I think of it like zooming in on an image so that it's easier to process information in a higher resolution. Slow motion is like zooming in so that you can int

I think of it like zooming in on an image so that it's easier to process information in a higher resolution. Slow motion is like zooming in so that you can interpret things on a higher resolution as well (just on a different axis). Scrubbing back and forth across video is like interactive zoom where you can gather more precise information about a particular subset of the total data and compare to the whole.