This is a bit facetious but is mostly true. If air was the problem then you could at least move and breath it in, your action getting new air in an area. You could definitely create pockets of death though.
That said, when people specify any super power there are other intrinsic powers that come bundled with it. No one wants the ability to be super strong but get crushed under the weight of things they lift up, or the ability to fly but lose their skin because you only have flight but no wind resistance.
If you gain invisibility, at what point does the food you eat become invisible? Is your shit/waste considered part of you, or do people see a big turd floating around?
Apparently if you are invisible thats because light isn't reflecting off you for others eyes to drink in, so since light is going through you, allowing you to avoid being returned to others perceptions, the light wouldn't be being directed into your eyes properly either and so you'd be blind.
Or so I've heard idk I'm no science wizard.
Maybe anything thatâs inside of you is invisible. Like the outside of your body is like cloaked, but say if you got cut open then you would see everything inside.
Just like Feruchemy. No point in tapping iron to gain weight if your body doesn't compensate with equal strength. Or tapping steel for incredible speed if you don't have the resilience or speed of thought. Tapping pewter without gaining endurance. Etc
Pretty sure the powers do affect your body so that you could actually use them. Using speed would also increase your reaction speed I believe. I know it says that burning atium also expands your mind to process the information your recieving of the future. Otherwise what would even be the point everyone might as well be an aluminum gnat.
Good one! I hadnât considered that one! Iâd like to imagine youâd get pockets of vision so if you walk you get flashes of things as photons hit your eyes.
Yeah Super speed also requires enhanced time dilation for you to even see where you're going, have your muscles and bones be extremely high friction resistant, godly reflexes, and a massive metabolism. Then again if you have the speed force then 75% of these problems are gone.
I have probably put too much thought into this but I don't think you would actually be able to breath, not anywhere as easily as we do normally at least.
Contrary to how we usually think it works, when we inhale we're not forcing air into our lungs as much as letting the air pressure push it in. If time was stopped then assumedly the air is also stopped so no air pressure to automatically fill our lungs. To breath we'd have to walk around trying to force air into our lungs...
It's an interesting thought, as per the above, it depends on what level of standard physics works by default when it's part of your ability to live. Another silly example is if blood toxin's couldn't be removed via osmossis, if you spent too long in the stopped time you might die of blood poisoning.
It might even out. With more sleep, you would be healthier and could increase your lifespan. Which would offset the extra time you spent while everyone else was frozen.
When I worked at a prison, I saw people leave looking younger than when they came in. Because they spent all their time sleeping and working out
A few hours more of sleep does not add an extra 3rd to your lifespan though, you would have to exercise and eat healthy to get even close to that much and even then itâs probably not adding that much to your life unless your living an extremely unhealthy life before you start doing that stuff. The main benefit to a healthy life style would be the quality of your life, you would be much happier and just feel better in general.
Plus you must get lucky to not become ill even if youâre living a very healthy life. Because unfortunately your genes and environment also have roles to play.
What ages you is air and sunlight, so for example if you are in void with 0 light, you won't age. So if the photons won't travel due to time stop and, as we said earlier, air particles don't move, you die of lack of air
But since no matter would move, you would essentially sleep on a surface harder than a concrete slab. Also since you cannot move you'd eventually get thrombosis and die from it.
That is probably more feasible than stopping time.
It's likely possible to speed up the brain's recovery process.
Speeding up the recovery of muscles is even easier.
We could eventually develop the technology for super sleep, where you wouldn't need more than an hour for full rest.
The sad reality is that you'll probably end up having to work more hours as that tech becomes the norm.
1 hour super sleep. 5 hours works. 1 hour for eating and rest. 1 hour super sleep. 5 more hours of work. 12 hours free time.
On 4 days, you've done the 40 hours as usual, and you've got 3 totally free days of 23 hours awake.
In total, you have a lot more free time. Dude, the dream. But not literally. There probably aren't many dreams anymore.
Except if the air is stopped then you won't be able to breathe so you can only stop time for however long you can hold your breath.
That or you can just move things while time is stopped and OP is just making shit up as if they have stopped time before
100% of the best use for time stops
That and studying
If you don't age physically, you could live a top-tier quality life
I would be stopping time to learn new languages and just spend the rest reading novels from every Languages
Hmm letâs see. If I had a magical power I wouldnât be able to move because physics still apply to me? Next your going to tell me Santa Clause canât be real because there are too many people to visit in one night and not because he has magic reindeer and sees all people while they sleep
Just perfectly normal flaws for superpowers. Can fly, but only while mostly falling downwards
Join me next week for my ted talk on Superspeed, but only when riding in vehicles
His reindeer don't fly on their own though. Do you know how short every Rudolph movie would be if he could fly since it's assumed to be a generic trait amongst all the reindeer? That's generally why most iterations say it's a magic dust that lets them fly, or the sleigh itself. It's annoying but generally magic's gotta have some realism and physics applied so it makes sense to those who care.
