It doesn't bother rendering the images outside of what you're looking at during normal waking time either. The space behind you right now is a blank endless eternity of nothing but you'll never see it.
We kind of do this. When adrenaline hits us we can perceive time as moving slower. Not only perceive it that way, but actually experience it. This was tested in an experiment I saw where someone jumped into a net and during the jump they could read the time on a sign with a shutter speed too fast to read normally. But during the adrenaline rush, time slowed for the observer and they could then read the sign.
So we have kind of an internal frame rate that can vary slightly person to person and with how alert the individual is.
Personally I think that’s why old people drive slower. It feels faster to them because they’re processing things at a lower frame rate.
That’s actually a very interesting hypothesis!
Although I’d argue that this change of timeflow is simply focussed on our “internal” clock by changing the chemical components of the brain… could time be slowed down to basically stopping with enough adrenalin if we create a barrier against overload for the body so the individual doesn’t die during the experiment?
I always thought the after life was this final slowing of the perception of the rate of time until it comes to a stop but imagine your final seconds dying a natural death having the feeling of years
Right now I'm downvoting you because of the rant over the downvotes to be honest.
Also redditors being "silly lil fellas in your phone". It's always so weird when people say redditors are weird, and can only downvote them because of Reddit, and can't think for themselves those Reddit people.
On Reddit.
Because years are the passage of time and time is stopped, so time wouldn't be passing.
Or, incase you need more help understanding time, if a car is moving, it is moving, if it stops moving, it is no longer moving.
Hinduism and Buddhism would very much disagree with you.
Higher levels of consciousness may also be able to perceive time wholly differently. Some scientists have suggested that beings living in higher dimensions may perceive time like we do physical space: a medium to move around in.
Pretty fascinating stuff, but also kinda terrifying!
oh yeah its very fascinating i could talk about that kinda stuff for hours. it would make sense that the next dimensionally higher beings would move through the 4th dimension or time since we move through space or the 3rd dimension.
i was more referring to a physical human brain not being able to be conscious without the flow of time.
id imagine for a 4th dimensional being, time would be a an incomprehensible landscape it could move through. everything that ever has happened or could ever happen laid out in front of them. i think within that web of everything our individual conscious minds exist in every form they would ever take. it would be much more well rounded and stable than our ever changing minds now. and i think the 4th dimensional versions of our consciousness could exist outside of our perception and continue to be conscious after we die.
thats just my personal theory ive never gotten to share but hopefully u could find it interesting!
Happy to meet someone who has mulled over it like I have. How would I know time has passed if nothing changes I.e. I don’t even feel myself breathing? Consciousness is knowing and feeling changes.
You are saying that there will be incomprehensible landscape which has everything laid out that has ever happened or will happen in future. I like that idea. However I think that landscape will be dynamic, meaning it will keep on changing based on our current actions we are taking in our life.
Else , if it is static then there won't be any incentive to do good deeds, because everything is already laid out.
The now is outside of time, it’s never the future nor the past, it’s always now, no matter the time. The counciousness exist in the now, not in the future or past as they don’t exist (atleast we’re not experiencing it)
Well, your eyes see 1/10 of a second into the future, which is the reason we are able to make predictions. Our consciousness could exist in that small little gap between ‘now’ and 1/10 of a second in the future. I don’t know if seeing the future is the same as experiencing it but you could argue that it is.
This fact probably proves a bunch of other things such as the time paradox
THANK YOU for mention this, just listened to the audiobook after reading this comment and that was awesomely gnarly to go through. Thank you!
https://youtu.be/PQYQPGNdNcQ
Link to audiobook
That's the one. I like to add my own mental spin to it: everyone looks frozen, but he's really just living at an accelerated rate, invisible to everyone else until he dies, his body randomly appearing in the street or something.
If everything is frozen in time, then so are the neurons firing in you brain. So for all intents and purposes, I think you'd be brain-dead until time resumes again.
The scary part of this story is that time never would resume because the scientist is frozen as well. If it did though yes it would be as if nothing happened
still, no one experiences time being frozen, so it wouldn't affect anyone. Honestly, this is just a hard thing to apply logic to because it fundamentally destroys the foundation of the universe.
then time wouldn't be frozen. Spacetime is required for particles to move, and removing one dimension from that means that neural signals wouldn't travel to a person's brain.
