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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:50 AM
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Does anyone else think
that if you could stop time for just a second it would unravel the web of the space time continuum??

Just wondering.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:51 AM
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1. put the pipe down, sweetie pie
get some sleep :D
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the Princess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:53 AM
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3. I gotta find
Some Skooter Pies first!

MAN I'm hungry.
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Willy Wonka Donating Member (283 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:02 AM
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4. Here have some..
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chicagojoe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 01:53 AM
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2. Time stops for nothing.
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:12 AM
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5. Time is a unit of measurement, just like distance or mass
Edited on Sun Dec-26-04 02:13 AM by TroubleMan
How do you stop a unit of measurement? How would you stop distance?

Technically if you could move a the speed of light, time would stop for you. If somehow you can go faster than the speed of light, then you would be going backwards in time. Also if you were faster than the speed of light, it would be harder for you to slow down than it would for you to speed up. So without resisting it, you would speed up infinitely and your mass would wither away...all while going backwards in time.

Scientists theorize about particles like this; they're called tachyonic particles.

So you could stop time just for you, but it's not going to effect anybody else. You could even go backward (theoretically).
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 02:52 AM
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6. There was a young woman named flight...
who traveled much faster than light
she left home one day
in a relative way
and returned on the previous night ;)
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CanuckAmok Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 03:01 AM
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7. I wonder that if I cancelled my subscription to Time, would I disappear?
n/t
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 03:59 AM
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8. If they had it their way
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SOteric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Dec-26-04 06:02 AM
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9. Heh. Nah. It doesn't work like that.
Time is a matter of perspective and relativity. It's a measurement, not a tangible thing. Time's Arrow isn't actually in motion, but the fact that entropy stops us from reversing the moment makes it appear that way.

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