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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CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 months agoImagine if your one of the thousands of people who would likely happen to have the sun in their eyes at the instant of freezing.
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 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?
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yes, see my other answer.
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
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.
jaybone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does this mean everything would be dark?
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The scenario doesn’t really make sense as the electro-chemical activity in your brain woul be stopped as well, so tou 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.
match@pawb.social 2 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.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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?
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Or getting frozen mid-orgasm.
nomous@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Depending on the exact moment you might assume you died and the ecstasy you were feeling was an afterlife.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Getting post orgasmic torture from a dominatrix tho…