You can pause time!

[uchytjes]

Okay, you all know the scene: you gain a special watch that has the ability to pause all time around you and you have no constraints on using it. well, maybe a few to make it interesting...

rule 1. time isn't "frozen" per say, its more like its moving so slowly that if you watch a rocket moving 500 meters per second it will move about an 10cm. (work that out and you get a virtual cookie )

rule 2. Force does not carry. if you punch someone who was standing still, they will feel the punch once unfrozen but will not move because of the force. Essentially, whenever you let go of an object, it has to be still with no force acting on it. However, if it is removed from contact by something else, it still retains force.

rule 3. any inanimate object you touch, as long as you keep contact, will function correctly. Examples being taking pictures/videos and shooting a gun. (the bullet will travel a very short distance the freeze. the force doesn't carry law does not apply in cases where the speed is caused by an object.)

following those rules, what would you do?

oh, also you do not age while time is frozen, but you do still have "needs"

 

[Johnny Impact]

Fake answer: I would be like the Flash in Kingdom Come, patrolling my city so quickly I would be everywhere at all times. No more accidents, no more crime. I would stop everything bad before it started.

Real answer: Camera. Local gym. Women's locker room. In between showings I'd do the things I don't devote enough time to -- housework, exercise, painting my entire Legion army, things like that. If I could sleep while time were stopped, i.e. get a night's rest in a few seconds, that would also be helpful.

 

[Ruedyn]

Prediction: Half the answers will be men peepin'.

OT: I'd just go around my school taking a baseball bat to people I don't like. After that, fuck with people. I'm sure I could think of a million things I could do with the power, I just don't want to list them all off.

 

[DugMachine]

Naked womenz and robbing banks.... that is all.

 

[Keoul]

500m/s : 10cm/s
50000cm/s : 10cm/s now divide both by 10
5000:1
Time has slowed by 5000%
Do note I am shit at maths so I could be completely wrong.

I'd keep the watch with me at all times but only use it in emergencies, Otherwise I'd get addicted to it and end up living a life frozen in time...

Or go rob people who are too cheap, like when you're selling one dollar muffins for charity and they're still asking for free stuff. Take all their cash, donate to charity, done.

 

[krazykidd]

Awww , i thought time actually froze, if it doesn't that means i can get caught doing crimes. I have thought about this A LOT , but your rules stop me from being the best criminal ever .

OT: i'd most likely just rob random passer by's on the street , seems like the safest bet since i could still be caught on video i guess . So robing banks and murdering my enemies is a big no no ( which i would do if i could completly stop time ).

 

[Yopaz]

I'd spend a lot of time reading, taking naps and eating. Since everything is slowed I wouldn't be able to use computers, but I could probably read everything in my physiology book in a night adding a few naps.

 

[Slayer_2]

Prediction: Half the answers will be men peepin'.

OT: I'd just go around my school taking a baseball bat to people I don't like. After that, fuck with people. I'm sure I could think of a million things I could do with the power, I just don't want to list them all off.

Looks above your post, then below... Good call.

I'd use my powers to squeeze the max out of life. Do tens of hours of work on my PC in minutes. Or to bike everywhere at "super speed". I'd probably have thousands of years in my lifetime.

 

[Zeren]

This sounds like a movie I saw a long time ago.

I know how that ended, so I might use the watch a little, but not much.

 

[Zyst]

Considering you don't AGE while using the watch which is my biggest gripe with this, I'd use the watch to sleep and solve program algorithms in my head then just resume time and note down the stuff, so I could just work from home take a few minutes doing what would take hours and have the whole day free, instead of working for home being working without pants.

 

[MorganL4]

This sounds like a movie I saw a long time ago.

I know how that ended, so I might use the watch a little, but not much.

Yeah, this was my first thought as well.

I'd probably use it for homework purposes, except I think I'd break the keyboard if I was typing that fast.

 

[curseuglod]

there would be a whole lot of stealing and tieing peoples shoe laces together. and the nad kicking oh the nad kicking i would do

 

[Zyst]

This sounds like a movie I saw a long time ago.

I know how that ended, so I might use the watch a little, but not much.

Yeah, this was my first thought as well.

I'd probably use it for homework purposes, except I think I'd break the keyboard if I was typing that fast.

I think it's stated force can be applied but it will only be effective once you deactivate time ... OH nvm, the third rule states objects will work at normal time, although do note that your computer has a limit on how many keys it can receive per second without losing data, that's keyboard hardware specific and computer specific. Anyway, what would seem like a second (if the poster above is correct with his 5000 times comparison) that would mean a second = 5000 seconds, ergo there'd be catastrophic amounts of data loss.

 

[Blue Jay]

People will say peeping, I'll saying touching, i'm not going to lie.

Also people who say they would work out are lying, if your'e not doing it now then you wouldn't do it with time frozen.

 

[RedDeadFred]

Your grammar..... It hurt me.

OT: I would probably use the watch for sleeping purposes. I'd basically have the potential to become amazing at anything because I could just stop time to practice certain skills or acquire certain knowledge.

I would also rob people who I do not like.

Also: holy shit these new captchas are difficult. The first one that I could finally decipher says die now.... WTF?!

 

[lord Claincy Ffnord]

This sounds like a movie I saw a long time ago.

I know how that ended, so I might use the watch a little, but not much.

Yeah, this was my first thought as well.

I'd probably use it for homework purposes, except I think I'd break the keyboard if I was typing that fast.

I think it's stated force can be applied but it will only be effective once you deactivate time ... OH nvm, the third rule states objects will work at normal time, although do note that your computer has a limit on how many keys it can receive per second without losing data, that's keyboard hardware specific and computer specific. Anyway, what would seem like a second (if the poster above is correct with his 5000 times comparison) that would mean a second = 5000 seconds, ergo there'd be catastrophic amounts of data loss.

