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chasrob
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I’m writing a story about a super-powered being and thought it would be neat to quantify his capabilities. Usually, he’s normal, human, but he can ramp up into super phase where
A)His actions and perceptions are cranked up to the point where one second of his “time” is equal to 1.67 nanoseconds of ours (yep, I just basically plucked the number out of the air).
B)The maximum velocity at which he can move is about 100,000 miles per second, roughly half light speed.
So, by his perception, a photon of light would travel about 20 inches a second, eh? How would you think his eyeballs would perceive light? What I came up with was that light would flutter, black to white, over and over like a light bulb in a dark room, turned on and off. Would you think he would be able to make out anything concrete at all, or would he see white flashes before his eyes? Or maybe multi-color explosions of light. He probably would seem to be in an altogether different world.
All motion around him would come to a complete halt, frozen as it were. If he moves at the speed above, it would seem to be in slow motion; I figure he could move at only about 11 inches per sec. Like being under water, maybe. Since sound travels at a measly mach one, how would he experience that? Some kind of deep bass tone in the background?
I just thought it would be interesting to try and describe this in a novel setting and get you folk's reactions… I saw this videohttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html, and it got me thinking about it. :)
A)His actions and perceptions are cranked up to the point where one second of his “time” is equal to 1.67 nanoseconds of ours (yep, I just basically plucked the number out of the air).
B)The maximum velocity at which he can move is about 100,000 miles per second, roughly half light speed.
So, by his perception, a photon of light would travel about 20 inches a second, eh? How would you think his eyeballs would perceive light? What I came up with was that light would flutter, black to white, over and over like a light bulb in a dark room, turned on and off. Would you think he would be able to make out anything concrete at all, or would he see white flashes before his eyes? Or maybe multi-color explosions of light. He probably would seem to be in an altogether different world.
All motion around him would come to a complete halt, frozen as it were. If he moves at the speed above, it would seem to be in slow motion; I figure he could move at only about 11 inches per sec. Like being under water, maybe. Since sound travels at a measly mach one, how would he experience that? Some kind of deep bass tone in the background?
I just thought it would be interesting to try and describe this in a novel setting and get you folk's reactions… I saw this videohttp://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/trillion-fps-camera-1213.html, and it got me thinking about it. :)