When Machines Learn to Feel Time

The moment that made this problem real Scroll through your social media feed for ten minutes and you'll encounter it dozens of times: a clip of a hummingbird frozen mid-wingbeat, its feathers splayed like a tiny green hand; a basketball player's dunk stretched into four elastic seconds; a car crash replayed at a tenth of normal speed so that steel buckles like wet cardboard. Then, thirty seconds later, a time-lapse of a flower blooming, a city waking up, a storm rolling across a plain — all the