Your Sense of Speed Is a Lie. Here’s the Truth.
We measure the world by the limits of our own eyes, which is why we’re blind to the mechanical violence happening around us. A car’s idle isn’t slow—it’s 15 explosions a second. But the real miracle isn’t a 160,000 RPM rocket turbopump; it’s the $40 Dremel democratizing extreme stress engineering for anyone with a wall outlet.