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Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime

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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 August 2015 03:50:43 UTC+1, Don Kuenz  wrote:
>> So there you have it. Inertia as the key insight to hypertime. :)
>
> If you preserve inertia, then your story is mostly about
> walking around looking at stuff.  You may not even be
> able to leave a room, if the door is closed.
>
> But, depending on the speed ratio, you may be able
> to move objects, but with a proportionately greater
> effort than before.
>
> Another approach is that an object which you touch
> becomes accelerated, or, you can turn the effect off
> and on, and incorporate the object in the effect
> that way.
>
> Maybe ask _The Flash_ about the best way to deal
> with all this...
>
> I've been watching TV repeats of _The Wild Wild West_
> and my impression is that "The Night of the Burning
> Diamond" represents a point of deliberate abandonment
> of plausibility, although I may be forgetting some
> wacky hi-jinks earlier on in the series.  I don't know
> if _Star Trek_ then deliberately re-used the idea
> (I assume the dates are that way around) or if every
> fantasy show at that time used it.
>
> In the Next Generation episode "Timescape", time seems
> to be stopped - or paused - but I don't remember if
> it's just passing very slowly.
>
> Either way, the problems described in
> <http://what-if.xkcd.com/1/> would tend to arise.
> I was browsing the book version the other day;
> it does tend to express disastrous consequences -
> sometimes not even implied by the original question,
> such as "What if everyone in the world pointed a
> laser pointer at the moon", initially nothing -
> and I'd mark it somewhere below "Ideal Gift" for
> that reason, depending on who you're shopping for.
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time> is another
> variation - and apparently a "registered trademark"
> for _The Matrix_, but also a common expression in the
> context - so I wonder if I'll receive a lawyer's
> complaint about misusing the term.
>
> "The New Accelerator" offers another alarming consequence.
> Nothing excessively disastrous happens in the story (that's
> saved for "The Man Who Could Work Miracles"), but in closing
> it's proposed that people will use the accelerator drug to
> do their daily work - which suggests to me that it becomes
> in effect compulsory.
>
> That this stuck in my mind suggests that Wells or his
> narrator didn't think of an army of accelerated soldiers
> who can exterminate entire non-accelerated nations in
> less time than it takes to write this parag
>
> .
>
> .
>
> .
>
> Futurama episode <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys>
> (the title refers to a sum of money) uses slowed time
> in a much happier way.  (The military extermination of
> entire nations features in the episode set-up.)

Thank you for augmenting the hypertime list and giving me even more food
for thought. "The New Accelerator" singes objects and foreshadows xkcd's
take. "The Infinite Worlds of H G Wells" [1] is a TV mini-series that
adapts "The New Accelerator" for its opening episode. That episode
actually features a baseball that becomes singed when the hypertiming
Professor Gibberne throws it. It also highlights H G Wells' common sense
in regard to new situations.

There really ought to be a hypertiming Dr Miguelito Loveless somewhere
in "The Wild Wild West" can. :) My original post also neglects to
mention "The Time Travelers." [2] The Travelers end up hypertiming near
the end of the movie. The hypertimers also show up as a flicker at the
beginning. 

Notes.

1. http://tinyurl.com/nqhuttn
2. http://tinyurl.com/nbxyog6

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 ,-.                              There was a young lady named Bright
 \_/                              Whose speed was far faster than light;
{|||)<   Don Kuenz KB7RPU            She set out one day
 / \                                 In a relative way
 `-'                              And returned on the previous night.

What you do speaks so loud that I can not hear what you say. - Emerson.

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Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 02:48 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:54 -0400
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 16:44 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-22 03:32 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 10:35 -0500
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 17:50 +0000
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:50 -0500
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:02 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 16:47 +0000
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-22 12:35 -0700
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:04 -0500
        Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Shawn Wilson <ikonoqlast@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 16:41 -0700
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 12:49 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-22 14:56 -0400
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 20:49 +0000
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Richard Todd <rmtodd@servalan.servalan.com> - 2015-08-22 17:10 -0500
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-22 17:07 -0500
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 11:15 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-22 22:41 -0400
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-22 20:50 +0000
  Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) - 2015-08-23 02:20 +0000
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2015-08-23 13:45 -0700
      Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-23 17:14 -0700
    Re: Inertia as the Key Insight to Hypertime Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-24 01:28 +0000

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