You won't be able to see anything if you stopped time
8 years ago by fasuara · 2386 Likes · 24 comments · Popular
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boredatwork
· 8 years ago
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This brings to mind the implausibility of time travel too. Regardless of if we could do it. Think about this - we're rotating on earth at ~1,000mph, traveling around the sun at ~65,000mph and moving through the universe at (very rough estimate) ~50,000mph. If we jumped off our timeline for even a second, who's to say where we'd wind up when we returned? [It's a difficult concept to explain quickly, but it has to do with our relative position in the universe at any particular moment in time and how it's always changing]
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youwillhateme
· 8 years ago
Bored at work indeed I see.
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mgoveia
· 8 years ago
I've often had the same thought. Then again, there are people calculating where the asteriod Apophis will land decades from now...
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guest
· 8 years ago
Everything is possible!
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guest
· 8 years ago
Bernards watch is a lie..
yecharon
· 8 years ago
Bernard's watch was cool. Who needs science?
deleted
· 8 years ago
Well, since all I'd do if I stopped time was sleep, this would work out okay.
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mgoveia
· 8 years ago
Just don't move, or even breathe, because the friction with the atmosphere would vaporize you.
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ajhedges
· 8 years ago
and if you could see things the information would never travel from your eyes to your brain
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phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
That depends on whether or not you stop. If you kept moving, your eyes would just absorb the light particles hanging in the air and you would be able to see. However, if you did just stand still, you wouldn't see anything.
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ajhedges
· 8 years ago
But nothing can move so therefore you cannot move
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phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
But in most situations where you have stopped time, it is shown that you can move. What fun would it be to stop time if you couldn't move? And if you couldn't move, ow would you make time go again? This is all based on the assumption that in this scenario, everything else has stopped, but YOU can still move.
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ajhedges
· 8 years ago
If the light cannot move because motion is impossible then you cannot move either
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phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
Again, this is all based off of the assumption that you can still move. Like that Twilight Zone episode where he has the watch that stops time. Really, what fun would it be to stop time if you couldn't enjoy it?
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paxxyagent
· 8 years ago
If nobody moved, we would never really know time stopped anyways
phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
Exactly. Would that be any fun? This is why I'm basing my hypothesis on you moving and everything else being frozen in time. Apparently ajhedges doesn't seem to comprehend that, but hopefully he'll get it eventually.
ajhedges
· 8 years ago
I'm just saying that if even light cannot move then a person couldn't either
phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
Okay, honeybun, but we're working in the realm of science fiction. Technically we can do whatever the heck we want, so yeah. Also, the only plausible way someone could "stop time" is to move faster than the speed of light, and on top of that move fast enough that even light appears to stand still. You'd still be moving though, so there's your answer right there.
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phoenixsenshi
· 8 years ago
Also, what kind of boring-ass stories are you reading where the stopper of time is also stopped? Because damn, you need a new booklist.
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guest
· 8 years ago
What if you slowed time to a near stop, but kept it moving imperceptibly slowly? Light is pretty fast, right?
youwillhateme
· 8 years ago
Ever heard of the phrase, "faster than the speed of light"?
deleted
· 8 years ago
There was a classic Star Trek episode similar to this where an alien race moved so fast that to them the crew of the Enterprise looked like they weren't moving. And one of the women had a crush on Kirk and kept kissing him and he couldn't figure out what it was.
guest
· 8 years ago
interstellar m(-,-)m
paxxyagent
· 8 years ago
Light is traveling so fast , however, that it is not affected by time in any way
