Whenever you see real big boys like Godzilla terrorizing the earth, they move real slow. Is this how it would actually work in the real world?
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Generally the larger something is the slower it appears to move. Basically the Kaiju aren’t actually slow it just looks that way. For example one step might take them a full 2 seconds but in that one step they’ve moved further than any human could in the same amount of time.
Maybe. Part of imagining this has to take into account that we don’t have any actual creatures of this size to witness, and that when you break down the Physics it’d be difficult for creatures of that size with that shape to exist.
Bigger things have to move farther to “look” fast. When I sneeze, my hand moves from maybe 2 feet away from my mouth to my mouth in less than a second. I picked a random kaiju from a wiki and it’s about 300 feet tall. Assuming similar body proportions, that means its hand would have to move about 100 feet in less than a second to be “as fast” as my hand is. That is more than 78 miles per hour whereas I only need about 1.3 miles per hour to cover my own sneeze. BIG difference!
Another big deal here is organic matter gets heavier faster than it gets bigger. To oversimplify: making something twice as big might make it 4x as heavy.
That’s compounded because heavier things take more energy to get moving at any given speed. My arm only weighs a few pounds so it doesn’t take a lot of force to move it quickly. The kaiju’s arm likely weighs several tons, so it takes an immense amount of strength to get it moving at all, let alone go from 0-70 in less than a second! Sadly, muscle size doesn’t correlate with muscle strength the same way it correlates with weight, so they probably wouldn’t be capable of this.
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