Time Dilation Comparison
Take one huge number and convert it into human time at a fixed rate — then escalate the same rate across magnitudinally larger numbers until the final figure becomes incomprehensible.
When
Use this when you have a number so large it reads as abstract — net worths, cosmic distances, energy totals — and you need the viewer to physically feel the scale in the first few seconds.
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“Jeff Bezos has more money than your brain can hold. At $1 per second, you'd need 11 days to make a million. At the same rate, 31 years to make a billion. To make his net worth, you'd need to have started earning before the last ice age ended.”
- 01Drop a headline number that feels abstract.
- 02Set a fixed earning or counting rate per second.
- 03Convert each magnitude tier into time at that same rate.
- 04End on a comparison that collapses the viewer's sense of scale.
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