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by stcredzero 4359 days ago
Yes, but for certain extreme instances of bullet time indoors, I suspect the difference in intensity would be significant to the action. It would be like navigating a room at night with just one dim red LED providing light. Or else, people with that superpower would have to set off a flash-bang grenade when using their power.
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Another interesting thought: bullet-time would seem colder. Depending on how things were supposed to be working (let's say your whole body was put into a different relativistic reference frame from everything around you), this would mean that things like air would become liquid/solid and impossible to move through.

Interestingly, this would mean that you could have a civilization of Speedsters living comfortably inside a star.

Another interesting thought: bullet-time would seem colder.

Yes, but then you also have friction and the required speedup of energy consumption and heat generation. Drag and friction increases with the square of velocity, so going ludicrously fast is going to generate ludicrous heat.

Also recall that there's an absolute zero. Basically, there's limited downside and much greater potential upside.

Interestingly, this would mean that you could have a civilization of Speedsters living comfortably inside a star.

Or on a Neutron Star, as in Robert Forward's Starquake. (With the speedup coming from the much greater speed of strong force mediated nuclear reactions.)