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If you've ever sat puzzling over a fly's ability to outmaneuver your swift slap of death almost every. single. time—puzzle no more. According to science, you're just measly Agent Smith to the bug's Neo; new research shows that a creature's perception of time is directly related to its size, meaning flies live in a world where time passes as if in slow motion.
But how can we possibly know what's going on in that fly's itty bitty brain? It's all more or less thanks to something called "critical flicker fusion frequency," which is basically an animal's ability to detect distinct flashes of flickering light before they appear to merge together. And that point at which the lights fuse together offers insight into that subject's perception of time. As Dr. Andrew Jackson (his real name) from Trinity College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland told The Guardian:
We humans, for example, have a CFFF of around 60Hz when young and healthy, but that rate lowers as we age. Spermophilus lateralis, aka the golden-mantled ground squirrel, on the other hand, has a CFFF of 120Hz – and so according to Jackson and his team, that cute li'l critter perceives the world and its inhabitants to be moving half as fast as we see them.
Source:
Flies See the World in Matrix-Style Slow Motion
Life
This is the main thing, i've felt when reading the above article.
Actually,we've witnessed this in games when dealing with bosses of behemoth size. The bigger the boss, the slower they move, thereby giving time to dodge,evade attacks and hit on their weak spots.
Imagine us a fly (from the above research) and boss as the mankind trying to hit the fly. Bosses think they're fast enough to kill the protagonist, but as per our perception they move slow because of their huge size.
Be it the battle with Guardian of Darksiders or with Giant from PoP:two thrones.
But how can we possibly know what's going on in that fly's itty bitty brain? It's all more or less thanks to something called "critical flicker fusion frequency," which is basically an animal's ability to detect distinct flashes of flickering light before they appear to merge together. And that point at which the lights fuse together offers insight into that subject's perception of time. As Dr. Andrew Jackson (his real name) from Trinity College Dublin in the Republic of Ireland told The Guardian:
Andrew Jackson said:
We humans, for example, have a CFFF of around 60Hz when young and healthy, but that rate lowers as we age. Spermophilus lateralis, aka the golden-mantled ground squirrel, on the other hand, has a CFFF of 120Hz – and so according to Jackson and his team, that cute li'l critter perceives the world and its inhabitants to be moving half as fast as we see them.
Source:
Flies See the World in Matrix-Style Slow Motion
Life
This is the main thing, i've felt when reading the above article.
Actually,we've witnessed this in games when dealing with bosses of behemoth size. The bigger the boss, the slower they move, thereby giving time to dodge,evade attacks and hit on their weak spots.
Imagine us a fly (from the above research) and boss as the mankind trying to hit the fly. Bosses think they're fast enough to kill the protagonist, but as per our perception they move slow because of their huge size.
Be it the battle with Guardian of Darksiders or with Giant from PoP:two thrones.
