About the wheels, that's only true for anything recorded I think hehehe.
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Only in a movie. You never see them turn backwards in real life.
I've got a remote controlled model helicopter and when the blades start spinning you never see an optical illusion of them 'turning backwards in slowmotion', this must either be a standard movie effect or the effect of simply recording something and playing it back with a limited (lower) amount of frames per second ...
As for the phenomenon, it's pretty interesting. Perhaps the brain is fast enough to see two different lights 'arrive' at different times, but I think the 'auto correction' of the brain would mess things up.
When I think of it, if our brain would be able to see or notice two lights arrive at different times, wouldn't this cause a gigantic smearing effect for all lights we see, because it would imply that we could actually see the lightbeams? So I think our brains are not that fast, or it may 'over correct' what we see when 'interpretating'.
Cheers
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