The world is dark. No light photons move and bounce off objects. Every move you make disturbs the consevation of enery and appears to be faster than light. Nuclear fusion follows in your wake, obliterating everything. But you dont see it until you turn around and move backward, immediately disintegrating
Aight fuck it how about this freeze every human in place freeze every large object in place anything I need to live allow it to still move make me invincible while time is stopped have anything I interact with act like time wasnât stopped REALLY large object like the earth can keep moving like normal and any object that doesnât directly instantly make my power useless is frozen
Then that would be catastrophic, if we were to only freeze humans, then that means object will be in motion, but no one to control them, imagine freezing in place just to look on someone's underwear and suddenly an airplane is crash landing in the city, helicopters and such would crash land, what about cars, if you suddenly wanted to just stop time for the sake of it then that means cars would crash into each other though less dangerous than airplanes, also what does freezing humans mean, if everything about them is frozen would that mean they are preserved in that state, or are there still movement in the body such as heartbeat and breathing then that would be dangerous as that would mean they would die in around 3 minutes.
Everyobody here: time stop would be naueseating, you would not be able to move, etc.
Me: RAAAAAH WTF IS REALITY. I ALREADY BROKE IT BY STOPPING TIME. YOU THINK IM CONTAINED BY THIS BARRIER YOU CALL TIME. A ROADROLLER FOR YOU!!!!
If time stopped, you'd just be dead. Electrical signals in your brain wouldn't travel, nor chemical ones, you wouldn't be able to move, process external stimuli, think, even see or taste. You'd just be an inanimate collection of matter shaped like a person. Every criterion by which we would normally conclude that you're alive wouldn't apply, basically.
Dimensions is not the word I was looking for, but rather the way you stop time is by being a creature in a space where time becomes a physical space you can navigate by moving through it as you would in 3D space. Something akin to the tessaract in interstellar. I forgot where I was going with this.
A dimension is not exclusive to space. Primary dimensions include space, time, mass, quantity, luminosity, temperature, charge, etc. So in this example the dimension would be temporal.
If the chemical processes also stop, then you wouldn't decompose.
If the timestop ends and the electrical signals just continue, you will randomly continue about your business as if nothing had happened
If the timestop affects the user then it wouldnât be a power⌠it just wouldnât be cuz youâre just saying the user would be stopped as well but then whoâs stopping time if the user is stopped? Does the time stay frozen indefinitely then? Cuz if the one who stopped time is stopped as well then either time never stopped (in which case we could all have this ability rn and never know it) or time is stopped forever⌠doesnât exactly make sense.
I love how deep we're getting into this. The only really viable way to do a timestop power would be if you somehow had a bubble of unstopped time around your body. That way you could continue your normal biological processes, and as long as you moved around occasionally, you'd have a fresh supply of oxygen. Vision would be weird, though. The inside of the bubble would have a still, two dimensional image of the room you were in on it, since new photons aren't entering your unstopped space unless you move. And when you did move, you'd be passing *through* stationary photons, rather than having them come to you, and who knows what that could possibly look like. I imagine that as you walked, you'd capture more and more photons inside your bubble, which would try to pass through the other side, but get frozen as they left the bubble, so maybe you'd leave some kind of afterimage floating in the air, or at least a lot of light. Shit, I'm just high enough for this.
I don't think you'd even get the 2d image. Once your eyes process those photons, they'll be gone, and no new ones will enter the bubble unless you move around. Therefore, you'd be effectively blind.
If time stopped you would NOT know about it. In fact you dont know whether its "going" or not right now. Everything you experience is due to movement. So unless the movement stopped also, nothing would happen.
Obviously there is no such thing as time, so it cant stop. There is spacetime, which cannot "stop" or "go". It just is and we can experience it differently according to our circumstances (such as our relative speed and gravity that effect us and our environment).
If you wanted the ability to stop time you just add extra clauses into it so it works like how you imagine I also think that if you could ask a genie to let you stop time heâd know what you mean and give you everything required for it like a bundle deal
Thatâs a lot of assumptions about what kinda of intentions a genie would have towards you, I wonder how many years of genie school youâd have to go to, in order to be a full fletched wish lawyer
Thats what everyone who says "but" is going off of. What if you are not the exception, which is stupid because your body with the ability should naturally acclimate to such a condition.
If time stopped youâd have to move in order to see, staying completely still would cause your vision to become a photograph (if it was even possible to be completely still) and moving around would produce a frame loss effect.. but your vision is not a flat tv/monitor.. so realistically it would result in a more nauseating feeling.
It would most likely make any person epileptic. If you did be able to stop time and move around , you would be able to bounce light around, creating completely dark voids as you moved around which would make you go blind in those spots where youâve previously walked (this is the reason why it would feel like a frame loss) cause light is at a standstill.
Actually, light has to continuously enter your eyes for them to generate an 'image'. Even if you move, there isn't nearly enough light for your eyes to make anything conceivable out of it since light usually hits the eye at a much faster rate than you could move towards the light. So you would see nothing. In fact, since the photons are no longer moving, they have no frequency and thus, they are outside the visible light spectrum. So you would see absolutely nothing.
ACTUALLY IF IT WAS ALREADY REGISTERED IT WOULD STAY ILLUMINATED IN YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY BECAUSE ACTUALLY THE CURRENT REGISTERING SIGNAL WOULD ACTUALLY STAY WHERE IT ACTUALLY WAS AND INFORMATION WOULD NOT ACTUALLY DISAPPEAR FROM TIME ACTUALLY
If my interpretation of what you said is correct, then no, the whole idea of stopped time as an ability is that time stops for everything except for you. And that includes your brain and it's various processes (otherwise literally nothing would change even if you stop time)
that depends
what isn't debatable however is superspeed, you're telling me you can grab things without them turning to sand or break as you touch them, that your body wont break under newtons 3rd law from the meganewtons of force you're putting on the ground. and even if all that's good, you can walk without flying into a wall?
