I first thought about this when somebody said: "What would you do if you could stop time."
Right, so, everybody wants to be able to control time, but, thinking about it, what would you be controlling?
Time is only.. well, time. A measurement.
It doesn't determine what we do as people, so to stop time, you wouldn't be stopping people.
Clocks only show us how much time has passed, if you stop time, it'll keep ticking, but what would it be ticking away?
Time doesn't control how things work, of course we say "Well.. After time, things get weaker and break". You could over-use something quickly and it could break.

I was thinking while showering, what the **** is time? Why is it there? How does this word effect us so much?
If you could control time, say to fast foreward it, people wouldn't start doing what they would as we just flow.
It only effects what we are, not what we do.

So, to stop time, you wouldn't stop people in their tracks you'd just stop them from aging, right?
Discuss.

Stop time and everything disappears.

Why?
Because the speed of light would be equal to zero. Therefore the
E=mc^2 equation would return the value of zero no matter (ba dum tish) what.

As you need energy for matter and matter for energy, then as they are related you can't have one with out the other.

Time isn't just a measurement, it is a dimension. It allows us to measure things, and allows us to view motion, but it isn't just a measurement.

it wouldn't disappear you stupid ****, you just won't be able to see if you are the only one that isn't frozen.

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Stop time and everything disappears.

Why?
Because the speed of light would be equal to zero. Therefore the
E=mc^2 equation would return the value of zero no matter (ba dum tish) what.

As you need energy for matter and matter for energy, then as they are related you can't have one with out the other.

Time isn't just a measurement, it is a dimension. It allows us to measure things, and allows us to view motion, but it isn't just a measurement.

Yeah, but, it doesn't control as to what we do, so, would it freeze everything?
Would we just stop moving?
Would everything just become nothing?
I thought about that and all, but, I'd love to see how time is real.

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it wouldn't disappear you stupid ****, you just won't be able to see if you are the only one that isn't frozen.

He means disappear from sight, I think.


Anyway, time must always continue. You can't keep moving if time stops. You would be moving a distance in a 0 amount of seconds. That means you are moving x amount of meters in 0 seconds. You have a velocity of x/0 m/s. You are moving at an undifined speed which is paradoxical.

YOU CAN'T STOP TIME.

Even if you did, everything including light would stop.

When people talk about stopping time, I don't think it's necessary to really go deep into what we're stopping, we're more so just discussing the possibilities of stopping what we perceive time to be. It doesn't necessarily has to be time that's stopping.

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so "realistically", it's not about STOPPING time, but freezing it.

The biggest issue when stopping time is that you would be blind (Light takes time to travel, so it would be stopped as well) and you would either freeze (Assuming your atoms are still moving) from your atoms being slowed by the absolute-zero movement of atoms around them, or (Assuming your atoms are kept moving at a constant rate by your time-stopping machine) you would burn everything instantly because your atoms would impact and excite other atoms instantly upon contact, and keep increasing their heat level while your body's atoms are staying at a constont speed.

There is a whole field of science that deals with the relationship between Time and Space and their implications for the interactions of energy and matter. It's "Cosmology". For an easy introduction to the field, you should read Stephen Hawking's classic "A Brief History of Time", preferably the latest edition "A BriefER History of Time".

If any mortal travelled the milky cosmos and found out how to stop time he would explode his tiny little head trying to figure out a way to start it again.

I herd that you can almost stop time by dumping a pile of advil in your coffee and drinking it, you'll start to move so fast, it seems as tho time has stopped.
Just I herd this and......

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I herd that you can almost stop time by dumping a pile of advil in your coffee and drinking it, you'll start to move so fast, it seems as tho time has stopped.
Just I herd this and......

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And yo if time stops even tho you cant see things could you still feel them by touching them?

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And yo if time stops even tho you cant see things could you still feel them by touching them?

theyd burn up, remember?

Time, Doctor Freeman? Is it really that... time... again? It seems as if you've only just arrived. You've done a great deal in a small time...span. You've done so well, in fact, that I've received some interesting offers for your services. Ordinarily I wouldn't contemplate them but, these are extraordinary times, hm? Rather than offer you the illusion of free choice, I will take the liberty of choosing for you if and when your time comes around again. I do apologize for what must seem to you an arbitrary imposition, Doctor Freeman. I trust it will all make sense to you in the course of...well...I'm really not at liberty to say. In the meantime, this is where I get off.


Half-Life 2 makes interesting use of delayed existance through a flawed teleport as a method of time travel. In one part of the game, Gordon Freeman and Alex Vance go through a damaged teleporter and arrive at their destination a whole week later instead of instantly, greeting a world of chaos.


Just as well, in between Half-Life and Half-Life 2, it isn't clear where Gordon Freeman has been. However, references to his appearance (Eli Vance says he hasn't aged "one iota") suggest that another character, The G-Man, has kept him separate from the world for the twenty or so years between HL and HL2.

Yeah, I just had a HL fanboy moment. Sue me.

Everyone keeps ranting on about where he went for all that time, but G-Man put him in stasis, which is like freezing you in time i guess.

But the point is, he hasn't been running around doing other shit.

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Everyone keeps ranting on about where he went for all that time, but G-Man put him in stasis, which is like freezing you in time i guess.

But the point is, he hasn't been running around doing other shit.

Yeah, that's what I think. He is just frozen in time between games.

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I first thought about this when somebody said: "What would you do if you could stop time."
Right, so, everybody wants to be able to control time, but, thinking about it, what would you be controlling?TIME??
Time is only.. well, time. A measurement.YES but its also a dimensionIt doesn't determine what we do as people, so to stop time, you wouldn't be stopping people. Time stop means freeze only with an alsome name and not envolving temprature
Clocks only show us how much time has passed, if you stop time, it'll keep ticking yea only in failed films clocks stop ticking, but what would it be ticking away?ITS A MACHINE!!
Time doesn't control how things work,I AGREE of course we say "Well.. After time, things get weaker and break".THATS BECAUSE HUMANS ARE DUMP You could over-use something quickly and it could break.

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