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I wish I could freeze and unfreeze time at will and explore this time-frozen world with my bestie (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by late_night@sopuli.xyz to c/monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz

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[–] rodbiren@midwest.social 27 points 5 months ago (4 children)

You can freeze time and move unhindered by the effects of the freeze, but physics still behaves normally meaning your movements cause incredible friction in the air and a sonic boom across any path you take.

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually, there wouldn't be a sonic boom. Because time is frozen, even the smallest movement OP takes would accelerate them beyond the speed of light (OP has to move infinitely fast to overcome the infinitely slow passing of time). The result is that OP risks ending the world if they freeze time.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/

[–] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ye, I've read that page. That's one of my favorite xkcd "what-ifs".

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 3 points 5 months ago

Recently he also started making some video narrations

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can't even breathe properly, because the air you exhale compresses in front of you. to breathe fresh air, you have to walk while breathing in. everything seems dark, because the light is frozen too. you begin to feel incredibly hot, because your body barely loses heat to the surroundings any more.

[–] cynar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interestingly, light can't be frozen, it's speed is constant for all observers. Instead it gets redshifted. The end result is effectively the same, since it ends up out of the visible spectrum.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago

light can't be frozen

Sir, this is !monkeyspaw@sopuli.xyz

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In addition, the Earth's sudden stop means that OP's relative velocity is around 220 km/s because of the solar system's orbit around the galactic center. If OP is on the prograde side, they are launched through the air and evaporate before they have a chance to die in the cold of space. If OP is on the retrograde side, they immediately splatter against the planet with a kinetic energy of about 1.5 terajoules (assuming a body mass of 60 kg).

[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

if you jump, you'll be stuck in the air until time unfreezes