It seems inevitable and natural that it would be dramatic as we venture beyond our comfy zone of time between .1s and 10^9s - I'm not sure why the lower end is

It seems inevitable and natural that it would be dramatic as we venture beyond our comfy zone of time between .1s and 10^9s - I'm not sure why the lower end is getting all the love here. Geology, anyone? Cosmology? It's also funny that the OP mentions astronomy as the origin of the .1s problem, but doesn't mention, you know, machinery. Engines (internal combustion or otherwise) were cycling in the .1 - .001s range in the 19th century. And in terms of the challenges of modernity, isn't the biggest modern challenge, not just to time, psychology, or physics, but to the entire notion that knowledge be organized and expanded upon by succeeding generations when institutional integrity declines and the proliferation of baseless speculation and idle daydreams is allowed to mascarade as legitimate academic content? We humans are stuck in our time and place, at all time scales. At the high end, there is no escaping the light cone. And I'm never going to experience nanosecond time. We exist at this level of zoom, and unaided humans are stuck here. So what? We range out with our imperfect instruments. No sane person is asserting that telescopes and microscopes are eyes. We get born, recapitulate what our ancestors learned, use their tools, build our own, and push back the veil of ignorance a little. What's the big whoop?