Thread: Slowing Down Time

In alot of movies, ive seen people move really fast (like in over the hedge or matrix or stuff) and kinda makin time go slower. I know thats just all in movies, but it kinda sounds kool.

Have any of you ever read anything about moving so fast, that time kinda slows down for you? So you think your going slow, but in reality your going super fast? And everyone and everything around you starts to move really slow?

I find it intriguing to say the least.

Im sure everyone who has read a little bit knows that we travel in the 4th demension, but we can only travel in one direction of it. We cant use the whole 4th demension, as we only move forward in time, and not backward in time, or stopping time completley.

Maybe if we could go back in time one second, and forward in time for one second, and keep switching out, backward forward, but geez i dont even know if its possible.

Just kind of something to think about, if one person really could slow down time, it would be very cool. You could do anything pretty much.

Any other opinions?

I've had a dream like this. I won't explain the entire thing, but I was a viking-esque warrior. At some point my movement became sluggish and I thought I was slowing down, until I realized that the hoard of attackers coming to kill me were moving even slower than I was. I easily fought off 50 plus attackers with my hightened speed and even faster awareness.

Time is the measure of action. It can't be slowed down because it doesn't exist literally, only figuratively. So, the only way to get the desired effect is to move faster and thus requiring a faster reaction speed. However, the time won't slow down for you then, you won't be in some slowed version of reality where you can take longer to make decisions at normal speed. You'll be moving at extreme speed and that's why you'll need the faster reaction speed to handle it.

i think you can train yourself to have faster reaction time to the point where it seems like things slow down a little bit, but nothing extreme like in the movies

personally I used to box guys all the time in highschool, and from my point of view, with the adrenaline pumping, when I got into the heat of the fight, it was almost as if time slowed down, punches were flying super fast but there were always these moments of almost standstill clarity or super fast thought or whatever you want to call it where time seemed to almost stop and I was able to make many decision almost at the same time

one example that comes to mind is this one fight I had backed the guy up against a wall and it was like in those kung fu movies where he punched and I kinda watched his fist go by my head and at the same time I saw an opening in his guard and like in slow motion I put a perfectly executed uppercut into his gut, and slammed a right hook into the side of his face, awesome KO

other times that time seems to slow down for me is when I am reading, I get cought up into the books flow of time and in the span of reading for twenty minutes it feels to me like I have been reading for hours

oops, im ranting, sorry anyway, good thread

If your moving faster, then everything else will seem to move slower...

So...to get the same effects, you could slow down time.

Slowing down time is possible in a dream, yes. I have also had other people move at extreme speeds, while i'm moving slower.

I have ran at super speed as well, but my brain didn't think any faster.

I can slow down Time without moving fast.
and so can you.
so can everyone.
If you just believe.
(wow that was so corny and cheesey. but hey its true)

Originally Posted by Acertine

i think you can train yourself to have faster reaction time to the point where it seems like things slow down a little bit, but nothing extreme like in the movies

personally I used to box guys all the time in highschool, and from my point of view, with the adrenaline pumping, when I got into the heat of the fight, it was almost as if time slowed down, punches were flying super fast but there were always these moments of almost standstill clarity or super fast thought or whatever you want to call it where time seemed to almost stop and I was able to make many decision almost at the same time

one example that comes to mind is this one fight I had backed the guy up against a wall and it was like in those kung fu movies where he punched and I kinda watched his fist go by my head and at the same time I saw an opening in his guard and like in slow motion I put a perfectly executed uppercut into his gut, and slammed a right hook into the side of his face, awesome KO

other times that time seems to slow down for me is when I am reading, I get cought up into the books flow of time and in the span of reading for twenty minutes it feels to me like I have been reading for hours

oops, im ranting, sorry anyway, good thread

This is probably different but sometimes when i play video games as the one i used to play it's really fast speeds it would seem as if time slowed down when i'm playing and sometimes it's too fast i can't keep up. I'm sure it's nothing like this but a mental thing, though.

Originally Posted by C911

In alot of movies, ive seen people move really fast (like in over the hedge or matrix or stuff) and kinda makin time go slower. I know thats just all in movies, but it kinda sounds kool.

Have any of you ever read anything about moving so fast, that time kinda slows down for you? So you think your going slow, but in reality your going super fast? And everyone and everything around you starts to move really slow?

I find it intriguing to say the least.

Im sure everyone who has read a little bit knows that we travel in the 4th demension, but we can only travel in one direction of it. We cant use the whole 4th demension, as we only move forward in time, and not backward in time, or stopping time completley.

Maybe if we could go back in time one second, and forward in time for one second, and keep switching out, backward forward, but geez i dont even know if its possible.

Just kind of something to think about, if one person really could slow down time, it would be very cool. You could do anything pretty much.

Any other opinions?