Actually provided you had some rough idea as to the extent of your comps buffer, you could just unfreeze time as soon as you had typed around about that much. It would feel like far less than a second to everyone else, but not to you.
On the maths, there is 1 problem (sorry to bring it up). Given that that 1 is actually 100% not 1%, the actual speed up for you/slow down for everyone else would be 500,000%. Though, considering you are unlikely to spend anywhere near that long in seconds with time stopped in any one instance there would be virtually no differences. (Of course *my* math could be faulty here too)

EDIT: As for what I would do? idk, probably slow time while I thought up a witty response to this thread.

 

[Zyst]

I changed my mind, I'd become a God.

I considered and read before the cracked article about the guy stuck in a time loop (it was just one entry) but anyway, he relived the same day (or something like that) for an incredibly long time, I think that if that were the case I could spend so much time reading so much stuff (I'd download books, stick the time in a page until I understood it then unpause, skip to the next page and pause again and so on until the amount of information became insane. In a few centuries or millennia of lost time (Note that you don't age while being paused so that means you probably avoid all degradation including eye degrade from reading, at least I'd count on that for this) and just keep amassing knowledge until I became a god. I'd have to pick a point in my life where I'm not in any relationships or anything of the sort (considering I've been dating for 2 years, imagine 1000 years going by when in reality it's only been some weeks/a month and suddenly you don't really remember anyone anymore) or something like that. But yeah, God is my final choice.

 

[FalloutJack]

So, I'm Flashman now? Fine.

{1} Steal all current materials for nanotechnology, bio-DNA computers, and a group of relevant scientists. (NOTE: These technologies actually exist.)

{2} Explain to scientists that mankind can be saved if it is dragged, kicking and screamming, into a new technological age that is too incredible to resist the pull of, and therefore it is imperative to use what they have to create the adaptive cybernetic metacell, which would be far in superior to the power of even the best nanotechnology.

{3} Also explain that the consequence for not cooperating in this matter will be 55 groin punches a second.

{4} Wait for research to pan out.

{5} Keep waiting for research to pan out.

{6} Find out what the hell they need to make this work besides what they've got and then steal it.

{7} Resume waiting.

{8} Finally, machine cell 'cultures' exist, made to be programmed. Now, it's time to order them to program the metacells and wait for the inevitable betrayal where they try to sic the stuff on me directly.

{9} 55 GROIN PUNCHES A SECOND!!!

{10} Change the variables regarding who to attack and who to follow the commands of before the program could be switched on, using groin-punching interrogations to finalize the parameters.

{11} Lunch.

{12} Unleash the creation on the world and watch it slowly fill everything with an unstoppable technology that promises decent power and lifestyle for all, though all under my control.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

rule 1. time isn't "frozen" per say, its more like its moving so slowly that if you watch a rocket moving 500 meters per second it will move about an 10cm. (work that out and you get a virtual cookie )

I've worked it out! 500m = 50000cm, so time is slowed by a factor of 5000 if you watch it. But if you DON'T watch it, it goes whatever speed it likes! What fun.

At the moment, I would bring my textbook into every exam, and when I got to a question I didn't know, I'd pause time, go and look it up, put the book back in my bag then sit up in the same position. I would also (since from what I can gather, already moving objects keep moving and inanimate devices work as intended) pause time for a few train stations whilst on the train, then watch as all the commuters realise they've missed their station. I would also carry around a sledgehammer, and pause time while people are writing and give their pencil or pen a good smash, so when time unfreezes, it goes flying out of their hand. Later, I would use it to increase my work speed to superhuman levels and become the best employee of all time and go home early. I'd also pause while sleeping and get a night's rest in 600/5000 minutes. I'd also play online games and have absolutely the best reflexes of anyone ever (because other players would be moving slowly). And finally, I'd steal a lot of things, and possibly then, be an assassin (fire a few sniper shots and leave before they start moving again).

Actually you know what? I have no idea what you mean by rule number 2 and have probably violated it many times whilst trying to keep true to it.

 

[StBishop]

rule 1. time isn't "frozen" per say, its more like its moving so slowly that if you watch a rocket moving 500 meters per second it will move about an 10cm. (work that out and you get a virtual cookie )

rule 2. Force does not carry. if you punch someone who was standing still, they will feel the punch once unfrozen but will not move because of the force. Essentially, whenever you let go of an object, it has to be still with no force acting on it. However, if it is removed from contact by something else, it still retains force.

rule 3. any inanimate object you touch, as long as you keep contact, will function correctly. Examples being taking pictures/videos and shooting a gun. (the bullet will travel a very short distance the freeze. the force doesn't carry law does not apply in cases where the speed is caused by an object.)

I need to clarify some things.

Force is reliant on motion and change in motion. This requires time.

Are you implying that the force I create and thus transfer to other objects is scaled to normal time (ie. I cannot create almost infinite force) when applied to object I am not holding?

Is there any further limitations?

A few examples:

What happens if I pick up a rock and throw it? (please give some measurments, ie. distance/time travelled before it reverts to normal speed.)

What happens if I push someone/thing? What force will they/it experience? What will happen to their/it physical position?

Can, by touching another person when activating the device, I bring someone with me into my super long time world? (Assume constant contact is maintained).

Also, what the fuck does "retains force" mean? Are you talking about potential energy?

Edit: Infinite force was a large overstatement. I'd be creating force at 5000:1 the force a human can create normally. By no means infinite, but still significantly inconceivable in general use.