If you shoot a bullet, then slow down time...?

Question

If you were to shoot a bullet, then slow down time and stand infront of the bullet, would it it you with the same amount of force as before you slowed down time?

Say you were to somehow distort space/time for only yourself, and someone fires the gun, and you slow down all time for yourself; The people in the original space/time see the bullet blow your brains out, but would it actually hit you like it would without time slowed down? If it doesnt, what would happen if you were to undistort your space/time? Would you see yourself dead on the ground and also be standing infront of everyone?

Answer 1

If you could slow down time so significantly as to observe these effects as you describe them, you would also introduce an extremely strong gravitational field very similar to that found near the Schwarzschild radius of a black hole. If you could do that, the bullet would be neither a danger to you nor would it be your main concern. Your main concern would be the planet being sucked into the near singularity you have just created. It would accumulate as a thin layer of neutron star matter in front of your face. The rest of the universe would look rather distorted and there would be a LOT of hard gamma rays being set free by the rapidly cooling neutron star matter layer.

If you want to ask a physics question, you have to play by the rules of physics. But if you want to goof off, the answer, of course, is that everything is possible because there are no rules. The Matrix is simply goofing off and that makes for a reasonably amusing story. Physics, in comparison, usually doesn't, which is why the best SciFi simply ignores it and mediocre SciFi just gets it wrong.

Answer 2

time would not effect the energy of the bullet and therefore would not effect the velocity. instead you would have your brains splattered over what ever happens to be near by. it would seem to happen faster to you though because of the different time frame of the bullet. however, to observers, when the bullet entered your little time field it would seem slowed down. so it is all relative to which position you are in

Answer 3

Your scenario is completely impossible and so answering it accurately is also impossible.

If you "stopped time" you would also stop motion, which means kinetic energy would disappear, which is a violation of conservation of energy. You throw around the idea very casually, but if it ever happened that would be the end of physics. So physics has no answer, ask in sci-fi (not SF, an SF author would laugh you out of the room).

Answer 4

Yes, it would. Energy and momentum have to remain invariant under transform between inertial reference frames.

As for the rest of it........ Look up 'cause and effect' ☺

Doug

Answer 5

you have too much time on your hands