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Let's say I can freeze/rewind/FF time.
If i froze time and ran around will I literally destroy my legs and create holes in the ground according to F=MA?
This is assuming my acceleration is infinite.
Will my acceleration be infinite?
Let's say someone fired a bullet and me and i pause time. Will i be able to catch the bullet with my finger tips? What i i walked into the bullet? Will it pierce through and kill me?
What if i touched someone? Will it be just normally touching someone relative to me? How about relative to the other guy? Will he feel like he just got hit by a bullet?
Quageschi
2008-07-18, 02:28
Everything would be infinitely "hard" or "solid". You would not be able to change anything in area in which time has stopped. Knocking people over, pulling down girls pants, moving bullets, driving a car etc would all be impossible. Most of all you would not be able to move or breath, due to the air around you not being movable.
lan_rogers_book
2008-07-18, 06:29
it all really depends on the type of time freeze your talking about, if you mean time stoppers (shitty blockbuster(Im embarrassed to say I saw it)) kinda freeze then the previous post outlines it pretty well, except that it is sometimes thought that a super accelerated being can touch another unaccelerated being and accelerate it (absolutely NO scientific evidence to back that up). Or you might be talking about prince of persia kinda of time stop where all of reality is frozen but you remain to be moving at regular speed and you can effect matter in a usual manner but it cannot effect you back.
PS. in the first case, if you where to look either side you would cause you eyeballs to combust from friction
Mantikore
2008-07-18, 15:29
Everything would be infinitely "hard" or "solid". You would not be able to change anything in area in which time has stopped. Knocking people over, pulling down girls pants, moving bullets, driving a car etc would all be impossible. Most of all you would not be able to move or breath, due to the air around you not being movable.
not only that, the electrons your nervous system is sending would be solid too. you would probably no even be concious.
When I run really fast time feels like time is slowed down. Maybe I'm crazyyyyyyy. :rolleyes:
Quageschi
2008-07-18, 16:04
not only that, the electrons your nervous system is sending would be solid too. you would probably no even be concious.
1. Your nervous system sends ion's, not electrons.
2. I figured that your own body would be exempt from the time freeze.
Stuuuuuuu
2008-07-19, 13:34
I assume the method in which you froze time would allow a field of non-decelerated space otherwise you would have stopped yourself as well as everything else...
You also have to consider whether your stopping ALL time EVERYWHERE (so you're manipulating only yourself. Presumably by speeding yourself up infinitely) OR you slowed down everything around you (which would probably have a limited range, seeing as space is theoretically infinite)
If you were frozen like everything else then, for all practical purposes you did nothing, because you would have no consciousness of it.
Of course this is all logical speculation because we know so little about linear time that star trek is about as accurate as Einstein...
Quageschi
2008-07-19, 17:06
Of course this is all logical speculation because we know so little about linear time that star trek is about as accurate as Einstein...
Your credible
/sarcasm
Also I was thinking about this more and realized that if you slowed time to the point of almost stopping it, like a ratio of one planck time to one hour of your time, then you would run into the problems of broken bones and smashed pavement.
It would probably be more like vaporized body and small meteor like craters.
The air that you move while in slow time would accelerate so rapidly that it would heat to insanely high temperatures almost instantly. Think space capsule reentry times 1000. Throwing a baseball would probably result in it traveling miles and miles blowing clean through anything in its path before vaporizing from heat.
These things would not happen until you went back to regular time of course, so you would have some leeway.
Shadout Mapes
2008-07-20, 03:12
Of course, since the concept of slowing down time for one's self has absolutely no physical meaning nor basis in physics, it's rather pointless to apply physical principles or equations such as F = mA to the situation.
Quageschi
2008-07-20, 04:02
it's rather pointless to apply physical principles or equations such as F = mA to the situation.
But you can do it, so why not?
If you froze time then wouldn't you're whole body be moving faster, tehrefore relative to you the air you inhale would not cause friction?
Smelly Button Ears
2008-07-22, 20:49
When i close my eyes real hard i can freeze time, normally i wake up in a pool of blood and a lump on my head
Generic Box Of Cookies
2008-07-23, 08:30
Assuming *everything* outside of you froze, would you instantly get flung off the surface of the planet, seeing as the planet is moving at an immensely fast rate?
I think you would be better off accelerating yourself. IE, adrenaline, methamphetamine, bionic implants.
Assuming *everything* outside of you froze, would you instantly get flung off the surface of the planet, seeing as the planet is moving at an immensely fast rate?
