Stopping Time

[PyroChamber]

If you had the ability to stop time but could only do it once a day, is there a particular time of the day where you would use this power the most?

 

[SuBe]

Lunch hour. So I can nap.

 

[Captain Planet!]

Hammer Time.

 

[JayCaz]

The time when the guy from the Securicor Van is walking past me.

 

[a cupcake mess]

I don't know if I would yet.

There's been 2 times when time has felt like it stopped and I didn't like it one bit.

 

[Obi-Ron]

When she's in the shower.

 

[huskerwebhead]

I'd hook it up to my snooze button...so when that damn alarm goes off I can stop time and get as much sleep as I want.

 

[[A]]

If you had the ability to stop time but could only do it once a day, is there a particular time of the day where you would use this power the most?

Whenever I see the bank van. Dammit I need money..

 

[Kable24]

I'd hook it up to my snooze button...so when that damn alarm goes off I can stop time and get as much sleep as I want.

Amen to that one!!!!!

 

[bullets]

i would stop time at night , it would be nice to stay up later and still get enough sleep.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

I would stop time every time I had a math test & just copy the answers off a smart kid...or steal the answer key off the teacher's desk.

 

[Tyrinus]

Well how long can you stop time for? For however long you want so long as it doesn't exceed 24 hours?

I think I'd let the days events determine when.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

I'd probably try to see a woman naked without her permission as she probably wouldn't give it.

 

[The Senator]

If you could stop time, then how will time restart itself, considering we should theoretically have no concept of time while we are in a timeless continuum?

 

[Silverstein]

If you had the ability to stop time but could only do it once a day, is there a particular time of the day where you would use this power the most?

How long is time stopped for?
Do we control when it begins again?
Are we stopped as well or can we leave the area and do things?
If time were stopped and we could freely move, wouldn't everything around us become much harder as ALL things have stopped including air? So how could we breathe? It wouldnt be in gas form, it would be more like glass...

 

[Manic]

If time were stopped and we could freely move, wouldn't everything around us become much harder as ALL things have stopped including air? So how could we breathe? It wouldnt be in gas form, it would be more like glass...

Most science fiction tends to use the idea that you have limited manipulation of everything you come into contact with, including all gases. It would explain breathing, as well as how TV & movies show people grabbing stuff frozen in mid-air.

Another convention used is the idea that time-stoppers aren't stopping time itself from progressing, but simply selectively stopping the molecules of nearby (or even far surrounding) objects. This way, their powers instinctively allow them to freeze everything but the air they breathe.

 

[04nbod]

I'd hook it up to my snooze button...so when that damn alarm goes off I can stop time and get as much sleep as I want.

Thats a great plan

 

[November Rain]

sunset

 

[Colossal Spoons]

I'd probably try to see a woman naked without her permission as she probably wouldn't give it.

Alrighty

 

[Master Chief]

I wouldn't abuse that s**t, I'd save it for a time I'd actually need it.
Like, exams or tests in school and whatnot.
Then I'm sure in an ironic twist it'd be the one time I can't.

 

[Majic Walrus]

The time when the local bank vault is open.

 

[Ronny Shade]

Depends. Do I age during these time stops?

 

[Ace of Knaves]

I would rob all the rich snobby people in the country and give the money to the poor, but obviously keep some for myself!

 

[Silverstein]

Most science fiction tends to use the idea that you have limited manipulation of everything you come into contact with, including all gases. It would explain breathing, as well as how TV & movies show people grabbing stuff frozen in mid-air.

Another convention used is the idea that time-stoppers aren't stopping time itself from progressing, but simply selectively stopping the molecules of nearby (or even far surrounding) objects. This way, their powers instinctively allow them to freeze everything but the air they breathe.

I realize this, and I'm not refuting that. But most science fiction also allows characters to change the past or future. The timeline has already occured, future, past and present are relative, everything already has happened.


The best use of time is "The Watchmen". Therefore we are not changing the outcome of our timeline regardless of what we become aware of or do, because if we are aware it is only because history dictates that we become aware at that point. Nothing happens "regardless" of time.

That said, most science fiction writers are working with a pliable, workable frame. A fiction. They're not working within the realm of a realistic and probable representation of actual time control. To further this confusion, think about the common elements or themes associated with time travel or time control...

A.) In the future something bad happens and characters go back in time to stop it from occuring.
B.)Someone from the present/future goes into the past and changes things to alter the future.

Neither situation could happen because the story would start originally with the future already changed. How could a separate past lead up to a future that leads to an alternate past?

X-is our current status
Y-is the future
z-is the past

z=X, x=y, y=y-z? y-z=2x Yet somehow 2x=x? No.

 

[Majic Walrus]

Does that have anything to do with the question?

We're not talking about traveling through time, merely stopping the flow of time.