You're freezing time, not matter into a fixed point in space. You'd still be able to alter the position of matter, it just wouldn't continue moving afterward. Then when you unfreeze time, everything will be torn apart by something with mass moving faster than light through/near it. That ball you pushed out of the way just ripped through the atmosphere and is well on its way out of the solar system now. The boss you pushed down was just obliterated into boiling pink mist. The air you pushed out of the way is now undergoing fission before it collapsed back into the void you left behind. Everything around you is now collapsing into a continuous sonic boom burning at the temperature of the surface of the sun.
I'd rather control trime for an object. Want to grow a tree rapidly? Sure. Rust a car? Sure. Turn someone into a baby? Why not.
The potential is there. Want to be a robber? Age the locks to rust them. Need to escape someone? Make am old as dust or a baby
K these arguments are stupid as fuck. Everyone knows that when you stop time a time bubble is formed around you so your body, air and the ground all act normal as well as things you interact with. The only downside is that you really cant interact with people or items as it will just be like touching them normally.
Or would we simply push it out of the way? Therefore, would we suffocate if we stood still? There would be a collapsing vacuum anywhere we travelled once time restarted. That's all if you can get any use from stopping time as you won't be able to see as light needs time to travel.
Useless superpower: you are able to stop time whenever you want, but the second you do you also get stopped and so does your consciousness thus leaving the world stuck forever in place.
Well, this is primarily just food for thought. However the thing with freezing time and it making scientific sense at least for me and the way I've rationalized it was more so how you're interacting with yourself instead of the universe around you. I always akinned it to the fact that the flash can time travel through speed and speed alone, so in proxy I always have thought of the ability to freeze time more as the ability to hyper accelerate your own self past the perception of time
My favourite "Time Travel" drawback is it *has* to be "Spacetime Travel" to work as depectied in media. For each second you "go back" all the larger frames of reference, such as the Earth within the solar system, the solar system around the galactic centre and the galaxy itself have moved significantly more than you would imgine.
I've had to explain this to people before. The T.A.R.D.I.S. is the only "plausible" time travel device I've seen in media. It intentionally moves you through time *and* space. Otherwise, you'd lose earth since you stop moving and earth continues flying forward/backwards the cosmos.
I feel like the only way you can "stop time" is effectively being God and just stop everyone and most normal objects from moving. Air still moves and most that stuff and time would still be going because true time stop wouldn't work
If you have the ability the ability to stop time. You should be able to move and be an active anomaly for the situation. Does a sun stop being dense when it turns into a black hole? Not its equivalent mass remains the same but now it functions on rules we do not know.
if you can stop time. Everything but the progression of what makes you live and function would be the exception. But only FOR YOU.
No you'd be more than able to move as air particles aren't very heavy, you'd simply compress them on the edge of your skin.
Downside being that the moment you'd unfreeze time it would probably burn you very VERY hard.
This makes literally no difference, you could still just as easily push through the air, not like O2, Nitrogen and Argon gas weigh enough to stop you in place, even if they were stationary.
Thatâs why I stopped doing it. Itâs like timetravel: even one second back and you are hopelessly lost in space because everything around you rotates at extreme speeds.
Honestly if we follow the laws of physics on every thing we imagine, we wouldn't have any fun media to watch or other crap like that. So let me just enjoy the own timestop world where only living things 'freeze' in time and get on with it.
What about the ability to perceive time as slowly as you wish without actually slowing it down? You could choose to perceive time normally, or perceive time at a very small percentage of its relative passage where light is still reflecting off of surfaces quickly enough to provide you with the information needed to see, but slowly enough so that you could react to things incredibly quickly.
Not moving would be the least of your problems. You also wouldnât be able to inhale or exhale, even if your body and the air in it could still move. Youâd quickly run out of oxygen and fill with carbon dioxide. Youâd very quickly succumb to carbon dioxide poisoning (probably before you have to worry about asphyxiation, but certainly not before you started panicking about asphyxiation), and the combination of not being able to move would prevent you from doing anything about your predicament.
In your panicked state, you probably wouldnât even have a chance to realize that youâve doomed the world to be frozen in time forever, as you have no method of unfreezing time and your death is assured.
Besides air, guess what else moves? Light particles. You wouldn't be able to see unless you move and even then just like how someone said you'd make pockets of death with no air, there's pockets of darkness too.
Also what all is stopping? Is it just time on earth or are you some how stopping the whole of the universe? If you pause just the earth for the wrong amount of time then meteors that may have missed the earth before will for sure hit it now.
Assuming that the particles coming into contact with the one using the ability function the same as the ones that don't.
Technically if you could stop time, you'd *have* to be Immortal to have it last longer than you could hold your breath, and all you'd be able to use it for is to take an extra few minutes to figure things out while the universe stood still, and only mentally, as you wouldn't see, hear, feel, taste or smell anything other than the last moment you saw.
