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merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoYou can’t actually change time, just your perception of time. Your muscles don’t move any faster. If someone is throwing a punch at you and you slow down time, you can appreciate the fist moving at your face for an hour of your slowed-down time, but you still can’t dodge the punch. If you speed up time, you still need to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions. So, instead of getting hungry every few hours, you get hungry in what feels like seconds. And, since you don’t have super-speed, you need to slow time back down again so you can eat.
It might still be a power worth having, but it’s not as awesome as it might seem at first.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It would be great for raw reaction time, granted you’d still have to wait for your body to catch up.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Would your reaction time change? Maybe the neurons in your brain would be going at super speed, but maybe your peripheral nerves would still be slow. So, the time between hearing something and the signal getting to your brain would still take ages. Or, the light would hit your eyes, but it would be a long time before that was processed into a signal your ultra-fast brain could use.
TheOakTree@lemm.ee 3 days ago
If you can’t even think while freezing time, then your “side-effect” is just complete nullification. Not much of a side-effect.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
It sounds like you’re saying “reaction” is something that happens in the head, while I’m saying “reaction” is something that happens in the body.