đšEarly to RISA đ§Anon freezes time
lseifthats fine with me, since im not sick in the head, and i respect peopleâs consent
Didnât even think about this. I thought of how crushingly boring and annoying it must have been to have been unable to move at all. For 6 months.
And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.
Imagine if your one of the thousands of people who would likely happen to have the sun in their eyes at the instant of freezing.
Good thing is that since time has stopped, you wonât get your eyes burnt since light stopped travelling as well.
Does this mean everything would be dark?
The scenario doesnât really make sense as the electro-chemical activity in your brain woul be stopped as well, so tou couldnât be conscious.
But if we suspend disbelief, you could say that youâre stuck with the image that got to your retina when time stopped. Which means that you couldnât see the protagonist moving!
Also, realistically, he couldnât even move as heâd be against a barrier of unmovable air.
Match!!I think a more reasonable interpretation is for time o have been slowed to an extreme extent: a factor of 10^6 would mean the 6 months of protagonist time wouldâve been experienced as 15 seconds of bystander time, and light would be slowed down to about 1000 km/h, still substantially faster than a human can move unaided to avoid Cherenkov radiation.
To avoid friction fires, we have an Alcubierre (warp) bubble of fast space out around the protag. Letâs say about 6 inches for reasons, and with a smooth gradient between protag time and slowed time. This is also necessary to prevent shear forces from tearing up everything the protag touches.
This should handle most situations well: the protagonist can manipulate and interact with typical objects with their hands and other body parts without instantly exploding them or shearing them in half. However, humans that the protag directly interacts with will end up experiencing much more clock-time during the interaction, potentially even within the human reaction time of 250ms given a dedicated amount of attention.
I like it.
mojofrododojobut where do we keep the multiple stars worth of energy necessary for the Alcubierre drive? Something like â10^64^ kg converted to energy, I mean, I got pockets in my pants but I donât think theyâll hold that
Since FTL breaks casualuty, it can just be along any spacelike curve!
bizarrolandOkay but assuming the other laws of the universe remain in play, if light has been slowed down 186 times, then you won't be walking 3 miles an hour you will be walking 3,000 miles an hour, and anything you do to people will be unbelievably violent.
Like if you walk into the shower room where girls are showering and play with their breasts, after time unfreezes they're probably all going to die very quickly or at the very least suffer horrendous damage.
If you slap the kid that picked on you in 6th grade, his head may fly off or his spine may snap at his neck but one way or the other he's most likely going to die.
And even after you revert time to its normal flow, everywhere you have gone is going to suffer multiple shock waves as the air your body has displaced and the vacuums you have left behind in your trail collapse back together.
Doors that you've opened will fly off hinges. Windows you have closed will shatter.
But thank God you chose only 1/1000th speed. If you had chosen 1/100,000th, you might have destroyed the entire planet.
hence the Alcubierre bubble! everything you directly interact with is sped up to your time speed so that youâre only ever interacting with normal-paced matter, and then as you leave the area everything gradually slows back down to near-stop
dohpaz42As an aside, if light stopped too, wouldnât that mean that the world would be plunged into darkness?
Photons of light reflect off of objects, and into our eyes before being converted into electrical signals by the brain and translated into visuals that we see. But to do this, photons and electrical signals need to be able to move through time and space. So if time is stopped, and light is stopped with it, none of that other stuff happens, and we all would effectively be blind. No?
Yes, see my other answer.
tetris11Photons would still exist, theyâd just be frozen in a cloud. You could âseeâ things by moving towards photon sources, but youâd leave a black fog behind you, and would never be able to see the samething twice.
if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it.
Does that mean that when photons stop moving, nobody can see them?