If you could control time...

[Thais]

Consider this, though.

Hypothetically, if you're on a starship going .999999999999999999(etc.) the speed of light, if you have artificial gravity, what happens once you take a step? Once you do, will your combined velocities exceed the speed of light? If so, what will happen? Will your body go back in time, making it impossible for you to have taken the step in the first place? If so, that's a paradox.

Um...nothing. You move forward in the space inside the ship a little bit. In no way are you powering or accelerating the ship beyond ".999999999999999999(etc.) the speed of light" by taking a step inside the cabin. Astrophysics does not run on hamster-wheels.

I wasn't talking about accelerating the ship; I was simply wondering what would happen to you.

No matter how fast you move within the ship, you will not be moving faster than the speed of light, you will just be moving faster than you at the speed of sitting on your butt. Nothing extraordinary is going to happen to you. You cannot run faster than the ship is going, which means you cannot hit a speed at which you are going to be faster than light and able to...outrun time.

 

[snuffler]

Speed in space is relative. Since you would be in the ship only the planets outside of the ship would be going .99999999999999999999 etc, the speed of light. The ship would essentially not be moving, the universe would be moving past the ship. Therefore you getting up and moving within the ship would do nothing. However someone looking at the ship *WITH THE ABILITY TO SEE OBJECTS MOVING LIGHT SPEED* would more than likely see you disappear.

On topic if I could control time, god I dunno. Find out how the universe actually did begin? There's certain scientific things that I just want to know the answers to because there's WAY too much controversy over them. How the Universe Began, is there an actual god?.

And I would also go back into days of medieval times and "invent" an impenetrable fortress with "magic" fences that shock everyone that tries to get near me. Then with my immense knowledge of the magical ways become so popular that the legions of the mightiest kings were sent upon me to steal my secrets where upon I would battle them off since I had previously perfected the fighting arts (hey I can control time why the hell not learn how to fight?) from all ages. And I'd record it all and put it on you-tube. I'd be totally ripped too, cause it's awesome. Yeah...

*Edit* I've always been a fan of architecture and science so I'd probably learn both and design some really abstract building. The buildings that people come up with often inspire awe in me (see <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burj_Al_Arab>Burj Al Arab)

 

[zirnitra]

I have a habit of speaking before thinking. and have a lot of those scenarios where you say something, the music cuts out and everyone is staring at you gasping. so being able to rewind time by about 30 seconds would be very useful

 

[Birras]

If I could control the entire flow of the space-time continuim, I probably wouldn't go back in time to avert many major crises from happening, as that would most likely make the world entirley different. I would, however, go back 5-10 years and make a killing on the stock market. Also, I heard something similar to the spaceship thing, except it was 'Say you're in a car going at the speed of light, and you turn the headlights on, what happens?'.

 

[Landslide]

I'd impale people on a tree of thorns!

 

[mark_n_b]

I'd impale people on a tree of thorns!

You'd do what?!? That's about as funny as a screen door on a battle cruiser.

(I could do this forever. Buy me a delorian, please.)

 

[HomeAliveIn45]

*Insert grandfather paradox post here

 

[Landslide]

I'd impale people on a tree of thorns!

You'd do what?!? That's about as funny as a screen door on a battle cruiser.

(I could do this forever. Buy me a delorian, please.)

Read more!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shrike

 

[Jakeyboy776]

Ok what about this, say you are in a shootout..you survive that shootout to discover how to go back in time to that shootout, your original self sees and is distracted by yourself in the future therefor you would not go into the future now in that case would your futureself exist?

 

[ZacOfTheZombies]

*comes back from the future* Hey, who wants to try out Diablo 5?

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

This is making my head hurt already ~o_o~

basically, freezing time is literally freezing an object. so, if you want to pause something throw it in your freezer.

 

[sicDaniel]

Why do so many people post semi-scientific stuff in here, isn´t it a purely hypothetical fantasy topic?
Anyway, what I would totally do is using my time-tunnel to sleep. You see, activating it whenever I want and sleep a good eight hours while in the real world a mere minute passes by.
I never liked how much time is lost by sleeping.

Oh and since time runs differently when you are traveling at near light speed I just heard an awesome fact. If you start from earth with a spaceship that goes 99.999% (iirc) the speed of light, and four minutes pass in your spaceship, the time that has passed on earth will be 15.000 years.

 

[Vic Sage]

if i could control time what would i do......
I would fight crime! with a small irish man called paul who speaks worse english than Arnold Schwarzenegger and cannot stand up properly due to him being pissed!
Well, thats just me.

*jumps into the past.*

 

[CrazyBerk]

Weeeeell i've actually thought about this a lot.
First off i'd oggle attractive people while i stop time.
I'd cause havoc, burn things, rob places and then unfreeze time. All that sort of stuff. :3
I'd also go forward in time and see how good the games are

 

[Souplex]

Two words, Stock market.

Love them zeppelins

 

[Anarchemitis]

Zeppelin!

 

[NeedAUserName]

If I could control time well every bad guy ever (I say bad I mean really really bad (like Hitler bad)) would have been killed by me (because I am a nice guy). But that doesn't mean I would have selfish fun to, I would win the lottery on an annual basis and use a fake I.D. so no one is any the wiser and feel up every attractive woman for a mile (just checking for breast cancer (Im not a pervert (really))).

Just to say I apologize if I offended anyone with the comment about breast cancer.

 

[josh797]

id speed time up so that i could see if the messiah is real. and if he is, what are the circumstances that cause him to come

 

[DarkXDemon]

do you mean controling time as in time travel or the ability to stop/slow/speed up time
if it is time travel then i would travel into the future to see the end of everything i want to know (ex. myself, the world, universe etc.)
and if i can only control the passage of time then i would freeze everything and take money without people noticing...

 

[Limos]

The only time travel I could see ever happening would be the ability to step out of the timestream and into your own little time bubble where time is passing at a much slower rate. Then you would step back into the timestream and while you were in the bubble thousands of years would have passed. Unfortunately as your pocket universe would have nothing anchoring it to the earth the earth wouldn't be where you left it and you would probably open up a portal into a vacuum. Or the time difference would be too great and you would never be able to open the portal and step out because time wouldn't pass at all inside the bubble.


That's why I always find it funny that time machines in science fiction always move you through time but not through space, so you are on the same place on earth. But since the earth and everything else in the universe is hurtling through space at unfathomable speeds it stands to reason that even if you only went a few moments through time in either direction that the earth wouldn't be there when you landed. And if your time machine can somehow calculate the exact position of your starting point on earth at any given moment in all of time why can't it move you a few feet to the left and be on the other side of that wall?