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Re: Time pausing
Posted By: Ticia, on host 140.196.24.2
Date: Thursday, October 5, 2000, at 07:55:19
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?

I remember reading a story about a boy who "borrowed" his eccentric neighbor/scientist's Time 'slowing' device. When he took the opportunity to plant a kiss on the girl he had a crush on, it turned out to be (when he turned the machine off) the equivalent of punching her in the mouth.

Ti'found that hilarious'cia