Stopping Time?

Whenever someone on a tv show or in a movie stop time they always seem to be able to do it very easily. I am not going to dispute the impossibility of achieving this with our current level of technology or that a biological being would somehow be able to achieve it on their own via a gamma burst or an eclipse. The thing that really concerns me about the whole concept is, if that person is really actually stopping time they could possibly produce a grave situation for anyone they decide to take with them. Let's say if that person were to bring someone with them on the time travel adventure and somehow leave that person behind. The consequences for that person would he atrocious. Once the time traveller resumes his position in time, the passenger would now become stuck at that one point forever. An infinity would pass for that person and the matter that they are composed of. Some possible situations that could arise would be that person would consume their lifetimes worth of oxygen, food and water in what would seem like an instance for everyone else. Proving to be possibly disastrous for the rest of the planet. The percentage of oxygen would reduce drastically because no oxygen would be being produced while that person is consuming it. The person and all of the waste they produced would last for an infinity within a point of normal time.

The only way it would be less disatserous for everyone would be if instead of the time traveler stopping time, they merely slow it down. This would be more reasonable. Depending on the rate in which the traveller slows time down would depend on how long an abandoned passenger would have to wait until the time traveller realized what happened and slows time down again. it is much easier to comprehend that all of the waste that the passenger produced would not be confined to a single point within time, it would still be visible to the people at the normal rate of time, it would just decay at an increased rate.

Moral of the story is simple, if you can stop time, make sure you don't bring anyone with you and if you can slow time down make sure you decrease the rate of time so that you have enough time to re-slow time down in case you leave them behind.

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