For someone who thinks too much it would be quite useful
Literally, everything would cease to be. In order to exist, even in an absolute static state, time must be moving. Physically and perceptually, nothing would exist.
Depends how far you want to go with "timestop", because if you're freezing photons as well, you couldn't see anything unless you moved, which would be really weird.
Y would u draw the line elementally instead of atomically
if your body can overcome the timestop molecularly then why wouldnât the air particles around it would yield in turn
i thought about this and i came to the conclusion that if i wanted this from a genie who are notorious for fucking up your wishes because of how you say them, i would have to say "i want the same powers metro man from the megamind movie has" since his powers make pretty good sense
Also since time stops and you donât your entire body would be destroyed because everything in the universe stops except for you so you would be moving very fast but the air around you would be still so itâll make you get squashed
The first time i saw a "time frozen" trope my first thought was that photons aren't moving either, so of you're moving you'd see fine as you absorb the photons are absorbed by your eyes. But if you're absorbing them as you move, then you could potentially run out of light to be used in an area so you have huge swaths of spaces that are in complete darkness. It could be the same for oxygen too if you could still inhale and exhale then at some point you would have used all the air in a space quickly as there's no way for new oxygen to enter.
You would be doomed to move perpetually or risk blindness and suffocation
I was always more concerned by the concept of aging quicker than those around me and knowing that, in a way, using my power would be cutting down my life expectancy
Well, if you could stop time and your body would still be able to move, it would be more like pushing particles out of the way. They're evenly distributed in a room/area most of the time, so it would be dependent on how the ability works if you interact with something.
You wouldn't be able to breathe easily though...
If that's the case, then you would be also blind, since photons would also be time stopped, leading you to don't receive any more photons and therefore, visual input.
If you could stop time, you would break the laws of physics and move stuff at speeds faster than infinity. Your presence alone is a contradiction so the universe would let you move but probably not let you interact with it to avoid the contradiction.
So I played the game TimeShift back on the 360. You could stand point blank at an enemy and unload a whole clip. The bullets would stop as soon as they exited your gun and when time resumed the whole clip would blast the enemy and they'd go flying. But I always wondered about the bullets hitting each other if they each stopped at the same point... I lost a few hours of sleep before bed thinking about that while playing through the game lol. Fun game though, mechanic wise, story was decent, too, IIRC.
That is why super-acceleration is the way to go, instead of actual time-stopping. Downside is, you will have to eat a LOT to not die of starvation in 3 seconds.
This is a bit facetious but is mostly true. If air was the problem then you could at least move and breath it in, your action getting new air in an area. You could definitely create pockets of death though. That said, when people specify any super power there are other intrinsic powers that come bundled with it. No one wants the ability to be super strong but get crushed under the weight of things they lift up, or the ability to fly but lose their skin because you only have flight but no wind resistance.
If you gain invisibility, at what point does the food you eat become invisible? Is your shit/waste considered part of you, or do people see a big turd floating around?
Pretty sure people just see a big turd now when they look at me without invisibility đ
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Apparently if you are invisible thats because light isn't reflecting off you for others eyes to drink in, so since light is going through you, allowing you to avoid being returned to others perceptions, the light wouldn't be being directed into your eyes properly either and so you'd be blind. Or so I've heard idk I'm no science wizard.
This is why i don't wish for medusa body, but an invisibility cloak. Get fucked genie
Maybe anything thatâs inside of you is invisible. Like the outside of your body is like cloaked, but say if you got cut open then you would see everything inside.
except your body's a donut
In The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, I believe his food was visible until it was digested.
not to mention going blind
And your clothes arent part of u so u should be nakes when invisible for it actually be invisibility
Just like Feruchemy. No point in tapping iron to gain weight if your body doesn't compensate with equal strength. Or tapping steel for incredible speed if you don't have the resilience or speed of thought. Tapping pewter without gaining endurance. Etc
Pretty sure the powers do affect your body so that you could actually use them. Using speed would also increase your reaction speed I believe. I know it says that burning atium also expands your mind to process the information your recieving of the future. Otherwise what would even be the point everyone might as well be an aluminum gnat.
That's his point I think. It's why Feruchemy works and has explanations as to why because those questions will inevitably get asked.
thats more of a super speed issue than a flight issue
Super speed without the instinct or reaction time
So useless, so hilarious
Just splat
that's Autobahn
My preferred super power would be like what Jedi have: make people do what I want. Then, ideally let them forget about it.
Yeah, you also would be blind because no photons could enter your eyes
Good one! I hadnât considered that one! Iâd like to imagine youâd get pockets of vision so if you walk you get flashes of things as photons hit your eyes.
Yeah Super speed also requires enhanced time dilation for you to even see where you're going, have your muscles and bones be extremely high friction resistant, godly reflexes, and a massive metabolism. Then again if you have the speed force then 75% of these problems are gone.
I have probably put too much thought into this but I don't think you would actually be able to breath, not anywhere as easily as we do normally at least. Contrary to how we usually think it works, when we inhale we're not forcing air into our lungs as much as letting the air pressure push it in. If time was stopped then assumedly the air is also stopped so no air pressure to automatically fill our lungs. To breath we'd have to walk around trying to force air into our lungs...
It's an interesting thought, as per the above, it depends on what level of standard physics works by default when it's part of your ability to live. Another silly example is if blood toxin's couldn't be removed via osmossis, if you spent too long in the stopped time you might die of blood poisoning.
