- Jul 18, 2017
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It has been a while since I studied physics, but this question intrigued me so I kinda dove in more than I should have lol."Surprisingly it hasn't. There are several elements that I have had to take artistic license on because if I didn't the game would suck.
Things like Electricity...surely that would stop working otherwise we have an infinite supply of power?
I've tried to keep things as realistic as I can but more importantly consistent. What I don't want is for something to happen in 1 scene that wasn't possible in another (without explanation anyway). This is science fiction after all so I suppose who is to say what could or couldn't happen?"
That particular nugget came to me by way of a late 70's early 80's movie Called "The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything" which was about of all things, a gold pocket watch that could stop time for short periods of time. I had thought that it might have been a part of the inspiration for this storyline. if not, it might be worth looking it up, and if it can be found it might give unthought of ideas (there was a second one also, but I don't recall the title. Oh, and please, if you do watch them, do so with the foreknowledge that they were made in the 70's/80's and so are likely to be highly cheesy, lol)
At first I figured that theoretically driving off a cliff and freezing time before hitting the ground would be survivable if the driver's got their seat belt on and the height wasn't too great as in this situation the car would start bleeding horizontal velocity (and drop all acceleration) when it crashed the barrier and the tires left the ground, and it would only have horizontal velocity it built up during the fall starting from 0 (accelerating by gravity).
But gravity is a bitch. Humans can survive max of about 9 g's normally but time is an important factor in this. The longer the time spent at high g the worse. There is one case of someone surviving 46g for a few seconds though.
Ignoring horizontal velocity, just the drop alone from a 100m cliff, you would be near the ground in about 4.5 seconds at ~45m/s. Which in an instant stop scenario (1ms) is like 4500+ g's haha.
Therefore the solution would be time. If the watch didn't freeze time instantly, but just fast enough it appeared that way to a casual observer pressing the button, say in 500ms of time, then suddenly that force is ~9g and the driver can probably hop out, cry a bit and walk off.