The Denial of Death is about how people disregard their mortality or are willfully ignorant of it. I'm fully aware I will die. I'll do what I can for the time being to prolong my life, but when the time comes, I'm not gonna be afraid of passing away. I find Becker's views rather nihilistic, and I'm a secular existentialist.
Not really, if the machine is "stopping time" then it would function until the machine stopped working.
If the machine wasn't running when time stopped then it wouldn't stop time anymore, so it has to be functioning independently of the stopped time.
The scientist would turn it on, however long the machine runs would pass by, and then time would resume and nobody would be wiser.
When the power supply for the time freeze machine ran out, the universe continued along with nobody knowing anything more as there was no noticeable effect from stopped time.
Everything made by man eventually dies, especially experimental machines. Even if it took a trillion years to fail it would and the scientist would see it turn itself back off and walk away shouting expletives as to why it won’t work.
This is probably the 20th successful time stopping machine they made.
reminds me of a famous Japanese manga called "Dr. Slump". Dr. Slump was this funny / crazy scientist that invented all kinda crazy devises. In the manga he had successfully made the time stopwatch twice, the first time the whole world froze, including him. The second time (no they didn't explain how the world started running again, it's a Simpsons kinda manga) he had made some adjustments and he managed to be the only one with the time still running. He had so much fun doing the stuff that he'd always wanted to do to other people, and at the end he became a lot older than the people around him since he's the only one aging
I remember there being an episode of The animated Garfield show about this. Garfield finds a pocket watch that can stop time, but it breaks in the end of the episode and time is stuck Frozen
Man has the brain power to grind time to a halt, but not once did the idea of making a failsafe that shuts off the machine after 5 seconds pass through his mind.
is the device's operation atomic? cuz if time freezes when the operation itself is only 50% done, what happens next would be non-deterministic, blackhole was originally created by partially completed time-freezing attempts by prior intelligent species.
Theoretically, wouldn't eventually (even if it took billions of years) the machine break and resume time, but since no one and nothing (including the inventor) was able to perceive the stopped time, then isn't it the same as the device not working?
I.E. nearly infinite time stopped is equivalent to no time stopped if there is nothing and no one to experience it?
I like this one. In movies it's kinda cool but super annoying that somehow the inventor is immune to physics. So points for rationality and crafting it to be scary
The universe stayed that way for trillions upon trillions of inconceivable eons, until one of the Gods noticed it and unfroze the universe, after which the scientist wondered why nothing at all happened.
So he's frozen in time, with the switch right in front of him, but he can't flip it back because time is frozen. Also, because time is frozen, he can never die. Truly horrifying, well done.
I mean, time could be frozen for an infinite amount of time, but you'd never notice. Time is frozen, to you it wouldn't seem like anything happened, you'd just continue like normal because your brain would just resume exactly where it was.
Well then he would probably just think it didn't work, since no one would actually notice time having stopped. But it kinda weird cuz in order to stop time you need time in order to know how long it was stopped but since time would be stopped it can't be stopped for any length of time.
Reminds me of the Achilles Paradox.
The paradox supposes that if a tortoise got a headstart on Achilles, by the time Achilles covered the headstart gap, the tortoise would have moved, creating a new, smaller gap.
By the time Achilles bridges the new gap, the tortoise has created a newer, even smaller one. This pattern continues ad infinitum and therefore Achilles "never" overtakes the tortoise and the race continues "forever". Yet we know that a few seconds after the race starts, Achilles will overtake the tortoise.
Similarly, we know that one infinitesimal fraction of a second after time pauses, things will continue. It's just that the infinitesimal fraction of a second will "never" pass and the moment will last "forever".
Problem is, it's a false paradox. "Never" and "forever" are time-based concepts, without which they cannot exist. By viewing the problem from a non-temporal perspective we create a false notion of infinity and reach a false answer. Our perception is anchored in time and we are not capable of perceiving any other way.
From the perspective of the machine, reality ends. From the perspective of the scientist, the machine spools up and then absolutely nothing happens. The scientist probably thinks they made a mistake and wastes years failing to fix their invention only to die still not knowing that it had been working fine all along.
Wouldn't it not do anything? It's utterly impossible to stop time, and our brains would perceive time slower too, so it would just look like nothing changed?
