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Re: Time pausing
Posted By: Ellmyruh, on host 205.208.48.42
Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2000, at 21:58:56
In Reply To: Time pausing posted by eric sleator on Wednesday, October 4, 2000, at 21:05:53:

> Let's assume for a moment that you could pause time without being paused yourself. Aside from freezing to death (since no atoms would be moving) and not being able to breathe (although you might be able to; I'm not quite sure), what could happen to you?
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> I don't think you'd be able to see anything while time's paused, since light wouldn't move. For similar reasons, you wouldn't hear anything (not that anything would be moving to make a sound), since the molecules of the air wouldn't move, either.
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> But what else?
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> -eric "I've always loved stories and movies and TV shows and stuff where they screwed with time. The time episodes of TNG were the coolest." sleator
> Fri 27 Mar A.D. 2082

Even if you could see things, your brain wouldn't be able to comprehend it because all of your cells would also be stopped still in time, right?

Ell"Not a science person, but this message caused a synapse to fire briefly"myruh

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