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by bgro 815 days ago
I’ll have to add this to my long list of technical problems when people request a teleporting super power.

Some related problems are the planet’s location in orbit / the solar system’s location relative to the entire universe and how landscape changes over time (trees/towns/mountains/rivers appearing and disappearing).

On another related note, it’s worth noting that the ability to pause time is a universe-ending super weapon. Even if it worked like you intended, you wouldn’t be able to use any senses or breathe without moving.

Similarly, super speed would cause every human movement to have deadly force. You would go insane from the relatively slow action of everything operating at standard speed. TV might be hours per frame instead of frames per second, with incomprehensible audio to match.

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In the book Treason, the author explores that a tad: a character can make a time bubble around them, effectively freezing others. At one point, the character is being choked, freezes time, opens the assailant's hands and ducks out. When the bubble pops, in the frame of reference for the assailant, his hands moved too fast, shattering bone and destroying tissue. Read that decades ago as a kid and it was illuminating on the practical problems of time alteration