this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2024
795 points (100.0% liked)
Greentext
6453 readers
1259 users here now
This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.
Be warned:
- Anon is often crazy.
- Anon is often depressed.
- Anon frequently shares thoughts that are immature, offensive, or incomprehensible.
If you find yourself getting angry (or god forbid, agreeing) with something Anon has said, you might be doing it wrong.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
thats fine with me, since im not sick in the head, and i respect people's consent
This is a 4Chan user
Sounds like the type of thing the sickest fuck in the room would say to avoid suspicion
That's funny because this sounds like the type of thing the sickest fuck in the room would say to avoid suspicion
Recursion: see recursion
And that's why I haven't said anything. Now no one will realize that I'm the sickest fuck of them all.
That's my thought every time someone virtue signaling
Didn't even think about this. I thought of how crushingly boring and annoying it must have been to have been unable to move at all. For 6 months.
And now I realize it must have been dreadful, at first.
Imagine if your one of the thousands of people who would likely happen to have the sun in their eyes at the instant of freezing.
Depending on the exact moment you might assume you died and the ecstasy you were feeling was an afterlife.
Good thing is that since time has stopped, you won't get your eyes burnt since light stopped travelling as well.
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?
Yes, see my other answer.
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.
Does this mean everything would be dark?
The scenario doesn't really make sense as the electro-chemical activity in your brain would be stopped as well, so you 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.
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.
hence the Alcubierre bubble! everything you directly interact with is sped up to your time speed so that you're only ever interacting with normal-paced matter, and then as you leave the area everything gradually slows back down to near-stop
That's basically sleep paralysis.
So either six months of sleep paralysis or you experience six months of time in the instant that time returns, possibly mentally handicapping people from the sensation. Yeah, OP better go into hiding, anyone who survives will hunt them down - regardless of what they do.
not me. i would have done some nasty shit.
genuinely asking: what sort of things do you mean, and why ?
i would pee in people's drawers because i don't think that happens enough.
a little bit of both. but primarily in their nightstand drawers.
good luck getting anymore in mine!
"Honey! There's pee in my pee drawer, and it isn't MINE!"
I would have at least visited museums and the likes in cities I can't afford to visit, as well as making food with all the tasty high quality ingredients I can't afford.
Maybe drive around on some expensive motorbike just to see how it feels. If my financial situation at the time was especially dire, maybe take a "loan" from a bank somewhere before unfreezing time.
You'd have to be a saint to have that power and not do anything illegal. But one thing I would never do is fuck over regular people, only corporations and big businesses. After time unfreezes, those can recover from whatever I did and I doubt I'd but a significant dent in their profit margins, but regular people would have to live with the consequences of what I did, so that's a no go.
i see that we have different ideas about what 'nasty' means :)
A saint to not break laws? Laws are not morality, often they run directly counter to morality.
Eh, I honestly probably wouldn't do much. If we're going with the typical "time stop" rules where people just lock up and the days never change (trying to not think too hard about the physics), I would probably just work on a lot of hobbies that I don't have time for normally.
That's really boring, so I guess that says a lot about me... Now I'm sad.
Depends, what would happen if I stopped time in a moving car? Like if I were to stop time when that one car was swerving in and out of traffic, almost hit someone, then flicked them off?
If I stopped time then would I still be carried by the momentum and splat against the inside of my car leaving everyone frozen forever or undo time stop and some freak accident is talked about on the news?
Or do I get to stop time while they're flipping the bird, pull their car off to the side of the road, take off their tires, fill their gas tank with sugar, then swipe their offending finger in their butt crack and leave it pressed against their upper lip?
If momentum was something to worry about, I feel like you'd have to worry about the movement of celestial bodies/etc too.
thats the best part: you get to decide how the physics of it will work
What if you spent your frozen time, determining the problems of everyone in the world, and solving them? So, when everybody got unfrozen, it was a utopia.
Exactly. If someone mowed my lawn for me, that's cool. If they tied me to a chair so tight I couldn't move until they were done, not so cool.
One person's utopia is another's dystopia. There will always be people genuinely upset about what you did or what "utopia" you want to archive.
Dude you can get in trouble for doing a lot of things that aren't a criminal sex act. There's so much more out there! Doing H until you nod out in public, stealing products, playing guitar after 10pm, orchestrating dog fights, gambling on when elderly people will die, driving a type I school bus with a physical on file that's two years and ten days old, the possibility are endless.
Like half of these dont work if time is stopped tho.
I would still steel shit from larger chain shops to eat an stuff so that wouldnt work out. Also i would test my powers first.
steel shit? sounds painful...
Yes i have a disorder where i shit steel
Now there's a superpower! STEEL SHIT and then shoot them with your poo.
Floater shit! - - you shit towards a person drowning so they now have a floatation device.