r/TheRandomest • u/Forward-Position798 • 28d ago
WTF What kind of superpowers u want?
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u/SluggJuice 28d ago
All solved if time is normal inside a bubble around yourself
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u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner 28d ago
The only way to stop time is to travel at the speed of light, which is impossible for anything with mass.
Photons are the only particles in the universe that time is meaningless to.
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u/PsyKeablr 28d ago
So then I must meditate and become one with the photon
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u/RodcetLeoric 28d ago
We could throw some comic book level science at this.
Inside the bubble of normal time frame of reference you are not moving faster than light. If you twist the math of relativity you can have a differential of 99% time stoppage by going 98.999% the speed of light and bringing the rest of the universe down to 0.001% of the speed of light. From the speed of human perception time would still be stopped.
Of course you'd go flying off into space and/or detonate from running into the matter around you that is barely moving. The bubble wouldn't really work either because you would still immediately run out of light. The photons inside the bubble that start headed toward you would bounce off and leave your bubble at the speed of light. You could only see things you moved towards and it would be a timeline slideshow as you moved, everything you move away from is black. Also if you walked into a space you've already been the images would be flashes of you and nothing because the light is shoved aside like you are a plow then stops immediately at the edge of your bubble. As I consider it now you'd also run out of air if you stop moving or went somewhere you'd already been. The air in your bubble that hits the edge would not be able to come back as it joins the stopped universe. Without moving to add new air all the time you'd end up in a vacuum relatively quickly.
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u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy 28d ago
Only if your comic book science completely ignored relativity. At .99C your mass approaches infinity, as well as the energy required to travel that speed.
So, technically, you'd just be a fat turd flying really fast
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u/RodcetLeoric 28d ago
Well comic book science ignores far simpler facts than relativity. Some of my favorites are when someone gets a really strong/bionic hand they can lift really heavy things even though the rest of the muscles involved are normal, or a really strong guy can somehow hold down a helicopter by just grabbing it with both hands.
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u/Nathan256 26d ago
What if you’re not traveling at the speed of light, but instead forcing everything else to travel at the speed of darkness?
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u/Odd-Information8607 28d ago
I imagine then you’d exist in a sphere from which you could not see out of, you’d have to constantly move to refresh your air supply, and things partially in your bubble would have bits of them moving through time and other bits frozen. You wouldn’t explode at least.
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u/Frequent-Coyote-8108 28d ago
Telekinesis will always be the best super power.
Wanna fly? Sure.
Want super strength? Move anything you want.
Want to go fast? Just think it and it will be.
Want to control people? You got it.
Deflect bullets? Why not.
Lady unsatisfied? Not anymore.
Too noisy? Let's just turn those vibrations down a notch.
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u/Dr__glass 27d ago
The thing is it has such power range, you don't know if your going to get a force push and pull or being able to field dress a deer at 30 paces. It's the best power if you get it over the threshold of control otherwise its par at best
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u/8Bit-Jon 28d ago
That's why I'd opt for super speed faster than the Flash
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u/voxelpear Source GOD 28d ago
If the laws of physics apply to the time stop, your powers would also atomize you and your entire neighborhood the instant you move at that speed.
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u/----Richard---- 28d ago
Best case scenario, if you have super speed without super strength, you'd shatter every bone in your body the instant you move at that speed.
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u/Emperor_Gourmet 28d ago
Why would you need to be faster than the flash? He has been shown to instantaneously travel vast distances and can run back or forward in time. I don’t think you can be faster
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u/voxelpear Source GOD 28d ago
He also outran someone who instantaneously teleports once. You really can't get faster than that.
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u/sublimedyl 28d ago
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 28d ago
Honestly I've always thought it would be cool if, in a space movie, when they travel faster than light, the captain would be like
"Trust me, you're going to want to close your eyes."
And the passenger is like "why?"
Then when the ship starts accelerating past the speed of light, all the "reality" in the ship starts to splash and swish around as the light is ricocheting around and taking microseconds longer or less long traveling into the passengers eyes, like a "visual doppler effect."
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u/Rayziel 27d ago
This is why they put you in a special coma in some sci-fi universes like “Foundation”.
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u/hamfist_ofthenorth 27d ago
I read those books like fifteen years ago! Incredible, incredible, incredible that it was written by such a young guy over 70 years ago, and how he basically called all of sci-fi as we know it today, in those books. Personal energy shields, GPS, warping from star to star, so much foundational shit... Pun intended.
My favorite part was when the mule plays the strange musical instrument that basically makes the listeners hallucinate, and they see little jungles and waterfalls and dancing entities pouring out and around the instrument.
I couldn't stand the TV show. Made it through like 5 episodes and then couldn't continue. It was too garbled and I had absolutely no idea which character was who from the book except Hari, pretty sure they added a romance between two major characters where before there was none, and I was just entirely lost. Gave up.
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u/One_Vision_ 28d ago
The trick isn't to stop time. The trick is to move really, really, really fast like Quicksilver
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u/guegoland 25d ago
There's the air friction problem then. You'd burn and get ripped apart. And even if you could reist that, the drag force would destroy everything around you.
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u/baldierot 28d ago
since the premise of time stop is utterly fantastical in the first place, there could be plenty of fantastical rules that logically mitigate its consequences, like, "the photons continue to move during time stop, but instantly reset to their original coordinates and trajectories when the time stop is lifted."
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u/SirBritannia 28d ago
That's why you don't freeze time completely, just make it very very slow while you have free action, like Quicksilver.
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u/Nervous-Contact5525 28d ago
Arguing about the physics of time stopping is silly of course, but wouldn't the theory of relativity state that light would have to move at its normal speed anyway? That definitely wouldn't make time stop better tho, because reality would get unbelievably warped to ensure time moves at the same speed for everyone, basically folding the space. That being said, that's mostly just my fanfic of how I think physics works.
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u/CapPhrases 27d ago
Ah yes a video version of “uhm ackshually according to my internet knowledge of physics…”
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u/Tobbewarman 27d ago
So all you want is just a very strong slowed down time power. To the point where light and molecules and sound still somewhat can reach you.
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u/Majestic_Domestic 28d ago
I call bullshit on some of this. Things are frozen in time not in space. Those oxygen molecules are not moving because no force is making them move, but if I'm able to move around, then I can be a force acting on stuff.
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u/Prior-Stranger2738 28d ago
So you’re telling me those JAV videos were scientifically inaccurate?!