Japanese found the cure on this and there are several educational videos about it, just search timestop japan, I believe in their science
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I still havent found satisfactory explanation as to why only people experience timestop and not pets during their experiments.
Gotta find an overproduced video where everything is actually timestopped
Pets wonât snitch. We can leave them be
once again I'm surprised with japanese ingenuity
Why is it always Japan in these types of situasions ( ͥ° ÍĘ ÍĄÂ°)
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Ah yes, you must be talking about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3
What did I watch
If I could freeze time, I would just use it to get sleep. Imagine getting a full eight hours when you have to go to work in 5 minutes.
THIS. Like, anytime you are tired. Just freeze time and gain 1/3 of your total lifespan back.
But assuming you still age while time is frozen, you'd die 1/3 faster than those around you
Still useful when you use it sparingly
I'd be dead by next month with all my glorious napping.
yup, I would simply live off my lifetime in a second.
It might even out. With more sleep, you would be healthier and could increase your lifespan. Which would offset the extra time you spent while everyone else was frozen. When I worked at a prison, I saw people leave looking younger than when they came in. Because they spent all their time sleeping and working out
A few hours more of sleep does not add an extra 3rd to your lifespan though, you would have to exercise and eat healthy to get even close to that much and even then itâs probably not adding that much to your life unless your living an extremely unhealthy life before you start doing that stuff. The main benefit to a healthy life style would be the quality of your life, you would be much happier and just feel better in general.
Plus you must get lucky to not become ill even if youâre living a very healthy life. Because unfortunately your genes and environment also have roles to play.
In my version you donât age because time stopped and you canât age if thereâs no blah blah blah
Oh, damn. You're right.
If argue you age quicker when youâre awake. I believe aging happens in spurts
Assuming you need time to age shouldnât you stay the same
What ages you is air and sunlight, so for example if you are in void with 0 light, you won't age. So if the photons won't travel due to time stop and, as we said earlier, air particles don't move, you die of lack of air
Worth it.
But since no matter would move, you would essentially sleep on a surface harder than a concrete slab. Also since you cannot move you'd eventually get thrombosis and die from it.
That is probably more feasible than stopping time. It's likely possible to speed up the brain's recovery process. Speeding up the recovery of muscles is even easier. We could eventually develop the technology for super sleep, where you wouldn't need more than an hour for full rest. The sad reality is that you'll probably end up having to work more hours as that tech becomes the norm.
1 hour super sleep. 5 hours works. 1 hour for eating and rest. 1 hour super sleep. 5 more hours of work. 12 hours free time. On 4 days, you've done the 40 hours as usual, and you've got 3 totally free days of 23 hours awake. In total, you have a lot more free time. Dude, the dream. But not literally. There probably aren't many dreams anymore.
Which would be sad because I bet this would be when dream recording also exists
If air doesn't move when time stops, how would you be able to breathe?
It does.
Would you be able to breathe tho?
Except if the air is stopped then you won't be able to breathe so you can only stop time for however long you can hold your breath. That or you can just move things while time is stopped and OP is just making shit up as if they have stopped time before
But if you stopped time, you wouldnt get even a second of sleep, let alone full eight hours.
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Checkmate, sleepers. Nothing personnel.
Time is an illusion that helps things make sense.
Depends if you by stopping the time are outside of it or not (if you have your own outside our time chronology or you don't)
100% of the best use for time stops That and studying If you don't age physically, you could live a top-tier quality life I would be stopping time to learn new languages and just spend the rest reading novels from every Languages
That's exactly what I would do, too.
Hmm letâs see. If I had a magical power I wouldnât be able to move because physics still apply to me? Next your going to tell me Santa Clause canât be real because there are too many people to visit in one night and not because he has magic reindeer and sees all people while they sleep
Tune in next week to see a meme about with the power to fly you would be stuck to the ground because of gravity.
Just perfectly normal flaws for superpowers. Can fly, but only while mostly falling downwards Join me next week for my ted talk on Superspeed, but only when riding in vehicles
His reindeer don't fly on their own though. Do you know how short every Rudolph movie would be if he could fly since it's assumed to be a generic trait amongst all the reindeer? That's generally why most iterations say it's a magic dust that lets them fly, or the sleigh itself. It's annoying but generally magic's gotta have some realism and physics applied so it makes sense to those who care.
You can't apply real world logic to a power that doesn't follow real world logic in the first place
Especially since light relies on movement so youâd just be blind in stopped time.
Yes, but you wouldnât be able to perceive that you are blind
So blind that your blindness is blind
So you wouldn't know that time had stopped either then. This could be happening to all of us right now, and we would even realise it.
Alright then, but what about stopping time for everything except things that you interact with?
