceived in relation to your own size and speed. The time it takes for a regular sized human to take a single step is much longer than it would take an ant-sized human to take a single step. This is because the tiny human has a much shorter distance to travel per step and much higher strength to mass ratio. So, the giant (or regular-sized) human would appear to be moving *x* times slower than the tiny human, where *x* is how much longer it would take to complete the same action.
Someone asked a very similar thing a week ago so for more information here.
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