If time "stopped"

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Clocks no longer move forward, the sun does not set but the days do not get hotter or colder regardless of where you are. Everybody shares in this phenomena, nobody is frozen, just the progress of time. Nothing grows, ages or wilts. The environment effectively never changes for better or worse.

What would your first thoughts be? What would you do?

 

[KatsuKitty]

This doesn't make any sense. Time is a man-made construct. Do certain mechanics of the universe stop working while others continue to operate? If that was the case, we'd just find new ways to keep time, based on the mechanics of the universe that do continue operating and show any sort of periodicity.

 

[Derbydollar]

'Time' seems to be a description of the process that takes place for any and all changes that happen in the universe.
Basically, the end of time equals the end of the universe IMO. Not too much thinking is going to be done when and if that happens

 

[melty]

I think it'd be great

 

[autisticdragonkin]

Clocks no longer move forward, the sun does not set but the days do not get hotter or colder regardless of where you are. Everybody shares in this phenomena, nobody is frozen, just the progress of time. Nothing grows, ages or wilts. The environment effectively never changes for better or worse.

What would your first thoughts be? What would you do?

This isn't time stopping its just a bunch of phenomena stopping. How does this relate to special relativity.

 

[melty]

ITT: spergs can't appreciate a thought experiment

 

[SpessCaptain]

Not a highbrow subject to be labelled in Deep Thoughts, but an interesting one, it might be more suited for OT but this too shall pass for now.

Anyway I'd spend my time looking at things.

 

[melty]

I only drink $400 bottles of wine when reading deep thoughts. It's that deep.

 

[GS 281]

Our bodies are highly dynamic systems trying to keep homeostasis in an environment constantly changing around us. Our lack of adaptive capacity would contribute to entropy as the stillness around us eroded our systems.

I'd play vidya and eat chocolate covered chips until I puked.

 

[AnOminous]

I'd get bored and do something edgy and retarded like try to murder someone just to see what happens.

 

[autisticdragonkin]

I would move to the place that is in twilight at the time because everywhere else would wither freeze or become uninhabitably hot

If there was no risk of environmental destruction I would move to somewhere which is warm and daytime

 

[QI 541]

Nothing grows, ages or wilts.

We all starve to death because no more agriculture. Well I guess time stop would prevent that too.

 

[The Master Debater]

If time stopped nothing will have existed and at the same time everything will have happened.

 

[Surtur]

I'd finally catch up on my sleep

 

[Some JERK]

My answer depends entirely on how prison sentences would be handled in this new "timeless" world.

 

[AnOminous]

My answer depends entirely on how prison sentences would be handled in this new "timeless" world.

I wouldn't care. I'd just get a continuance and since no time would pass, I'd never end up there.

It'd kind of suck to be the guy who got drunk on Friday and thought he was getting bailed out on Monday, though.

 

[Some JERK]

I wouldn't care. I'd just get a continuance and since no time would pass, I'd never end up there.

It'd kind of suck to be the guy who got drunk on Friday and thought he was getting bailed out on Monday, though.

Well that's what I'm wondering. Physical time may have stopped or looped or whatever, but do man-made measurements of time still apply? In other words, could I get sentenced to 30 years, do my calendar time and walk out the front door not having aged a second? If so, there are some things i'd definitely do.

 

[Vitriol]

This thread just isn't working.