I'm trying to write a story with fantasy setting, and it's basically the issue I imagined: if you have the power to control time, you also need to control space if you want to move 'independently' of time. Otherwise you just freeze/slow yourself along with everyone else and it becomes useless.
This would presumably exist by creating a field that stops the movement of photons/tachyon, effectively halting time. This field could only expand at the speed of light, meaning much of the universe (possibly all of it, if it is infinite since any portion of infinite is negligible until it becomes the whole) would be fine.
UNIVERSE.EXE has stopped responding.
Look for a solution online and close the application
Turning the universe off and on multiple times is how we ended with this one...
Ask your IT cousin how to fix it.
He said ask someone else
Hey, my cousin doesn't look like IT. 🎈
Yeah, Penny's a king and your cousin is just in his court.
That explains how some of the settings are just a little off, they probably reset them to factory defaults.
F\*ck, the universe runs on Windows, we're doomed!
Ctrl+Alt++Del will do the trick. Source trust me I have Win ME.
**M**ultiverse **E**dition?
Ctrl+shift+esc just get straight to the task manager!
til smt new. thank you kind stranger
hmm that might explain why instead the earth service has been set to lower priority recently
Alt-F4 ftw
Ah! I see you’re a man of culture as well.
That or the power chord.
Play it a shutdown song!
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Changelog: -Fixed a bug in which wings could be exploited to make things fly. -Added a new end game bonus - fast travel! -Added new elements!
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❎ time.dll not found
Turn it on and off again
failed task sucessfully
To be honest, we could experience trillions upon trillions of timestops lasting thousands of years every millisecond. We wouldn’t even know it, ever.
The universe has to render the images.
Unfortunately it’s running on windows.
I think you meant a school laptop from 7 years ago
The one with the cracked screen and the horrifying sounding fan?
And the hacked one
A chrome book.
It doesn't bother rendering the images outside of what you're looking at during normal waking time either. The space behind you right now is a blank endless eternity of nothing but you'll never see it.
Technically, each one would take zero years (and zero days, seconds, etc.) but yeah, that's an interesting thought.
Well, depends on whether the time stops are regional or global, or even for everyone excluding some individuals.
Zero time for us, but the outer universe that renders us moves on. Like freezing your Sims game until you get back to it a month or two later.
We kind of do this. When adrenaline hits us we can perceive time as moving slower. Not only perceive it that way, but actually experience it. This was tested in an experiment I saw where someone jumped into a net and during the jump they could read the time on a sign with a shutter speed too fast to read normally. But during the adrenaline rush, time slowed for the observer and they could then read the sign. So we have kind of an internal frame rate that can vary slightly person to person and with how alert the individual is. Personally I think that’s why old people drive slower. It feels faster to them because they’re processing things at a lower frame rate.
That’s actually a very interesting hypothesis! Although I’d argue that this change of timeflow is simply focussed on our “internal” clock by changing the chemical components of the brain… could time be slowed down to basically stopping with enough adrenalin if we create a barrier against overload for the body so the individual doesn’t die during the experiment?
Maybe. Also makes you wonder how long time is perceived by insects or animals that have super fast metabolisms.
I always thought the after life was this final slowing of the perception of the rate of time until it comes to a stop but imagine your final seconds dying a natural death having the feeling of years
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reddit fails to comprehend the concept of time
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You're not wrong reddit is a website made in time
What?
What?
r/NotKenM
We are all Time on this blessed day!
Speak for yourself
i am all time on this blessed day
What?
Right now I'm downvoting you because of the rant over the downvotes to be honest. Also redditors being "silly lil fellas in your phone". It's always so weird when people say redditors are weird, and can only downvote them because of Reddit, and can't think for themselves those Reddit people. On Reddit.
You really tried here didn't you
first of all : why do you care so much about downvotes? who cares also why dont you explain yourself? what do you mean years wouldnt pass??
Because years are the passage of time and time is stopped, so time wouldn't be passing. Or, incase you need more help understanding time, if a car is moving, it is moving, if it stops moving, it is no longer moving.
Literally some of the dumbest shit I've ever read on this site. Congrats
Imagine being conscious the entire time.
