If time were to slow around you, would you be able to put your arm through a wall as if it were butter?

Answer 1

Yes, you arm would be like butter (ha ha)


Seriously, yes you most certainly could. In fact, you could do it without any time shft. There is enough empty space between electrons and nuclei, similar to the way gamma rays and radio waves pass through you body. Of course, its just theory.

Answer 2

Assuming that you didn't change the laws of physics other than slow down time for the universe except you, then NO you still can not put your arm through walls like butter, since the electromagnetic repulsion force exerted by the molecules of the wall still can be felt by your arm. And your arm is equally exerting electromagnetic repulsion force against the wall.

Note: if you push your arm too hard against the wall, you will notice that the molecular bond holding your arm together will be the first to give, not the wall (i.e. your arm bone will most likely be broken or crushed before anything happens to the wall).

Answer 3

Yes of course, haven't you seen Neo do it in The Matrix? He put his arm through a wall as if it were butter. No really it would be possible because the atoms would slow down. Good question.

Answer 4

Not being a physicist, I'm sure this isn't what you're looking for, but what does time slowing down have to do with it? Surely the basis for being able o put your hand threw a wall like butter comes from all matter being liquid and constantly moving? Can you type an addition as to what time has to do with the proposal, please?

Answer 5

Ok, lets destroy some sci-fi imagination quickly. If, as you propose, you were able to slow time in a reference frame locally around you, you would have a serious problem. Lets say it was a 20 meter chunk around you. And you somehow artificially separated time in your frame. The rest of the world would continue on. By that I mean it would keep moving at 300 km/s, the background speed of the solar system. You, on the other hand, would have to accelerate your frame in your new time to catch up. In a one minute differential, you and your chunk of space would be 18,000 km away from the rest of us. It's dang cold in space.

Now, I don't think you have to worry about putting your arm through anything.

Answer 6

I am not a physicist but I`ll just put down my thought.
Why are we to able to put our hands wall right now ? isn`t it beacuse of the intermolecular bonding. The vibrations might be there between the atoms but the forces of attaction would remain the same no matter how much the time slowed down.
So I don`t think it would be possible .

Answer 7

Time is a concept and therefore cannot be acted upon in any way. The measurement of time exists only by agreement of society as to the means of measurement.


Time is the sequential arrangement of all events, or the interval between two events in such a sequence. The concept of time may be discussed on several different levels: physical, psychological, philosophical and scientific, and biological.

Answer 8

No.

The force of the electrons in the atoms of the wall against those of the atoms in your hand would be just as strong. The wall would still be solid and hard.

Ouch.

Answer 9

Only if the atoms in the wall were slower in speed, or equal to, than the atoms in my arm.

Answer 10

Yes, but only for a second, because when time caught up with you, your finger would stick in the wall.