But special relativity still applies. So you can only do this by traveling at nearly the speed of light away from or towards your target. Travelling this fast is a separate power with separate side effects, and you don’t have it.
Read 'The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Wormhole / time dilation causes the troops to experience time differnetly from the folks back on Earth. every time they return from a mission, decades or even centuries have passed.
Sounds like hard sci fi… My absolute favourite! I will actually take this recommendation as soon as I’ve finished Every Version of You by Grace Chan (which I also recommend btw)
You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time. Your muscles don’t move any faster. If someone is throwing a punch at you and you slow down time, you can appreciate the fist moving at your face for an hour of your slowed-down time, but you still can’t dodge the punch. If you speed up time, you still need to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions. So, instead of getting hungry every few hours, you get hungry in what feels like seconds. And, since you don’t have super-speed, you need to slow time back down again so you can eat.
It might still be a power worth having, but it’s not as awesome as it might seem at first.
Would your reaction time change? Maybe the neurons in your brain would be going at super speed, but maybe your peripheral nerves would still be slow. So, the time between hearing something and the signal getting to your brain would still take ages. Or, the light would hit your eyes, but it would be a long time before that was processed into a signal your ultra-fast brain could use.
You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time.
If you can’t perceive anything while time is frozen as a consequence of biological structure, then your “side-effect” is just complete nullification. You wouldn’t be changing your perception of time at all. Not much of a side-effect.
If your brain and senses can act at super speed but everything else in your body acts in real time, you’d still have an advantage in reaction time as you would be able to recognize and initiate your first reaction near-instantly.
Speed up or slow down time at will
Side effect: but, every time you do, it causes you to have an eight-hour-long, extremely intense psychedelic experience.
how come this guy gets to have two superpowers?
Slow down time enough that I trip for 8 hours and it’s only been a minute. Awesome
But special relativity still applies. So you can only do this by traveling at nearly the speed of light away from or towards your target. Travelling this fast is a separate power with separate side effects, and you don’t have it.
Read 'The Forever War" by Joe Haldeman. Wormhole / time dilation causes the troops to experience time differnetly from the folks back on Earth. every time they return from a mission, decades or even centuries have passed.
Sounds like hard sci fi… My absolute favourite! I will actually take this recommendation as soon as I’ve finished Every Version of You by Grace Chan (which I also recommend btw)
The humble shroom trip:
You are also affected.
This is the only side effect on this comment that doesn’t try to invalidate the power.
It affects your aging by 1,042x as much as the speed used. Careful, or you’ll either become dust or Benjamin Button yourself.
Requires large amounts of reaction mass and plenty of space.
You can’t actually change time, just your perception of time. Your muscles don’t move any faster. If someone is throwing a punch at you and you slow down time, you can appreciate the fist moving at your face for an hour of your slowed-down time, but you still can’t dodge the punch. If you speed up time, you still need to eat, sleep, and perform other bodily functions. So, instead of getting hungry every few hours, you get hungry in what feels like seconds. And, since you don’t have super-speed, you need to slow time back down again so you can eat.
It might still be a power worth having, but it’s not as awesome as it might seem at first.
It would be great for raw reaction time, granted you’d still have to wait for your body to catch up.
Would your reaction time change? Maybe the neurons in your brain would be going at super speed, but maybe your peripheral nerves would still be slow. So, the time between hearing something and the signal getting to your brain would still take ages. Or, the light would hit your eyes, but it would be a long time before that was processed into a signal your ultra-fast brain could use.
If you can’t perceive anything while time is frozen as a consequence of biological structure, then your “side-effect” is just complete nullification. You wouldn’t be changing your perception of time at all. Not much of a side-effect.
If your brain and senses can act at super speed but everything else in your body acts in real time, you’d still have an advantage in reaction time as you would be able to recognize and initiate your first reaction near-instantly.
It sounds like you’re saying “reaction” is something that happens in the head, while I’m saying “reaction” is something that happens in the body.