POV: If you’re not immune, you wouldn’t be able to realize it
You realize you’re not immune right AS you are in the midst of the act of snapping your fingers
And you are stuck in that thought forever.
Assuming nobody else is immune and has the power to restart it. If someone else did have the power to restart time, I think the thought process would go:
Bob: “Aha! I have the power to stop time with the snap of my fingers”
[starts to snap]
Bob: “Oh wait! What if I’m not immune!”
[time is frozen]
Some dude elsewhere: “Weird, time stopped again! I guess I’ll take advantage and rob this bank.” Then, later “Ok, got all the money, now I’ll just crack my knuckles to restart time.”
[time is unfrozen]
Bob: “Wait… I just snapped my fingers and time didn’t stop! I guess I don’t have that power at all!”
That is an amazing story idea! One person has the ability to stop time, someone else somewhere has the ability to start it. They could even have a cat and mouse thing similar to Death Note…
But it’s ok because you don’t realize you’re stuck
Unless you realize really fast
Realize as in remember, yes, I give you that. But realize as in you’re surprised, not.
Yeah, I realised that. Must mean I’m immune.
Yeah, just “you’re not immune” would have been better.
Yeah, I actually think about this. People recognize that time is a dimension of our reality, but ask: why does it only move forward? But wat if it doesn’t? What if we go backwards and forwards often? But our memories are “unmade” when moving backwards and “remade” when moving forwards. We simply can only perceive the forward direction.
i used to work in remote tech support. one time i disabled the network adapter on the customers computer that i was remoting into
I work a lot with remote servers. I locked myself out in a similar way once or twice before. I felt like the dumbest person alive every time it happened.
I changed some of my router’s VPN settings from abroad once because it wasn’t performing as expected.
To apply the setting (through the GUI), I remembered you had to press the stop button and then the start button (there was no restart button in that menu). Guess what happened.
average router GUI
I was tech support in college. I was handed a hard drive to wipe.
Connect HDD to laptop, load up DBAN, select drive, kick it off. NBD.
Oops, I selected the laptops os drive…
i’ve done something similar with dd before
I once decided to actually use the dread command.
rm -rf /
I was nuking the OS, so fuck it.
Forgot to unmount my data first…
That’s pretty minor.
I’ve done some terrible things. That’s how you learn (you know what they say, test in prod)
oh i’ve done other fuck ups too…
e.g. one time i ran
rm -r /*on a server.
luckily it was a test server, but i did manage to wipe one of the drives shared across the entire testing cluster with that one
Imagine the following:
You actually can stop the time by snapping you fingers, but it stops time for the entire universe, including yourself, with the exception of one single observer on some unimportant planet in the Andromeda galaxy. After 100 years from the POV of that observer, time resumes again.
Would you even be able to tell?
Wouldn’t you just keep snapping your fingers, wondering why it wasn’t working? You wouldn’t notice time stopping.
We could have a whole vent diagram of people than stop time, start time, or be immune to it. Imagine just going out for drinks with friends when times stops. But this has happened before so you walk across town, go in some dudes living room, and force his fingers to snap.
“Ah! Oh it’s you. Time stopped again?” “Yup” “Alright. Well hopefully whoever’s stopping time this time doesn’t REALLY like to snap.” “Hopefully. Well might be seeing more of me again. Bye!”
It could be happening for real right now and you wouldn’t know it.
You’d notice an angry creature from Andromeda punching you in the face and threatening yo break your fingers tho…
No. You would have to snap ~25000 times, for the light originating from there, to even reach you (Assuming, that light is unaffected by the time stop).
Time not stopping for light, but (almost) everything else, would cause a whole lot of problems. Sounds like a nice scenario for What If
If we take this in consideration and assume, that his equivalent of air is also affected and therefore cannot be moved. The affected would be stuck and unable to move and die of asphyxiation in a dark void.
EDIT: Another interesting factor to consider is, that if the affected were able to move, he would have an undefined acceleration due to delta v / 0.
Also he would be blind and deaf
I saw a short story about a hero who could stop time but he could only see things he was looking at before he stopped time or was walking towards so only looking directly ahead. It was established by a thought experiment or something that addresses the reader. I really wish I could remember the name of the story but it was so long ago I don’t think I could remember the name even if I heard it
The Man Who Could Work Miracles by H.G. Wells maybe?
Like I said it was so long ago I wouldn’t know the title even if I saw it but it was in a middle school English class if that info helps at all
This hypothetical scenario assumes that stopping time is universal and instantaneous. Simultaneity in two reference frames, even when that doesn’t make sense. Someone on earth snaps their fingers, and in that same instant, some unwitting observer spends 100 earth solar cycles in frozen, abject terror.
Entire universe no. Stopping this particular galaxy and not the others, the average Joe wouldn’t notice. But I think the astronomers could tell?
How would astronomers be able to tell?
Because after moving very slowly and steadily for just about forever, the other galaxies will suddenly make a jump of like ten thousandth of a degree.
I don’t know how many light years the nearest edge of this galaxy is, but I’d wager it would take some time for the jump to be apparent to us.
Various events around the universe occur on human timescales. If time stopped for use, we would effectively skip ahead on the view of them.
I actually think we could reliably catch 1 second time stops. Scientists monitor various pulsars. They spin multiple times a second, throwing off radio wave pulses. If all of them suddenly went out of sync with our clocks, it would definitely be noticed. It might take several, however, to prove it wasn’t a weird hardware glitch.
Other galaxies wouldn’t move at all if time was stopped for the whole universe
Time for a calm existence experiencing nothing and going nowhere, never
🙂 you can stop time by snapping your fingers
💀 you cannot unstop time, and this state will persist until you die, making you lonely for years
You end up stopping time for yourself and pausing the entire universe indefinitely
Eventually, Kars stopped thinking.
Alternatively, snapping your fingers stops time but snapping again doesn’t start it back up.
“OP will come to a brutal realization that time marches on and has no master … in the twilight zone”
Clever meme lol
I read it as you realize you are not alone and that made it far creepier
Here’s a question, would you even be aware? Does one’s awareness supersede time?
The more I think about existence and awareness the less I understand about them. Why the hell am I here?
This shit keeps me at night.
I think I believe that it’s all the brain. You can change someone’s personality entirely through accidental injury or intentional damage/medication.
And existence is just all chance. I used to desire more from everything but now I think humans are just another animal who developed a different evolutionary strategy and life is merely another means for entropy. Not to say it’s not unique, but the value of it is only what we determine it is to ourselves.
Same energy as “does god exist? We’ll know when we die”
Jones on you, I can’t snap my fingers.
Sad Lil’ Jon noises
“yeah… Okay :(”
I think this image would work perfectly fine without the second line and just the picture
Jesus Christ how horrifying
Don’t give them any ideas. So many universes ended this way.
In the beginning the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered a bad move.
- Douglas Adams
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