(Scientific answers plz)Is it possible to survive the controlling of time?

Question

Me and some of my friends were creating a theory of the abililty of controlling time and thought it was plausible that it would be too difficult to withstand the effects of controlling time. Here are my thoughts on it.

First, the theory of slowing or stopping time stems from the theory of slowing down outside molecules or speeding up ones molecules. I see a major downside to this, if you are slowing down outside molecules, wouldnt that mean the motion of them slow down as well? Thus making O2, or oxygen molecules that are supposed to take the place of missing oxygen when breathing would not move, because you stopped time. So if you stopped time you couldnt breath.

Second, we thought that in stopping time, the molecules that didnt move would increase as much as time was slowed down. So lets use Stopping time for an example; if you stopped time, you are making molecules next to you not move at all. So the molecules slow down so much, and wont move too, because ... next details

....So the molecules slow down so much, and wont move too, because they slow down as much as you slow down the molecules. So they become infinently heavy making it impossible to move.

Another example I can think of is if you slowed down moleculecular movement halfway or speed your self 2 times, that would make surrounding molecules react 2 times slower. So that means every breath you take will require 2 times the strength that would be required if your molecules were moving normally.

In short, my theory of slowing down time is that moleculular movement would be reduced so much that it would be; A) impossible to move due to the weight increase of each molecule that exists outside your body, and B) that breathing would be difficult and/or non-existent due to the molecular retardation that occurs.

I just want ideas and feedback on this theory that me and my colleagues have thought up.

Answer 1

Well, actually, your theory is very similar to that of the Theory of Relativity, or something. If you slowed down time by moving faster, the objects would literally gain weight. (Fat people, plz do not go on space missions...) And once you were travelling at the speed of light, you would have infinite weight. (But of course, your MASS would still be the same. So fat people should let out a big breath.) I'm not sure exactly which theory this is...

Answer 2

Ok, it's great to see that you are thinking. However, there are a few considerations to be made that will render your theory null. First, if you are trying to change time by slowing down or speeding up, you will have a hard time doing this with any conceivable method. To accelerate, you need some way of accelerating. That is generally done by using forces between two masses. For instance, a rocket accelerates by increasing the velocity of gasses in one direction, and the resultant acceleration of the rocket is in the other. So, your idea of just slowing down molecules can not happen independent of the local frame of reference.

But, as we are talking about relativistic speeds, we need to have some reference. You are right in trying to change time by change in velocity, but the scale is wrong. We are currently traveling at a base velocity of 300 km/s. This means that if you were to jump ahead in time one minute, the solar system would have moved on 18,000 km. You would be in space. The molecules around you would be in space.

So, to conceivably have a time machine, you need to get going very fast. And considering you are already at .1% of light speed, trying to achieve a similar velocity outside of earths reference could be a first step. The fastest man has come is with the Helios solar probes, at 70 km/s. And the sun's gravitational field was helpful for those two. Now, we have accelerated particles, a few at a time, to significant velocities. But, think of the energy required to run a particle accelerator, and multiply it by tens of orders of magnitude just to do the same for a fingernail.

To end, if you slow down time locally somehow, everything else still has a velocity and keeps moving. If you accelerate yourself, the energy required is not accessible to us at this time.

~fini~

Answer 3

no....
you would be literally "smashed" by your surroundings, because, regardless of whether you speed up, or everything else slowed down, your surroundings would be moving so slow that it would be like being in cased in cement. Air molecules wouldn't move fast enough, it would be like trying to break the sonic barrier, in a rather abstract sorta way... make sense?

Answer 4

it seems to me that if you moved the molecules in our body wouldnt that be the same concept of a microwave? i mean microwaves heat up food bc it makes the molecules move faster than normal so if we moved our molecules wouldnt we heat up or somthing or possibly explode? i dont know just a question i thought i would share with u and ur friends.