Scale of Advancement ...
v We can comprehend ...
o El Guerrouj’s factor-of-1.07 over Bannister
o El Guerrouj’s factor-of-2 over average 20 year old
o Possibly Blackbird’s factor-of-220 of Flyer 1
v Can we comprehend a factor-of-21,000,000? Or even
a factor-of-5000?
Had El Guerrouj improved on Bannister
by a factor-of-21,000,000, he would have
run the mile in 11.4 microseconds