> If time is stopped outside of you, how can you see? Presumably no light is moving, so what would be reaching your eyes? I suppose that as you moved, the light that was frozen immediately near you would hit your eyes, but you'd see it and then it'd go black, as nothing would come to take its place.
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> Invisibility has a similar problem.

Both of your comments are reasonable; my preference for time-stopping abilities assumes the comic book form of them where any scientifically likely problems are ignored as a matter of course. If I wanted to get very scientific about it, I would probably go with OneCoolCat's modification in which everything just goes much more slowly. At that point, we're pretty much talking about the super-speed ability those kids acquired in that one X-Files episode, and it DID age them rapidly (or something similar where using the power severely affected their physical health). As Grishny pointed out, the rapid aging would be a drawback which might limit use of the ability. I'd have to think more on that one if it came up, but I look at it this way: if I were to live to 80 normally, and I chose to say, add one extra day every week (maybe split up as I please through the week) then I would still live to age seventy by everyone else's view of my life. An extra day every week would be awfully useful by itself, and split up judiciously, it could be used to great effectiveness, I would think.

Anyway, while we're getting scientific about this, I assume that I wouldn't be able to do things like drive a car while time was slowed down, because the engine wouldn't function properly. In that case, long distance travel would be pretty much impossible. Maybe instant teleportation would be more my thing.

> Stephen

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