I know the rules say “don’t literally explain it as if it’s a 5-year-old” but in this case I truly think the “dumbest” you can make the answer, the better
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To be as brief as possible it just looks slow usually due to scale.
Think of your classic lumbering jack and the bean stalk like giant. I bet you can immagine him taking a big, lumbering, slow step. Which for us if we moved our legs that fast relative to our body size and position at any moment we would take ages just to walk to the end of the driveway. The giant, though he looks like he is taking a step in slowmo likely covered hundreds of feet in that one step. Sure that step took 3 times as long but it went 300 times as far as yours so really he went 100 times further then you could in that time taking three whole faster steps.
Same thing for a little toy tower that you knock down and it falls in a foot long arc vs. A giant tree being felled.
Conversely look how fast most walking bugs look, their little legs move so fast relative to their size it’s a blur. But even though you can’t cycle your legs that fast you more assuredly can outrun an ant and most bugs that run.
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