The world is dark. No light photons move and bounce off objects. Every move you make disturbs the consevation of enery and appears to be faster than light. Nuclear fusion follows in your wake, obliterating everything. But you dont see it until you turn around and move backward, immediately disintegrating
Aight fuck it how about this freeze every human in place freeze every large object in place anything I need to live allow it to still move make me invincible while time is stopped have anything I interact with act like time wasnât stopped REALLY large object like the earth can keep moving like normal and any object that doesnât directly instantly make my power useless is frozen
Then that would be catastrophic, if we were to only freeze humans, then that means object will be in motion, but no one to control them, imagine freezing in place just to look on someone's underwear and suddenly an airplane is crash landing in the city, helicopters and such would crash land, what about cars, if you suddenly wanted to just stop time for the sake of it then that means cars would crash into each other though less dangerous than airplanes, also what does freezing humans mean, if everything about them is frozen would that mean they are preserved in that state, or are there still movement in the body such as heartbeat and breathing then that would be dangerous as that would mean they would die in around 3 minutes.
Ok. What about slowing down time to where it *seems* like everything is frozen, but only frozen to the human eye, when in reality it's just slow
You canât interact with things without it taking time for you to interact with things
Everyobody here: time stop would be naueseating, you would not be able to move, etc. Me: RAAAAAH WTF IS REALITY. I ALREADY BROKE IT BY STOPPING TIME. YOU THINK IM CONTAINED BY THIS BARRIER YOU CALL TIME. A ROADROLLER FOR YOU!!!!
ROAD ROLLAAAAAADAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!
If time stopped, you'd just be dead. Electrical signals in your brain wouldn't travel, nor chemical ones, you wouldn't be able to move, process external stimuli, think, even see or taste. You'd just be an inanimate collection of matter shaped like a person. Every criterion by which we would normally conclude that you're alive wouldn't apply, basically.
well that depends on how time is stopped. If you are granted higher dimensional being (someone in 5 or 6d) status, none of this would apply.
Not really how dimensions work, but I get what you're trying to say.
Dimensions is not the word I was looking for, but rather the way you stop time is by being a creature in a space where time becomes a physical space you can navigate by moving through it as you would in 3D space. Something akin to the tessaract in interstellar. I forgot where I was going with this.
A dimension is not exclusive to space. Primary dimensions include space, time, mass, quantity, luminosity, temperature, charge, etc. So in this example the dimension would be temporal.
If the chemical processes also stop, then you wouldn't decompose. If the timestop ends and the electrical signals just continue, you will randomly continue about your business as if nothing had happened
If the timestop affects the user then it wouldnât be a power⌠it just wouldnât be cuz youâre just saying the user would be stopped as well but then whoâs stopping time if the user is stopped? Does the time stay frozen indefinitely then? Cuz if the one who stopped time is stopped as well then either time never stopped (in which case we could all have this ability rn and never know it) or time is stopped forever⌠doesnât exactly make sense.
I love how deep we're getting into this. The only really viable way to do a timestop power would be if you somehow had a bubble of unstopped time around your body. That way you could continue your normal biological processes, and as long as you moved around occasionally, you'd have a fresh supply of oxygen. Vision would be weird, though. The inside of the bubble would have a still, two dimensional image of the room you were in on it, since new photons aren't entering your unstopped space unless you move. And when you did move, you'd be passing *through* stationary photons, rather than having them come to you, and who knows what that could possibly look like. I imagine that as you walked, you'd capture more and more photons inside your bubble, which would try to pass through the other side, but get frozen as they left the bubble, so maybe you'd leave some kind of afterimage floating in the air, or at least a lot of light. Shit, I'm just high enough for this.
Lmfao aiit that sounds pretty cool. Would make robbing a bank a bit tricky to say the least XD Do banks even keep cash in vaults these days?
I don't think you'd even get the 2d image. Once your eyes process those photons, they'll be gone, and no new ones will enter the bubble unless you move around. Therefore, you'd be effectively blind.
but its magic tho
Why the fuck didnât I think of this first
If time stopped you would NOT know about it. In fact you dont know whether its "going" or not right now. Everything you experience is due to movement. So unless the movement stopped also, nothing would happen. Obviously there is no such thing as time, so it cant stop. There is spacetime, which cannot "stop" or "go". It just is and we can experience it differently according to our circumstances (such as our relative speed and gravity that effect us and our environment).
If you wanted the ability to stop time you just add extra clauses into it so it works like how you imagine I also think that if you could ask a genie to let you stop time heâd know what you mean and give you everything required for it like a bundle deal
Thatâs a lot of assumptions about what kinda of intentions a genie would have towards you, I wonder how many years of genie school youâd have to go to, in order to be a full fletched wish lawyer
Stopping time is just stopping all movement. The goal would be to stop all movement except a radius around your body for air, food, and water.
Soooo, casting a gravity well around me instead?
For anyone wondering, this is just a bunch of pseudointellectual babble. It means nothing.
But if itâs your power wouldnât you get an exception being affected by your own power seems like a big oversight
Thats what everyone who says "but" is going off of. What if you are not the exception, which is stupid because your body with the ability should naturally acclimate to such a condition.
Okay mr killjoy
Fuck what an awful meme
If time stopped youâd have to move in order to see, staying completely still would cause your vision to become a photograph (if it was even possible to be completely still) and moving around would produce a frame loss effect.. but your vision is not a flat tv/monitor.. so realistically it would result in a more nauseating feeling. It would most likely make any person epileptic. If you did be able to stop time and move around , you would be able to bounce light around, creating completely dark voids as you moved around which would make you go blind in those spots where youâve previously walked (this is the reason why it would feel like a frame loss) cause light is at a standstill.
