Time stopping ability question...

[dyk]

time is cruel life's way of giving you a materialisation of constantly steping closer to impending death in the future *tear*

[theAEmix]

Well here is my opinion.

If only one part of someone is entering the area of the time distortion.  Wouldn't that effectively create a barrier to whatever time flow is outside?  Essentially as the leg approaches the edge of the bubble, at some point, whatever reaches that boundary first will be instantly frozen and unmovable by the rest of the individual outside the distortion, effectively creating a wall or physical unmovable barrier. So anyone moving into the bubble, or someone moving the bubble into someone, would just be knocked back or deflected.

At least that is what I think.

But if time was stopped while they were already splitting the boundary, the leg would freeze, the body would remain connected, and as mentioned blood flow and other normal functions would be interrupted. As if someone suddenly sheared the leg off and sealed the end.

[shabutie]

I always see it as impossible to only be able to stop time isolated parts of space.  It would either have to be everything or nothing.

Otherwise, it's not really you stopping time, it's you just 'freezing' (haulting) that area.


Though, if you can stop time in an isolated area, now that area is forever in the past by however long you stopped it for.  So lets say you stop it for 1 second (Using time to measure how long you ceased time from moving? Yay!),  now that isolated area is 1 second in the past.  So if someone we're to run their hand through it (like a hand over a candle or something), you'd see their current hand, and the hand from 1 second ago.  The hand from 1 second ago might look as if it's attached to nothing, but it is in fact attached to the arm of 1 second ago, that cannot be seen.


~ My random theories on isolated time stopping (though all in all, I'd have to stick with the all or nothing take)

Hope I made some sort of sense.

[saidin1015]

I always see it as impossible to only be able to stop time isolated parts of space.  It would either have to be everything or nothing.

Otherwise, it's not really you stopping time, it's you just 'freezing' (haulting) that area.


Though, if you can stop time in an isolated area, now that area is forever in the past by however long you stopped it for.  So lets say you stop it for 1 second (Using time to measure how long you ceased time from moving? Yay!),  now that isolated area is 1 second in the past.  So if someone we're to run their hand through it (like a hand over a candle or something), you'd see their current hand, and the hand from 1 second ago.  The hand from 1 second ago might look as if it's attached to nothing, but it is in fact attached to the arm of 1 second ago, that cannot be seen.


~ My random theories on isolated time stopping (though all in all, I'd have to stick with the all or nothing take)

Hope I made some sort of sense.

As I see it, time and space exist separately(with space moving through time) allowing for time to be stopped within a certain space (or rather halting the movement of a certain space through time). When stopping time in an isolated area say for an hour, everything in that space becomes unobservable because it is stuck at a specific point in time and can only be observed at that point. After the hour, the isolated space would rejoin normal flow at the moment it was halted thus changing the future because what was previously unobservable would become observable. The leg would still be dismembered because of the disruption of the cellular and atomic bonds.

Another theory, because this is all conjecture, is similar to cutting and pasting. Time would be stopped around an area and rejoin time the moment the time stop ended. For those who don't understand, it is simply preserving an area of space at a certain time which would be useful for things like food storage as it would never spoil.

[Roven]

aaaaggggghhhhh......

[BrownMasterV]

That is all.

[fohfoh]

The only problem with stopping time on a single object like a leg is that there are external forces still acting upon that thing. Which is why I'd feel it's like ghosting or "time lag" (few stages behind) similar in idea to viewing something light distorted. (the straw in a class of water idea)

If an object is moving, those forces don't end just because time stopped. IMO, it would be something like, let's say we have a square, and a ball. Ball is moving towards the square of stopped time. When it enters the square, an image shows up, but halts soon after. After a certain "time period" from the outside based on the forces acting on that ball, it will exit on the other side of the square sort of like a magic trick.
Or...
Like a strobe light. You see a frame of the object as if it's frozen, but in reality, the object is still moving. Or, in the case of an unmoving object, it just sits there with a lapse of a gap based on the "visual" input.