Why do giant things in movies move in slow motion?

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Is that realistic? Do ants see us like that?

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It’s just due to scale, all things fall at the same rate.

If a 1m object starts falling, after one second it will be going 9.8 m/s or almost 10 times its own length every second.

If a 100m object starts falling, after one second it will also be going 9.8 m/s, but only 1/10th of its own length every second.

When the camera zooms out to show the whole thing in frame, we only see it moving very slowly.

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