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Shore Power

if your super power is stopping time, can you walk on water?

My friend and I were discussing the best super powers to have and she chose stopping time. I said the power to stop time would be cool in some instances but not in most since you wouldnt have any precognative abilities to predict when time should be stopped and in some instances like a plane crashing into the ocean, you couldnt do anything to save yourself. Whenever you see anyone with the ability to freeze time in movies they also have the ablilty to move things within that time space (like on the trailer for Click when he moves the kid's baseball mitt). My theory is that if you can stop time you cant exert the force to move things within it, only the ability to move around it, like moving at light speed. Or if you can move things then you can't walk on water...ergo you could escape from a plane hatch but not make it back to shore because you'd sink in the ocean. Does anyone else agree or have some sort of quantum theory they could use to answer this question?

If you can walk at all, then you would sink in the water.

If time stopping prevented you from moving anything, then you would not be able to move because you could not get the air molecules to move out of your way.

If stopping time did not prevent you from moving anything, then the same as you being able to push air molecules out of the way as you walked, you would also move water molecules out of the way as you sank.

Movement could also be hampered by a lack of gravity though. Gravity and time are often found linked together, and so, sense the force of gravity might be absent without the force of time, you would not sink in the water, but it would be very difficult for you to move without leaving the ground.

One more thing to think about. If you were able to walk around while time was stopped, all that displaced air would remain displaced until time started again. You would leave a vacuum trail behind you everywhere you went. When time began again, the air rushing back into position would create something like a sonic boom or a thunder clap. This is the same as the little pop you hear when you break a light bulb, but it would be on a massive scale.

What would be interseting in sinking in water when time is stopped is that you would leave a vacuum column in the water above you. You could stand at the bottom of the ocean and look up at that sky above you because the water would not return to its original position.