The World Works on a Millisecond Time Scale

There are plenty of things in physics that happen on much shorter timescales than the ones humans are aware of. I think this is a self-fulfilling loop, it works on millisecond time scales because that's the time scale of our thought processes. For example, your ability to detect the location of a sound can be based on comparisons of time differences between the two ears and the microsecond range. And by the way, again, you can do these fancy things, but at great expense in terms of volume, the amount of material you need and also the energy you put in.