I think you would be better off accelerating yourself. IE, adrenaline, methamphetamine, bionic implants.
This.
Quageschi
2008-07-26, 16:20
Assuming *everything* outside of you froze, would you instantly get flung off the surface of the planet, seeing as the planet is moving at an immensely fast rate?
I think you would be better off accelerating yourself. IE, adrenaline, methamphetamine, bionic implants.
No actually you would be squashed against the air around you, since it would not move out of the way.
Buttons for Pushing
2008-07-26, 23:17
Well I would assume you would need some sort of "time dilation zone" (yea I stole that from Stargate). Or else you wouldn't be able to breath the still air. Your skin would burn because everything would feel like absolute zero. And you wouldn't be able to molest time forzen woman, and whats the fun stopping time if you can't do that?
XtomJames
2008-08-01, 01:22
Something you should note, time is stationary and scalar. It isn't flowing. So technically you're talking about creating a warp field. Where your localized time is seperated from the rest of the universal time. In which case you could move at great speed, but that speed would not be infinite.
Quageschi
2008-08-01, 02:19
Something you should note, time is stationary and scalar. It isn't flowing. So technically you're talking about creating a warp field. Where your localized time is seperated from the rest of the universal time. In which case you could move at great speed, but that speed would not be infinite.
Wouldn't it be infinite to any outside observers?
XtomJames
2008-08-01, 05:53
No, assuming that the outside observer can actually whitness your movement into a warp field, the speed would not be infinite. It would be faster than the speed of light, but it wouldn't be infinite.
You would experience your own local time, as would the observers experience their local time. Now as you move your time has to remain in sync, so when you travel from point A to point B, you would still experience time. Thus it could not be infinite speed (or instantaneous).
Theoretically we could do a quantum jump, which is moving from one literal point in time while in subspace and avoiding all other points of time and emerging at the mapped point that we are traveling to. However this would require a lot of energy and couldn't be done over long distances. Further you'd have a problem of time travel occuring. (This had to do with the fact that Time and Gravity are the same thing and all things have mass and time, the movement of the quantum leap would have to be extremely limited in distances to avoid a casaulity loop. Your self reaching the destination before you leave.)
If you froze time in a region around you, would any information even be able to get to you? Wouldn't you have basically smashed its light cone into a line?
GloriousG
2008-08-05, 16:27
It makes no sense for you not to be frozen as well.
First convince me of that, then we can talk bullshit.
ViperX202
2008-08-08, 01:50
When I run really fast time feels like time is slowed down. Maybe I'm crazyyyyyyy. :rolleyes:
cuz ur running through time!!!!!
soulsname
2008-08-08, 02:44
I'm not quite clear on your intent, but if everything would stop, then there would be nothing... no heat or pressure if all particles are stationary, no light if photons aren't traveling, no vibration or sound waves, etc. Far more interesting and more plausible would be a method of "pausing" the consciousnesses of those around you, as that would only require a hold on those in the immediate vicinity, rather than a global hold on every particle.
When you say stop time, I think that EVERYTHING is stopped.
Like many have stated, no air moving, nothing, NOTHING.
You wouldn't be conscious (sp) and therefore would be unable to do anything.
In my thinking as soon as you stopped time, you would pass out or die right there because EVERYTHING stopped. Your heart would stop. All of your body functions would stop.
BUT here's the crazy part..
You would not exactly "die" because you'd be frozen there. So you freezing time in turn froze your death, and you would be undead.
jägermeister
2008-08-09, 04:57
you wouldn't die unless you were already dead when you activated the time machine. you would be frozen with your finger on the button. that's assuming that you don't have a field around you of regular time, i was just going off of your post. ^
No, assuming that the outside observer can actually whitness your movement into a warp field, the speed would not be infinite. It would be faster than the speed of light, but it wouldn't be infinite.
You would experience your own local time, as would the observers experience their local time. Now as you move your time has to remain in sync, so when you travel from point A to point B, you would still experience time. Thus it could not be infinite speed (or instantaneous).
Theoretically we could do a quantum jump, which is moving from one literal point in time while in subspace and avoiding all other points of time and emerging at the mapped point that we are traveling to. However this would require a lot of energy and couldn't be done over long distances. Further you'd have a problem of time travel occuring. (This had to do with the fact that Time and Gravity are the same thing and all things have mass and time, the movement of the quantum leap would have to be extremely limited in distances to avoid a casaulity loop. Your self reaching the destination before you leave.)
A quantum leap is when an electron instantaneously changes from one energy state to another in an atom. What the fuck are you talking about?