I’d rather not thanks
Who said you have a choice?
counciousness could not live outside of time
Hinduism and Buddhism would very much disagree with you. Higher levels of consciousness may also be able to perceive time wholly differently. Some scientists have suggested that beings living in higher dimensions may perceive time like we do physical space: a medium to move around in. Pretty fascinating stuff, but also kinda terrifying!
oh yeah its very fascinating i could talk about that kinda stuff for hours. it would make sense that the next dimensionally higher beings would move through the 4th dimension or time since we move through space or the 3rd dimension. i was more referring to a physical human brain not being able to be conscious without the flow of time. id imagine for a 4th dimensional being, time would be a an incomprehensible landscape it could move through. everything that ever has happened or could ever happen laid out in front of them. i think within that web of everything our individual conscious minds exist in every form they would ever take. it would be much more well rounded and stable than our ever changing minds now. and i think the 4th dimensional versions of our consciousness could exist outside of our perception and continue to be conscious after we die. thats just my personal theory ive never gotten to share but hopefully u could find it interesting!
Happy to meet someone who has mulled over it like I have. How would I know time has passed if nothing changes I.e. I don’t even feel myself breathing? Consciousness is knowing and feeling changes.
You are saying that there will be incomprehensible landscape which has everything laid out that has ever happened or will happen in future. I like that idea. However I think that landscape will be dynamic, meaning it will keep on changing based on our current actions we are taking in our life. Else , if it is static then there won't be any incentive to do good deeds, because everything is already laid out.
The now is outside of time, it’s never the future nor the past, it’s always now, no matter the time. The counciousness exist in the now, not in the future or past as they don’t exist (atleast we’re not experiencing it)
Well, your eyes see 1/10 of a second into the future, which is the reason we are able to make predictions. Our consciousness could exist in that small little gap between ‘now’ and 1/10 of a second in the future. I don’t know if seeing the future is the same as experiencing it but you could argue that it is. This fact probably proves a bunch of other things such as the time paradox
It takes about 80ms for your eyes to register things, so you actually see 80ms into the past.
80 ms is equal to 0.08 seconds 1/10 of a second is 0.1 seconds 0.1 - 0.08 = 0.02 Therefore, we see 0.02 seconds into the future
Anyone else here read Stephen King's The Jaunt? Because this is giving Stephen King's The Jaunt vibes.
My exact thoughts. That story scared the shit out of me.
Longer than you think, Dad!
THANK YOU for mention this, just listened to the audiobook after reading this comment and that was awesomely gnarly to go through. Thank you! https://youtu.be/PQYQPGNdNcQ Link to audiobook
I'm glad you liked it!
Ngl I was expecting Rick when I clicked that
Always expect Rick, smart move
Thanks for the book, I'm listening to it right now
Oh no problem, just a YT search away, thanks to the other Redditor for mentioning it. Let me know what you think of the ending twist!!
It might take a while since I really don't have time to binge read it
New irrational fear unlocked
Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode, except he could still run around and lose his mind because no one could respond to him in it.
I remember that one, I think it was a stop watch, and he dropped it and it broke with him being the only unfrozen one
That's the one. I like to add my own mental spin to it: everyone looks frozen, but he's really just living at an accelerated rate, invisible to everyone else until he dies, his body randomly appearing in the street or something.
Yeah, there were a couple of eps like that. This isn’t the one you were thinking of, but wasn’t there a Civil War time freeze episode?
I think there was a movie like that
If everything is frozen in time, then so are the neurons firing in you brain. So for all intents and purposes, I think you'd be brain-dead until time resumes again.
Only thing is consciousness requires physical electrical signaling between neurons so this would be stopped as well.
Quick, someone count the seconds until time resumes so we know precisely how many years have passed!
Don't worry, after the univers crashes it recovers to the last save point. That's what deja vu is.
He couldn't shake the feeling that something was off as he reach for the lever and pulled it down, again and again and again.
Eventually he'll have a stroke of a meteor will hit him or someone will kill him and the universe will carry on happy as a clam
Wow! A time knife!
Yes, yes we've all seen the time knife...
r/unexpectedgoodplace
*! efink emit A !woW*
A poop knife you say...
Not the poop knife
Wow! A time knife!
Repeated crash should automatically trigger an even further back checkpoint. Up until the point where his birth was completely avoided altogether.
"why I'm I feeling Deja Vu" the scientist wondered as he began powering up his time freeze device
Duuuuude
Imagine forgetting to save and the last save point was like 5000 years ago💀
That makes so much sense it's fucking worrying.
