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Post by whiteraven on Jul 5, 2010 8:56:44 GMT -5
So if two people stopped time at the same time what would happen?
Would the world be frozen or something, because person A could unstop it because person B stopped it and person B couldn't unstop it because person A stopped it. Or could they?
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 9:08:28 GMT -5
Well, time and distance are pretty much the same thing. Considering a quark is the smallest particle we know of (and that is pretty fucking small) time is divisible by a lot.
In layman's terms - stopping time at EXACTLY the same time is virtually impossible. One person would always be a fraction quicker.
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 12:14:49 GMT -5
I was actually thinking about this Gift a lot recently, and I was thinking there might be something along the lines of "whenever one Gifted with Temporal Manipulation comes within (distance) of another Gifted with Temporal Manipulation while using their Gift, the second Gifted is automatically pulled into the temporal field."
However, I'm still not sure how I feel about it, so until now, I hadn't bothered mentioning it.
I'm also not sure how this would affect stopping the manipulation, but I would imagine in this case the originator would need to be the one stopping it.
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 12:23:34 GMT -5
Although, the second Gifted could probably just drop out of the field if they felt like it. The first would simply remain in it and the second would be frozen like everyone else unless, perhaps, the first left the area and came back again, or something to that effect.
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 12:48:04 GMT -5
So, temporal manipulation does not stop time on a universal level? Hmm....
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 12:54:56 GMT -5
So, temporal manipulation does not stop time on a universal level? Hmm.... I'm not quite sure what you mean by this? Time is stopped -everywhere-, but I was thinking that if the user approached the vicinity of a (frozen) Gifted with the same ability, they would be pulled into the temporal field as well. |
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 12:56:19 GMT -5
However, we're discussing a rather different question here from the original. You are correct in saying two Gifted could not stop time at the exact same moment, so there wouldn't be a situation where control of the temporal field is debatable, even if we enacted the rule we're discussing.
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 12:56:37 GMT -5
Oh, right. So, the area of pulling another gifted witht he same ability is not universal, but the time stop is.
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 12:57:36 GMT -5
Oh, right. So, the area of pulling another gifted witht he same ability is not universal, but the time stop is. You got it  |
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 12:58:48 GMT -5
Co-incidentally, even though there's a barely finite chance of it, what WOULD happen if two gifted used the ability at the exact same time? Do you know? I eman, an educated guess will probably be in order xD
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Post by Ϛ Christopher Nightingale on Jul 5, 2010 13:08:27 GMT -5
Co-incidentally, even though there's a barely finite chance of it, what WOULD happen if two gifted used the ability at the exact same time? Do you know? I eman, an educated guess will probably be in order xD Well, the divisions of time are infinite, so you could say that it is infinitely impossible, but at the same time, you could argue that 1) Time is infinite, so anything could eventually be possible as long as there are no time constraints or 2) Coincidences happen. So if I had to make a guess, I would say either of the two could drop out of the temporal field whenever they wanted, but the one left behind could remain. If they both refused to leave, it would probably come down to one of them losing their concentration, probably due to a) falling asleep or b) becoming injured to the point of passing out. There are other methods of breaking the concentration of someone, but I'm using two very skilled Gifted in this example so it would probably take something like that to do it. |
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 13:18:25 GMT -5
I see. I didn't know that the divisions of time were infinite - I thought that they were limited by the divisions of whatever the smallest particles are.
But that doesn't change anything. It makes sense to me.
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Post by ∴ Jacob on Jul 5, 2010 13:39:53 GMT -5
I see. I didn't know that the divisions of time were infinite - I thought that they were limited by the divisions of whatever the smallest particles are. But that doesn't change anything. It makes sense to me. I could be wrong about them being infinite, but it certainly makes sense to me. I don't believe in bounds, whether in largeness or smallness, in time or in size. The idea of a limit to all of this just seems silly  |
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Post by Ithica Pettineo on Jul 5, 2010 13:47:31 GMT -5
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey. :3
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Post by tana on Jul 5, 2010 15:23:05 GMT -5
xD I always assumed that the smallest division time was the time it took for light to travel across the distance of elementary particles. E.G> Hadrons, Boson, Legons.
I don't knoow why I know useless stuff like that, considering we only do newtonian science in school.
I have a friend that works for the astrophysics department, and he's not seventeen for a couple more weeks. He tells me stuff.
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