Why does everything scaled up moves slower while small things, like insects, move super fast.

Question

If you were scaled down to the size of an ant the big world around you would be so much slower while ants and other insects of that size would move at normal speed. A human walking would be like a big slow titan.

Is this a kind of physical phenomenon?

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Answer 1

The limbs are moving quickly, what you are looking at are the number of strides per second which due to the extra distance the limbs are moving is a smaller number as the creature gets larger.