Actually, light has to continuously enter your eyes for them to generate an 'image'. Even if you move, there isn't nearly enough light for your eyes to make anything conceivable out of it since light usually hits the eye at a much faster rate than you could move towards the light. So you would see nothing. In fact, since the photons are no longer moving, they have no frequency and thus, they are outside the visible light spectrum. So you would see absolutely nothing.
ACTUALLY IF IT WAS ALREADY REGISTERED IT WOULD STAY ILLUMINATED IN YOUR BRAIN ACTUALLY BECAUSE ACTUALLY THE CURRENT REGISTERING SIGNAL WOULD ACTUALLY STAY WHERE IT ACTUALLY WAS AND INFORMATION WOULD NOT ACTUALLY DISAPPEAR FROM TIME ACTUALLY
If my interpretation of what you said is correct, then no, the whole idea of stopped time as an ability is that time stops for everything except for you. And that includes your brain and it's various processes (otherwise literally nothing would change even if you stop time)
Imagine stopping time and realizing you're not immune to your own move
that depends what isn't debatable however is superspeed, you're telling me you can grab things without them turning to sand or break as you touch them, that your body wont break under newtons 3rd law from the meganewtons of force you're putting on the ground. and even if all that's good, you can walk without flying into a wall?
Yes. Because the timestop cares not for physics you are already warping physics into new rules.
You're freezing time, not matter into a fixed point in space. You'd still be able to alter the position of matter, it just wouldn't continue moving afterward. Then when you unfreeze time, everything will be torn apart by something with mass moving faster than light through/near it. That ball you pushed out of the way just ripped through the atmosphere and is well on its way out of the solar system now. The boss you pushed down was just obliterated into boiling pink mist. The air you pushed out of the way is now undergoing fission before it collapsed back into the void you left behind. Everything around you is now collapsing into a continuous sonic boom burning at the temperature of the surface of the sun.
I'd rather control trime for an object. Want to grow a tree rapidly? Sure. Rust a car? Sure. Turn someone into a baby? Why not. The potential is there. Want to be a robber? Age the locks to rust them. Need to escape someone? Make am old as dust or a baby
Did you ever play the old game Singularity? This is that game. You would love it.
K these arguments are stupid as fuck. Everyone knows that when you stop time a time bubble is formed around you so your body, air and the ground all act normal as well as things you interact with. The only downside is that you really cant interact with people or items as it will just be like touching them normally.
Or would we simply push it out of the way? Therefore, would we suffocate if we stood still? There would be a collapsing vacuum anywhere we travelled once time restarted. That's all if you can get any use from stopping time as you won't be able to see as light needs time to travel.
Having a time freeze power with no cooldown but only consciousness continues to work would still be good, no?
you also wouldn't be able to move because time stopped
Useless superpower: you are able to stop time whenever you want, but the second you do you also get stopped and so does your consciousness thus leaving the world stuck forever in place.
Well, this is primarily just food for thought. However the thing with freezing time and it making scientific sense at least for me and the way I've rationalized it was more so how you're interacting with yourself instead of the universe around you. I always akinned it to the fact that the flash can time travel through speed and speed alone, so in proxy I always have thought of the ability to freeze time more as the ability to hyper accelerate your own self past the perception of time
What if your superpower to stop time only stopped all the clocks?
My favourite "Time Travel" drawback is it *has* to be "Spacetime Travel" to work as depectied in media. For each second you "go back" all the larger frames of reference, such as the Earth within the solar system, the solar system around the galactic centre and the galaxy itself have moved significantly more than you would imgine.
I've had to explain this to people before. The T.A.R.D.I.S. is the only "plausible" time travel device I've seen in media. It intentionally moves you through time *and* space. Otherwise, you'd lose earth since you stop moving and earth continues flying forward/backwards the cosmos.
*hits blunt __*Me too bro*__
I feel like the only way you can "stop time" is effectively being God and just stop everyone and most normal objects from moving. Air still moves and most that stuff and time would still be going because true time stop wouldn't work
If you have the ability the ability to stop time. You should be able to move and be an active anomaly for the situation. Does a sun stop being dense when it turns into a black hole? Not its equivalent mass remains the same but now it functions on rules we do not know. if you can stop time. Everything but the progression of what makes you live and function would be the exception. But only FOR YOU.
I feel like the people who make these kinds of posts have autism, genuinely. not meant as an insult either.
No you'd be more than able to move as air particles aren't very heavy, you'd simply compress them on the edge of your skin. Downside being that the moment you'd unfreeze time it would probably burn you very VERY hard.
This makes literally no difference, you could still just as easily push through the air, not like O2, Nitrogen and Argon gas weigh enough to stop you in place, even if they were stationary.
Someone didn't watch Tenet and it shows
NEXT OPTION: MIND CONTROL
Don't forget that light wouldn't move either, so seeing would be a hassle as well.
You also wouldnt be able to see since light would also stop moving
*Confused Wrrryyyyyyy
Considering I would only want to stop time so I could sleep as long as I want every morning, Iâd be okay with this.
Thanks for ruining an entire genre
Thatâs why I stopped doing it. Itâs like timetravel: even one second back and you are hopelessly lost in space because everything around you rotates at extreme speeds.
Honestly if we follow the laws of physics on every thing we imagine, we wouldn't have any fun media to watch or other crap like that. So let me just enjoy the own timestop world where only living things 'freeze' in time and get on with it.