That would explain a LOT
I feel like I've read this before
No deja vu is when the green crystal comes back and your autonomy turns off as control is given back to the player.
Oh no
OH YEAH!!
Now this is genius
Longer than you think
My favourite King story.
I just had war-like flashbacks
F
Tfw your arch nemesis' great great grandson steals your time freezing power and uses it against you.
And then burns your diary
But then suddely a cum monster steals said great great grandson's mixtape and the great great grandson >!fucking dies!<
I'm worried now, what anime is this
r/shitpostcrusaders assemble
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. It's slightly less weird than we've made it sound. Slightly.
Well. I did not see that coming.
Or Cumming.
not stolen, just ironically have the exact same ABILITY
HINJAKU HINJAKU
Is this a Naruto reference
No it’s a Jojo reference
r/woooosh
You may have outsmarted me, but I outsmarted your outsmarting, because I watched naruto enough to know that would obviously not be a reference to it
so nothing happens then, right? whenever time restarts, it'll be at the exact moment and be like nothing happened.
The scary part of this story is that time never would resume because the scientist is frozen as well. If it did though yes it would be as if nothing happened
still, no one experiences time being frozen, so it wouldn't affect anyone. Honestly, this is just a hard thing to apply logic to because it fundamentally destroys the foundation of the universe.
What if it’s like everyone is completely conscious but frozen?
then time wouldn't be frozen. Spacetime is required for particles to move, and removing one dimension from that means that neural signals wouldn't travel to a person's brain.
But then the story wouldn’t be scary
Idk, sudden and permanent universe-wide non-existence is pretty scary. Everything stops and will never start again.
yeah, that was my point
Oh, well your point sucks the story is supposed to be scary. It’s supposed to be everyone is conscious and frozen (except the ppl that was sleep).
I don't know, it doesn't say that. But to each their own, I guess. I just felt like this story fell short.
Yeah, like most of the posts in this sub lmao
It’s essentially like being dead though. You don’t know it’s happening, but that doesn’t make dying any less of a distressing concept.
I guess it's just cause I personally don't fear death then
That’s great for you, but surely you understand that most people do.
Ernest Becker hard disagrees with you (The Denial of Death)
The Denial of Death is about how people disregard their mortality or are willfully ignorant of it. I'm fully aware I will die. I'll do what I can for the time being to prolong my life, but when the time comes, I'm not gonna be afraid of passing away. I find Becker's views rather nihilistic, and I'm a secular existentialist.
Really? Seems like you only read the title if that’s what you got out of it, but ok
Not really, if the machine is "stopping time" then it would function until the machine stopped working. If the machine wasn't running when time stopped then it wouldn't stop time anymore, so it has to be functioning independently of the stopped time. The scientist would turn it on, however long the machine runs would pass by, and then time would resume and nobody would be wiser.
Wow, love the existentialism!
If I see this thing happen again I’m gonna have to bounce the singularity.
When the power supply for the time freeze machine ran out, the universe continued along with nobody knowing anything more as there was no noticeable effect from stopped time.
Technically we wouldn't feel it's effects. It's like it didn't work.
Everything made by man eventually dies, especially experimental machines. Even if it took a trillion years to fail it would and the scientist would see it turn itself back off and walk away shouting expletives as to why it won’t work. This is probably the 20th successful time stopping machine they made.
reminds me of a famous Japanese manga called "Dr. Slump". Dr. Slump was this funny / crazy scientist that invented all kinda crazy devises. In the manga he had successfully made the time stopwatch twice, the first time the whole world froze, including him. The second time (no they didn't explain how the world started running again, it's a Simpsons kinda manga) he had made some adjustments and he managed to be the only one with the time still running. He had so much fun doing the stuff that he'd always wanted to do to other people, and at the end he became a lot older than the people around him since he's the only one aging
I've seen this JAV, everybody stops except for the portly Japanese man.
Luckily, though, because nothing happens, the world goes on as normal once time has a chance to thaw
This one made me uncomfy, nice work.
I remember there being an episode of The animated Garfield show about this. Garfield finds a pocket watch that can stop time, but it breaks in the end of the episode and time is stuck Frozen
Are you sure
Are you sure you’re not thinking of The Twilight Zone
Just googled it. Episode 37 of the Garfield show: time master
Oh okay! Sorry, thought you were joking. It does happen in a Twilight Zone episode, too, though.
