My friend and I were discussing the best super powers to have and she chose stopping time. I said the power to stop time would be cool in some instances but not in most since you wouldnt have any precognative abilities to predict when time should be stopped and in some instances like a plane crashing into the ocean, you couldnt do anything to save yourself. Whenever you see anyone with the ability to freeze time in movies they also have the ablilty to move things within that time space (like on the trailer for Click when he moves the kid's baseball mitt). My theory is that if you can stop time you cant exert the force to move things within it, only the ability to move around it, like moving at light speed. Or if you can move things then you can't walk on water...ergo you could escape from a plane hatch but not make it back to shore because you'd sink in the ocean. Does anyone else agree or have some sort of quantum theory they could use to answer this question?
2006-06-20 08:38:19 · 17 answers · asked by da_coppa_one 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
If you can walk at all, then you would sink in the water.
If time stopping prevented you from moving anything, then you would not be able to move because you could not get the air molecules to move out of your way.
If stopping time did not prevent you from moving anything, then the same as you being able to push air molecules out of the way as you walked, you would also move water molecules out of the way as you sank.
Movement could also be hampered by a lack of gravity though. Gravity and time are often found linked together, and so, sense the force of gravity might be absent without the force of time, you would not sink in the water, but it would be very difficult for you to move without leaving the ground.
One more thing to think about. If you were able to walk around while time was stopped, all that displaced air would remain displaced until time started again. You would leave a vacuum trail behind you everywhere you went. When time began again, the air rushing back into position would create something like a sonic boom or a thunder clap. This is the same as the little pop you hear when you break a light bulb, but it would be on a massive scale.
What would be interseting in sinking in water when time is stopped is that you would leave a vacuum column in the water above you. You could stand at the bottom of the ocean and look up at that sky above you because the water would not return to its original position.
2006-06-20 08:50:59 · answer #1 · answered by Databit42 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you stopped time there would not be any reason why you couldnt move things within the moment you have frozen. True you cuold escape the plane, but you could also take time to inflate the emergancy slide to use as a floatation device, get away from the plane and the unfreeze it. Of course I would have to try to save the lives of the people on board as well.
2006-06-20 08:43:15 · answer #2 · answered by Cozzette 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think that with the availability to freeze time that you would be able to walk on water because your not freezing a living organism like water but the actual concept of time. Could you prevent things from happening? I would say more then likely yes because you could allow the bus to slow down so it didn't get into an accident.
2006-06-20 08:59:21 · answer #3 · answered by princesssfriend 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
While time stopped around you, it wouldn't alter physical properties. If you step out onto water, you'll still sink like a rock.
2006-06-20 08:42:43 · answer #4 · answered by ensign183 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your theory has one major flaw. As we move around we move the air around us ... if you "cant exert the force to move things within it" you could not move period because the atmosphere would have you trapped.
2006-06-20 08:43:52 · answer #5 · answered by sam21462 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As long as you're able to move normally, 'outside' of time, I think you should be able to affect objects and people, the same way.
Ergo, you would not be able to walk on water, even if it's not moving anymore, of its own volition.
2006-06-20 08:44:13 · answer #6 · answered by Joka 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd drown. Jesus walked on water but I'd drown. Quantum Physics doesn't cover stopping time to navigate water.
2006-06-20 08:43:54 · answer #7 · answered by Aria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, it takes time to sink, right? Ergo you can walk on water, air, anywhere your super heart desires.
2006-06-20 08:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
id say you can if you couldnt move things but you couldnt walk on water if you could (like on click when he moves the baseball mitt)
2006-06-20 08:42:29 · answer #9 · answered by fret87 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No ,water is liquid, and the only way you can walk on water is if it was ice!
2006-06-20 08:41:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