> > You could give it a workaround by not stopping time, but just slowing it down a whole lot. You still see, because light is fast and the slowdown doesn't affect it, but everything else goes very very very slowly and is essentially frozen.
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> But that's not much of a super power... unless it's coupled with an extra-long lifespan. Think about it. If you move through time ten or twenty times faster than everybody else, then that means you age and die ten or twenty times faster than everybody else, at least when you're using your ability. Someone who could do that would probably think twice about using it for even dire emergencies, much less trivial things.
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> Gri"wants to be able to BAMF!"shny

Monkeyman's point elsewhere is well-taken. From your point of view, you age normally. Who cares if other people perceive that you're going to die young? You still get, from your perspective, a normal lifespan. That's what important. So I think OneCoolCat's plan is a good one, but you'd want to slow it down even more than ten or twenty times, really (if it's only ten times slower, everyone else experiences a minute for every ten you do; this is too much).

I'm not sure how much you'd want to slow it down. If you do it by a thousand times, that means for each day you have, everyone else gets 86 minutes. For every hour you get, other people get 3.6 minutes. That's still a fair amount of time for them. Moving 10,000 times as fast as everyone else might work: everyone else gets just about 20 seconds for each hour you do, and about 8.5 minutes per day. Light though is travelling at just about 30,000 meters/second, which is still much faster than sound (340 m/s at sea level), so for seeing things nearby you'd be fine.

Even still, you'd get a bit out of sync with other people if you used your power for extended periods of time. Now, while I think it would be a fun power, what's the point? Almost everything you'd want to do with it would be illegal, immoral, or both (the same goes for invisibility). The only reason I really want more time is because I spend too much of my time doing stuff I don't want to do.

The answer? Be rich enough that I don't have to waste my time working (and I could hire a driver so I would be able to make better use of my time travelling). I could easily become rich with simple telekinesis and a bit of time at the craps table or roulette wheel (and I don't have any particular problem ripping off a casino), so I'd essentially have more time *and* telekinesis, meaning I could also stop eating using utensils. Which is, of course, my ultimate goal in life.

Stephen