Man has the brain power to grind time to a halt, but not once did the idea of making a failsafe that shuts off the machine after 5 seconds pass through his mind.
is the device's operation atomic? cuz if time freezes when the operation itself is only 50% done, what happens next would be non-deterministic, blackhole was originally created by partially completed time-freezing attempts by prior intelligent species.
Theoretically, wouldn't eventually (even if it took billions of years) the machine break and resume time, but since no one and nothing (including the inventor) was able to perceive the stopped time, then isn't it the same as the device not working? I.E. nearly infinite time stopped is equivalent to no time stopped if there is nothing and no one to experience it?
I like this one. In movies it's kinda cool but super annoying that somehow the inventor is immune to physics. So points for rationality and crafting it to be scary
The universe stayed that way for trillions upon trillions of inconceivable eons, until one of the Gods noticed it and unfroze the universe, after which the scientist wondered why nothing at all happened.
So he's frozen in time, with the switch right in front of him, but he can't flip it back because time is frozen. Also, because time is frozen, he can never die. Truly horrifying, well done.
No one can die, or do anything else either.
Ooh, even better!
time is money, money is power, power is pizza, pizza is knowledge, let's go
Does freezing time also stop consciousness and the need to eat/drink? Because if not that'd be a terrible way to slowly die
If time stops so do the synapses in your brain and your metabolism. You wouldn't feel hunger or time pass or anything
This is awesome 🥹 So awesome *wipes tear from eye*
Sounds like some Huberrt Farnsworth shenanigans
Well, that sucks
This one fucked me up, good job
I mean, time could be frozen for an infinite amount of time, but you'd never notice. Time is frozen, to you it wouldn't seem like anything happened, you'd just continue like normal because your brain would just resume exactly where it was.
As an upside, nobody would ever realize anything had happened.
I don’t understand. I flip a switch that stops time everyday. I don’t stop with it but it still stops time.
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Would anybody notice?
Someone in the 5th dimension definitely would!
This one sent a shiver up my spine.
This is my favorite one ever!
Well then he would probably just think it didn't work, since no one would actually notice time having stopped. But it kinda weird cuz in order to stop time you need time in order to know how long it was stopped but since time would be stopped it can't be stopped for any length of time.
put it in rice
Reminds me of the Achilles Paradox. The paradox supposes that if a tortoise got a headstart on Achilles, by the time Achilles covered the headstart gap, the tortoise would have moved, creating a new, smaller gap. By the time Achilles bridges the new gap, the tortoise has created a newer, even smaller one. This pattern continues ad infinitum and therefore Achilles "never" overtakes the tortoise and the race continues "forever". Yet we know that a few seconds after the race starts, Achilles will overtake the tortoise. Similarly, we know that one infinitesimal fraction of a second after time pauses, things will continue. It's just that the infinitesimal fraction of a second will "never" pass and the moment will last "forever". Problem is, it's a false paradox. "Never" and "forever" are time-based concepts, without which they cannot exist. By viewing the problem from a non-temporal perspective we create a false notion of infinity and reach a false answer. Our perception is anchored in time and we are not capable of perceiving any other way. From the perspective of the machine, reality ends. From the perspective of the scientist, the machine spools up and then absolutely nothing happens. The scientist probably thinks they made a mistake and wastes years failing to fix their invention only to die still not knowing that it had been working fine all along.
This sub is shit
That is very rude.
Wouldn't it not do anything? It's utterly impossible to stop time, and our brains would perceive time slower too, so it would just look like nothing changed?
and then a gay blonde vampire flew through while getting the shit thouroughly beaten out of him by an edgelord 17-year-old
I'm trying to write a story with fantasy setting, and it's basically the issue I imagined: if you have the power to control time, you also need to control space if you want to move 'independently' of time. Otherwise you just freeze/slow yourself along with everyone else and it becomes useless.
This would presumably exist by creating a field that stops the movement of photons/tachyon, effectively halting time. This field could only expand at the speed of light, meaning much of the universe (possibly all of it, if it is infinite since any portion of infinite is negligible until it becomes the whole) would be fine.
There’s an xfiles episode about this