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      504 months ago

      Didn’t 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.

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        284 months ago

        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.

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          114 months ago

          Good thing is that since time has stopped, you won’t get your eyes burnt since light stopped travelling as well.

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            134 months ago

            As an aside, if light stopped too, wouldn’t 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?

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              Photons would still exist, they’d just be frozen in a cloud. You could “see” things by moving towards photon sources, but you’d leave a black fog behind you, and would never be able to see the samething twice.

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              The scenario doesn’t really make sense as the electro-chemical activity in your brain would be stopped as well, so you couldn’t be conscious.

              But if we suspend disbelief, you could say that you’re stuck with the image that got to your retina when time stopped. Which means that you couldn’t see the protagonist moving!

              Also, realistically, he couldn’t even move as he’d be against a barrier of unmovable air.

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                54 months ago

                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 would’ve 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. Let’s 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.

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                    34 months ago

                    hence the Alcubierre bubble! everything you directly interact with is sped up to your time speed so that you’re only ever interacting with normal-paced matter, and then as you leave the area everything gradually slows back down to near-stop

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                  14 months ago

                  but where do we keep the multiple stars worth of energy necessary for the Alcubierre drive? Something like −1064 kg converted to energy, I mean, I got pockets in my pants but I don’t think they’ll hold that

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                    34 months ago

                    Since FTL breaks casualuty, it can just be along any spacelike curve!

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        And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.

        That’s basically sleep paralysis.

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          So either six months of sleep paralysis or you experience six months of time in the instant that time returns, possibly mentally handicapping people from the sensation. Yeah, OP better go into hiding, anyone who survives will hunt them down - regardless of what they do.

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          124 months ago

          I would have at least visited museums and the likes in cities I can’t afford to visit, as well as making food with all the tasty high quality ingredients I can’t afford.

          Maybe drive around on some expensive motorbike just to see how it feels. If my financial situation at the time was especially dire, maybe take a “loan” from a bank somewhere before unfreezing time.

          You’d have to be a saint to have that power and not do anything illegal. But one thing I would never do is fuck over regular people, only corporations and big businesses. After time unfreezes, those can recover from whatever I did and I doubt I’d but a significant dent in their profit margins, but regular people would have to live with the consequences of what I did, so that’s a no go.

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            Eh, I honestly probably wouldn’t do much. If we’re going with the typical “time stop” rules where people just lock up and the days never change (trying to not think too hard about the physics), I would probably just work on a lot of hobbies that I don’t have time for normally.

            That’s really boring, so I guess that says a lot about me… Now I’m sad.

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          54 months ago

          Depends, what would happen if I stopped time in a moving car? Like if I were to stop time when that one car was swerving in and out of traffic, almost hit someone, then flicked them off?

          If I stopped time then would I still be carried by the momentum and splat against the inside of my car leaving everyone frozen forever or undo time stop and some freak accident is talked about on the news?

          Or do I get to stop time while they’re flipping the bird, pull their car off to the side of the road, take off their tires, fill their gas tank with sugar, then swipe their offending finger in their butt crack and leave it pressed against their upper lip?

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            34 months ago

            If momentum was something to worry about, I feel like you’d have to worry about the movement of celestial bodies/etc too.

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      224 months ago

      Assume some people were around you when you froze time. They saw you did something and then were the only one who could move.

      Then they went through the absolute nightmare of being paralyzed and conscious for six months. And they know you’ve caused it.

      I highly doubt the whole world concented to this.

      Whatever else you did in frozen time barely changes a thing.

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        124 months ago

        What if you spent your frozen time, determining the problems of everyone in the world, and solving them? So, when everybody got unfrozen, it was a utopia.

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          People may say “you can’t make an omelette without breaking a few eggs”, but would the eggs agree ? With hindsight you might become seen as a hero, but I doubt that would change the immediate hatred people would feel upon release from half a year of bondage within oneself.

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            44 months ago

            Exactly. If someone mowed my lawn for me, that’s cool. If they tied me to a chair so tight I couldn’t move until they were done, not so cool.

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          44 months ago

          One person’s utopia is another’s dystopia. There will always be people genuinely upset about what you did or what “utopia” you want to archive.

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      Dude you can get in trouble for doing a lot of things that aren’t a criminal sex act. There’s so much more out there! Doing H until you nod out in public, stealing products, playing guitar after 10pm, orchestrating dog fights, gambling on when elderly people will die, driving a type I school bus with a physical on file that’s two years and ten days old, the possibility are endless.

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      64 months ago

      I would still steel shit from larger chain shops to eat an stuff so that wouldnt work out. Also i would test my powers first.