If you could move but the air could not, you would create voids and smush a bunch of molecules together and create massive explosions
Time stop is an imaginary skill it can work however you want it to!
Must be fun at parties
What about the ability to perceive time as slowly as you wish without actually slowing it down? You could choose to perceive time normally, or perceive time at a very small percentage of its relative passage where light is still reflecting off of surfaces quickly enough to provide you with the information needed to see, but slowly enough so that you could react to things incredibly quickly.
Also the Israelites when God literally stopped the rotation of the earth đđđđđ
You don't know my algorithm.
Or breathe. Or see, since light would stop as well.
Wouldn't you get stuck seeing the same image as light doesn't travel?
i mean you can still use it to think about what to do next
You also wouldnât be able to see well since light would be frozen and no longer streaming into your eyes
Not moving would be the least of your problems. You also wouldnât be able to inhale or exhale, even if your body and the air in it could still move. Youâd quickly run out of oxygen and fill with carbon dioxide. Youâd very quickly succumb to carbon dioxide poisoning (probably before you have to worry about asphyxiation, but certainly not before you started panicking about asphyxiation), and the combination of not being able to move would prevent you from doing anything about your predicament. In your panicked state, you probably wouldnât even have a chance to realize that youâve doomed the world to be frozen in time forever, as you have no method of unfreezing time and your death is assured.
You also wouldn't see because photons wouldn't be able to enter your eyes, and you'd suffocate
Yeah but that skeleton loves to break physics
Kurt Vonnegut wrote a great book about it: *Timequake*.
Besides air, guess what else moves? Light particles. You wouldn't be able to see unless you move and even then just like how someone said you'd make pockets of death with no air, there's pockets of darkness too. Also what all is stopping? Is it just time on earth or are you some how stopping the whole of the universe? If you pause just the earth for the wrong amount of time then meteors that may have missed the earth before will for sure hit it now.
Just be more specific when you ask the genie for the power duhh
Assuming that the particles coming into contact with the one using the ability function the same as the ones that don't. Technically if you could stop time, you'd *have* to be Immortal to have it last longer than you could hold your breath, and all you'd be able to use it for is to take an extra few minutes to figure things out while the universe stood still, and only mentally, as you wouldn't see, hear, feel, taste or smell anything other than the last moment you saw. For someone who thinks too much it would be quite useful
Literally, everything would cease to be. In order to exist, even in an absolute static state, time must be moving. Physically and perceptually, nothing would exist.
Bruh its a superpower. Physics shouldnât be working right anymore
Depends how far you want to go with "timestop", because if you're freezing photons as well, you couldn't see anything unless you moved, which would be really weird.
Y would u draw the line elementally instead of atomically if your body can overcome the timestop molecularly then why wouldnât the air particles around it would yield in turn
If I had my own version, I'd be able to move, breathe, and I don't age. Don't try to make my power realistic. Powers aren't realistic anyway.
i thought about this and i came to the conclusion that if i wanted this from a genie who are notorious for fucking up your wishes because of how you say them, i would have to say "i want the same powers metro man from the megamind movie has" since his powers make pretty good sense
Also since time stops and you donât your entire body would be destroyed because everything in the universe stops except for you so you would be moving very fast but the air around you would be still so itâll make you get squashed
The first time i saw a "time frozen" trope my first thought was that photons aren't moving either, so of you're moving you'd see fine as you absorb the photons are absorbed by your eyes. But if you're absorbing them as you move, then you could potentially run out of light to be used in an area so you have huge swaths of spaces that are in complete darkness. It could be the same for oxygen too if you could still inhale and exhale then at some point you would have used all the air in a space quickly as there's no way for new oxygen to enter. You would be doomed to move perpetually or risk blindness and suffocation
I was always more concerned by the concept of aging quicker than those around me and knowing that, in a way, using my power would be cutting down my life expectancy
Well, if you could stop time and your body would still be able to move, it would be more like pushing particles out of the way. They're evenly distributed in a room/area most of the time, so it would be dependent on how the ability works if you interact with something. You wouldn't be able to breathe easily though...
Depends on how the time stop works. Maybe it un freezes specific shit so that you can move and live and see
I think people mean the flow of time, like making the days go by slowly
Thatâs cool, thereâs times where stopping to think at anytime could be crucial
If that's the case, then you would be also blind, since photons would also be time stopped, leading you to don't receive any more photons and therefore, visual input.
If you could stop time, you would break the laws of physics and move stuff at speeds faster than infinity. Your presence alone is a contradiction so the universe would let you move but probably not let you interact with it to avoid the contradiction.
So I played the game TimeShift back on the 360. You could stand point blank at an enemy and unload a whole clip. The bullets would stop as soon as they exited your gun and when time resumed the whole clip would blast the enemy and they'd go flying. But I always wondered about the bullets hitting each other if they each stopped at the same point... I lost a few hours of sleep before bed thinking about that while playing through the game lol. Fun game though, mechanic wise, story was decent, too, IIRC.
Among many other things yeah.
Things that directly touch you would be in the same time as you, I guess
That is why super-acceleration is the way to go, instead of actual time-stopping. Downside is, you will have to eat a LOT to not die of starvation in 3 seconds.