And how exactly are time and gravity the same?
You even spelled witness wrong, which seriously lessens your credibility.
And to be on topic, stopping time is purely science-fiction; even if you somehow could stop time, you would immediately cease consciousness for reasons stated in earlier posts: without time, nothing can be. You're asking questions that are completely impossible to answer realistically.
As I said, if you did manage to stop time around you, you wouldn't see shit because no information would be able to propagate out of the "frozen" area if I understand correctly. Light and forces would stop dead in their tracks.
TrueBudSmoker
2008-08-25, 11:48
When you say stop time, I think that EVERYTHING is stopped.
Like many have stated, no air moving, nothing, NOTHING.
You wouldn't be conscious (sp) and therefore would be unable to do anything.
In my thinking as soon as you stopped time, you would pass out or die right there because EVERYTHING stopped. Your heart would stop. All of your body functions would stop.
BUT here's the crazy part..
You would not exactly "die" because you'd be frozen there. So you freezing time in turn froze your death, and you would be undead.
Wrong.
If you stopped time, while you are still alive, when you resume time you would still be alive as well.
A quantum leap is when an electron instantaneously changes from one energy state to another in an atom. What the fuck are you talking about?
And how exactly are time and gravity the same?
You even spelled witness wrong, which seriously lessens your credibility.
And to be on topic, stopping time is purely science-fiction; even if you somehow could stop time, you would immediately cease consciousness for reasons stated in earlier posts: without time, nothing can be. You're asking questions that are completely impossible to answer realistically.
dude....i think he was qouting the fly?
and could someone explain to me why stepping would cause legexplosion?
i mean...i get the whole b/c your moving at such an insane speed, but to the unfrozen person, its regular speed?? meeeh
nothing to backup my non-legexplosion argument
Pandoras Assassin
2008-08-30, 19:00
So this is all very interesting.....Now were would one even start to begin this process?
Prometheus
2008-09-04, 22:32
Let's not forget that even if you were only accelerating your personal time, you wouldn't be able to see anything because of the doplar shift.
Quageschi
2008-09-09, 01:00
Let's not forget that even if you were only accelerating your personal time, you wouldn't be able to see anything because of the doplar shift.
You wouldn't be able to see anything outside of your time-bubble because there would be no photons moving about. Actually I guess since when the frozen photons entered your time-bubble they would continue on their way, so you would end up "seeing" instances of the outside world. I can really picture how this would look though, and once you traversed an area you could not see anything when you went back to it, since its frozen photons have already been released.
Although I don't even know where those released photons would go, maybe they would just bounce around your time-bubble until you were blinded/burned alive by the huge amount that would eventually accumulate.
Sorry if this post is messy, I'm just thinking out loud.
angryonion
2008-09-09, 22:29
This tells you how to stop time.
Its old i know.
http://www.grasshopper.com/mind-games/how-to-stop-time/
Although I don't even know where those released photons would go, maybe they would just bounce around your time-bubble until you were blinded/burned alive by the huge amount that would eventually accumulate.
That'd be a seriously funny way to die.
What if universal time returned to normal when you were dead? What would someone standing 5m away from where you finished traveling to see? Would you just appear?
That would be sweet..
"So, how did you die?"
"I was eaten by a shark, you?"
"I messed with the time-space continuum and got fried by photons."
Quageschi
2008-09-11, 07:00
That'd be a seriously funny way to die.
What if universal time returned to normal when you were dead? What would someone standing 5m away from where you finished traveling to see? Would you just appear?
They would first be blinded by the release of all the photons, and probably irradiated too.
~son~of~random~
2008-09-14, 12:51
Ok so if its improbable to completely stop time then what are the chances of surviving a state of slowed time?
~son~of~random~
2008-09-14, 12:56
What about changing your perception of time. Because i saw on tv that they dropped this guy into this net, but while falling he was able to read a previously illegible devise . Maybe just slowing the little clocks in you mind is the way. :eek:
Quageschi
2008-09-15, 02:37
What about changing your perception of time. Because i saw on tv that they dropped this guy into this net, but while falling he was able to read a previously illegible devise . Maybe just slowing the little clocks in you mind is the way. :eek:
It's called adrenaline, its makes you think faster and gives an illusion of slowed time. If you could overclock your brain, you could slow time.
wolfy_9005
2008-09-16, 10:39
Technically freezing time would make you have infinite speed, but if ,as someone said above, everything was infinitely hard, you wouldnt be able to move. I suppose a type of "time freeze" would be you move at infinite, whilst everyone else moves at x.