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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4303566, member: 289"] Didn't even know this happened: [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/new-york-mets-pete-alonso-opens-up-about-after-effects-of-brutal-car-accident/ar-AAZCyma?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=6a6032298df049ad9e75bbeabd258292[/URL] I've been in an accident when things appeared to slow down and one in which they speeded up. The first one was in mid-winter when I was leaving the old access road to the Penn Can Mall. I could see headlights up ahead but they were headed into my lane. The snowbanks were piled high and there was no place to go and our cars crunched in a fortunately low speed collision in which nobody was injured except the front grill and light of my car. That one was played out in slow motion and yet there was nothing I could do to avoid it. I've also been across the floor in my kitchen when a cabinet shelf full of china collapsed and was unable to get to it. That one was in slow motion, as well. But I also had an accident in the parking lot at Great Northern years later. There was a pick-up truck with an elevated chassis and a big spare tire parked next to me. I couldn't see to my left. I pulled out slowly when a car I hadn't seen moved past. I jammed on - not the breaks but the accelerator - by accident and T-boned the passing car, which had some kids in the back seat. To my eternal relief, everyone was OK. But that one was on fast forward. My theory is this: If you want to film action slowed down, you run the camera fast to take more pictures of it with less changes between frames of film, (I'm talking old fashioned technology here). If you want to speed it up, have the camera take fewer pictures and increase the action between the frames of film. when you can see a disaster coming, your brain tells your senses to send whatever information that have on everything that's going on. it gets overloaded and the processing of that information slows down. But if you had no warning of the impending disaster, that process never takes place and your brain never knew what hit it. [/QUOTE]

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