The reason why time slows down for people goin' really fast in movies, is because in reality, time slows down when you go really fast. Time travel, in theory, has been possible for many, many, many years, but only back in time. What you need to do, is just get moving faster than the speed of light, which is very possible if you have access to your local black hole. Black holes have a gravity SO INTENSE that they actually bend space. In those kind of conditions, it's possible to actually move faster than the speed of light (Atleast realitive to the rest of the universe) as you would technically be moving slower than the sleep of light, but within space that's moving aswell. I guess it's be like throwing a ball fro the back of a moving car. The ball is only moving so fast in relation to the car, but faster than that, considering the car is moving forward aswell. I think they're actaully building a time machine now, but instead of a black hole, they're trying to use really, really, really strong lazer beams to bend space into a loop. Then, that also brings in the theory of alternate dimensions, but that's a story for another time... I'm actually really suprised that I'm amoung the first to mention this in this thread!

I experience time slowing down all the time. Well... you could say that. It is actually my reaction speed doubling and therefore giving the feeling that time is slowing down for everything but me. I do parkour and martial arts so I need this. I think the adrenalin that you get from doing this stuff raises your reaction speed and heart rate etc... Just try it. Jump of a 4 metre ledge with a stop watch and count how many seconds it takes to hit the ground. Then look at the stop watch. There should be at least a 1 second difference. This also happens when you sprint or run for your life.

Originally Posted by awesomeoclock

The reason why time slows down for people goin' really fast in movies, is because in reality, time slows down when you go really fast. Time travel, in theory, has been possible for many, many, many years, but only back in time. What you need to do, is just get moving faster than the speed of light, which is very possible if you have access to your local black hole. Black holes have a gravity SO INTENSE that they actually bend space. In those kind of conditions, it's possible to actually move faster than the speed of light (Atleast realitive to the rest of the universe) as you would technically be moving slower than the sleep of light, but within space that's moving aswell. I guess it's be like throwing a ball fro the back of a moving car. The ball is only moving so fast in relation to the car, but faster than that, considering the car is moving forward aswell. I think they're actaully building a time machine now, but instead of a black hole, they're trying to use really, really, really strong lazer beams to bend space into a loop. Then, that also brings in the theory of alternate dimensions, but that's a story for another time... I'm actually really suprised that I'm amoung the first to mention this in this thread!

Actually, going the speed of light is impossible. You will quite literally turn into a black hole. Energy = Mass X (Speed of light) squared. When you move faster, you gain kinetic energy, thus increasing your mass. The mass must increase because the speed of light can't. The heavier something is, the harder it is to speed it up and the more gravity it has. Since gravity bends space, moving the speed of light will bend it so much, you will have the equivalent gravity of a black hole. Also, going into a black hole will result in instant death. If you were able to stand on a black hole and live, an infinite number of eternities would pass in the smallest amount of time possible. Though the onlookers would just see you stationary. If you want more information, your gonna have to reply cause I am all tired now. This stuff is rather simple when you look at it. Also, if you went 1 million killometres an hour, time would only slow down about 1 microsecond.

The light's "atoms" are not like ours, and dont have mass (or they didnt have something else..) and i dont think that is posible for us to get the speed. First we must build something that is faster than light. (cuz when we enter in this "ship" we will slow him down, and the whole fuel and evrything in it for that mather)..

Ya, i think the human body moving at the speed of light would be incredibally hard to do.. heh.. heh.. if only.

Anyway though, is there anyway to slow down time by using your mind to do so? Ive always understood time to be relative, but still somehow it would have to be possible, like Fordy said, when you fall down a cliff and count, i can see how it would be very different. Its the same when your going around a track on a dirtbike, the faster you go, if you count in your head the amount of seconds, you will be off by more and more.

guys, if you go faster than light you will become a black hole. Your own gravity will smoosh you into a singularity. Also, light is made of photons. Little waves of energy. Quite different to matter.

I agree with this.

I also am in belief that if your mind thinks faster, it percieves the world slower then normal, and so time is slowed down, is this true?

Originally Posted by C911

We cant use the whole 4th demension, as we only move forward in time, and not backward in time, or stopping time completley.

Surely, this slowing down of time is not breaking our laws of the 4th dimension. We are still moving forward but just slower. It may, therefore, be possible.
(I have no idea if this has been said as I haven't read any of the posts.)

REMINDS ME OF A LIMMERICK I KNOW:
There once was a girl called Miss Bright,
Who speed was far faster than light. <----- IMPOSSIBLE, I KNOW
She walked through the wood,
As fast as she could,
And arrived home the previous night.

Originally Posted by awesomeoclock

Time travel IS possible, and traveling the speed of light is possible with a black hole aswell, and here is my proof: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWwI...elated&search=

That's amazing. Except ...
/me wonders if this will be a retarded question
... how do you get something to "ride" the laser beam spiral (as in the coffee bean "riding" the current caused by the spoon in the coffee)?
Stupid question?

Very good question imo, but ya how do you get that? do you just drop downt he center and hope for good will or do the lasers carry you around in that spiral? Weird man... Weird

Just guessing, but I think the object, whatever it would be, would have to be fired in at a certan angle.

Check this out:
The dimensions from 1-10 explained.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=qU1fix...elated&search=
(Thanks to ID X for making me aware of this video).

Holy crap, i will check it out after i get done with my movie. Thanks Supder Duck.

And i have another note, if flys (the buggs) can make things move slower because of them having so many eyes, well can that kind of be integrated into us so we can see that slow?