If You Had The Option To Pause Time Would You? And Why?

[EmilyAdkins1]

I would because I would love to just roam around places without rules.

[Atheist]

Emily, if you paused time, you couldn't do anything because without time there is no change. Sorry to be a bore, but I am old and seen it all.

[EmilyAdkins1]

That’s fine I get that just some stupid thing I came up with

[Atheist]

Emily, keep coming up with them. I enjoy hearing people's ideas. I might smack them a bit, but that's only to stimulate thought and an intelligent response (by intelligent, I mean that your thought has gone into it, not that you or I are like Einstein or Russell.)

[Etch]

I'd be interested to know who Emily thinks you mean when you say 'Russell' - no clues Atheist :-)

[Theland]

No I wouldn't. No point.
Something like that would only be used to so show be disruptive, and who would want that?
Unless of course you could suggest some benefit?

[Karolina82]

There was an Australian television series many years ago called "The Magic Boomerang" When the boy threw the boomerang time stood still.

[Atheist]

Theland, surely heaven would be timeless?

[gness]

If it meant Dave would be in the time standing still place and I could move then yes.
I would find a home for the thirty seven cameras on his office floor and take at least seventeen of the jackets he is never going to wear and about a dozen unworn pairs of shoes to the charity shop.
He can keep the crazy tee shirts he sometimes buys as they eventually make fun cushions.

[Theland]

Yes, for us all.
I remember the boomerang :-)

[Etch]

Pausing time would mean no change (in the world about you), which would make it difficult to do anything - no forms of transport, even getting into 'places' would be impossible, because doors, windows, etc would not open.

[rowanwitch]

Yes because sometimes I crave silence and stillness.

[Roobaba]

Etch - // I'd be interested to know who Emily thinks you mean when you say 'Russell' - no clues Atheist :-) //

Ok, a Roobaba clue.. It's not H. G. 'Bertie' Wells (who famously wrote The Time Machine and The Invisible Man).. could it be the world-renowned Bertie Russell?

Emily, you do think of some interesting ideas, not in the slightest bit stupid. I would suggest being invisible may be better, pausing or stopping time would mean that everything around you would be 'frozen' and not move, like a photograph being an image of one frozen moment in time. I'd prefer to be invisible, that way you could roam around places with people still living their lives and you not observing the rules they do. I have thought of this before, as I am sure have many others, the difference with me being I need to pursue the idea to find the answer.. I'd ask the question - 'could this be possible?'... Timeless physics?

Julian Barbour in his 1999 book The End of Time advances timeless physics: the controversial view that time, as we perceive it, does not exist as anything other than an illusion, and that a number of problems in physical theory arise from assuming that it does exist. He argues that we have no evidence of the past other than our memory of it, and no evidence of the future other than our belief in it. "Difference merely creates an illusion of time, with each individual moment existing in its own right, complete and whole." He calls these moments "Nows". It is all an illusion: there is no motion and no change. He argues that the illusion of time is what we interpret through what he calls "time capsules", which are "any fixed pattern that creates or encodes the appearance of motion, change or history".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Barbour

Very interesting.. something to think about! :O)

[eve1974]

yes - so that my great hairs n wrinkles slowed down

[Roobaba]

..and we get on to determinism and free will, do we have any choice in our volition or is the future 'fixed' and predetermined?

[Chipchopper]

Having the ability to make time stand still would be a lot of fun but could have far-reaching ramifications.

[JimF]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fermata

[jennyjoan]

Emily - if you could pause time for a long while - you wouldn't be even here as you are only 20 and you would have been just a twinkle in your daddy's eye.