Temporal Phasing
The Fifth Dimension
The effects of fifth-dimensional temporal phasing were first
theorized by Albert Einstein in the early Twentieth Century. At that
time, the effects were known as "time dilation," and the only known
way to achieve fifth-dimensional displacement was through
relativistic acceleration, via either change in linear velocity or
gravitational field.
Einstein's "twin paradox" demonstrated how natural temporal
phasing due to acceleration could cause two people to age at
different rates. It was not until the early Twenty-second Century
that researchers at Chronos Technologies were able to induce an
artificial acceleration field within a specified volume, allowing
them not only to slow down local time, but also to speed it up.
The uses of fifth-dimensional technology to speed up time in a
particular location and to slow it down are known respectively as
temporal acceleration and temporal stasis.
Both processes utilize similar fifth-dimensional phasing
technology. In order to artificially phase an object out of the
normal flow of time, it must be saturated by a phased antigraviton
field, whose frequency and polarity determine the extent and
direction of fifth-dimensional displacement, and whose saturation
density determines the spherical radius of the effect from the
antigraviton field generator. (See
Applications
of Nine-dimensional Theory for more information on
fifth-dimensional displacement.)
By the mid-Twenty-second Century, the technologies of
microcircuitry, nanotechnology, and new power storage techniques
have allowed temporal phasing technology to become very compact and
portable. It may someday be incorporated into household appliances
and industrial applications, pending government approval.
Temporal phasing does not remove an object from the physical
(four-dimensional) Universe; rather, it changes the relative time
flow around the object. All outside physical forces still affect the
phased object, and it can still interact with the outside world, but
time-dependent properties -- such as gravitational acceleration,
momentum, inertia, force, and frequency -- are distorted to the
degree of relative fifth-dimensional displacement. (See below for
descriptions of physical properties associated with temporal
displacement.) Einstein was correct in his prediction that the
velocity of light remains constant regardless of fifth-dimensional
displacement.
Temporal Acceleration
Shifting an object outward through the fifth dimension causes the
object to experience more time in each temporal cycle. This has the
practical effect of speeding up the aging process of the object.
To understand the effects of such temporal acceleration, assume
that a person (call him Mr. Swift) has a fifth-dimensional temporal
accelerator that can be carried on the body, with an effect radius
of two meters and an acceleration ratio of thirty-to-one compared
with the rest of the world. That would mean that his wrist watch
would record the passage of thirty minutes for every one minute
recorded by a wall clock across the room.
But the speed of clocks is the least noticeable of the temporal
acceleration effects. As soon as Mr. Swift activates the device, he
will notice a sudden shift in gravitational acceleration, as if he
were on the Moon or an asteroid with light gravity. This is because,
with average gravitational acceleration at Earth's surface, an
object dropped from a height of ten meters will take about one
second to hit the floor; but with the temporal acceleration constant
of Mr. Swift's frame of reference, he will watch that same object
fall for over thirty seconds. The time it takes the object to fall
is the same whether it is dropped inside Mr. Swift's acceleration
field or outside it.
To illustrate this point, say that Mr. Swift and a person across
the room both drop a metal ball from the same height at the same
time. Even though Mr. Swift's ball is falling within his temporal
acceleration field, it will still hit the floor at the same time as
the other person's ball. This is because gravitational acceleration
remains constant across all fifth-dimensional reference frames.
Likewise, the speed of light remains constant regardless of time
flow. Light passing through an accelerated region will reach its
destination in the same amount of time, but its wavelengths will
become more spread-out, making the light appear more red when it
enters an accelerated region; light generated from inside a
temporally accelerated region will be blue-shifted upon leaving the
acceleration field. Also, only one minute worth of light energy from
the outside will reach Mr. Swift for every thirty minutes he
experiences, so the world will seem to be much darker, as well as
red-shifted, to Mr. Swift's perception.
However, light and gravity are not unique in their constancy
across the fifth dimension. Inertia and momentum are also constant
across fifth-dimensional reference frames. Say, for example, that
Mr. Swift and his counterpart across the room both fired pellet guns
at a target from the same distance. The pellet fired by Mr. Swift
would have a velocity thirty times greater than the other person's
when it is fired. However, when the pellet exits the temporal
acceleration field, it will slow down to the same velocity as the
other pellet. This is due to the conservation of momentum across the
fifth dimension.
Momentum of matter remains constant across time frames because,
while an accelerated object's velocity may increase, its inertial
mass will decrease proportionally. Therefore, the pellet will move
thirty times faster, but with one-thirtieth the mass, so its total
kinetic energy is equal to the other pellet's on impact. This
conservation of momentum causes a moving object to become more
massive, and to slow in its velocity, upon leaving the accelerated
environment.
Due to these unique physical properties of temporally accelerated
environments, Mr. Swift will be able to run faster than other
people, but may experience vertigo, since his inertial mass is
thirty times less; and since objects take thirty times longer to
fall, he could jump very high off the ground, or fall in slow motion
from a great height, but be able to land safely on his feet -- much
like running on the Moon.
It is important to note, though, that temporal acceleration does
not give Mr. Swift any physical advantage over others, since his
inertia is lessened, so his momentum is the same as anyone else's.
However, his speed, reflexes, and thought processes will be thirty
times faster, giving him a strategic mental advantage over others.
To illustrate: If Mr. Swift and his non-accelerated counterpart
both were striking identical glass windows with identical sticks,
Mr. Swift would swing his stick thirty times faster, but the stick
would be thirty times less massive, so it would not strike the
window any harder than the other person's. However, Mr. Swift would
be able to break his window first, because he could hit it thirty
times in the same time it would take the other person to swing his
stick once.
Due to the lessened gravity and inertial mass, it is not advised
that people remain in temporal acceleration fields for long periods
of time, since their muscles and bones will start to atrophy as if
they were in outer space or on the Moon.
Temporal Stasis
Shifting an object inward through the fifth dimension causes the
object to experience less time in each temporal cycle. This has the
practical effect of slowing down the aging process of the object.
To understand the effects of such temporal stasis, assume that a
person (call her Ms. Still) has a fifth-dimensional temporal stasis
field generator with an effect radius of two meters and a temporal
dilation ratio of one-to-thirty compared with the rest of the world.
That would mean that while within the stasis field her wrist watch
would record the passage of only one minute for every thirty minutes
recorded by a wall clock across the room.
The effects of temporal stasis are exactly opposite those of
temporal acceleration as discussed above. Ms. Still's inertial mass
will increase thirty times, making it very difficult to start or
stop moving, or to change direction. Also, from her slowed
perception, objects would seem to fall thirty times faster; an
object that normally takes one second to fall to the ground would
take only one-thirtieth of a second to fall according to her watch.
Likewise, light entering the stasis field would shorten in
wavelength, becoming blue-shifted, so everything on the outside will
seem to have a bluish tint in Ms. Still's perception. But while she
experiences only one minute of time, thirty minutes worth of light
energy will have entered her stasis field from the outside, making
everything on the outside seem much brighter to her.
Due to the increase in her perception of gravity, Ms. Still would
not be able to walk while in the stasis field; in fact, she might be
crushed by the increased gravity even while lying on a bed. It is
therefore necessary for people and other fragile objects within
strong stasis fields to be suspended in a tank of liquid or gel, so
that they are not crushed by gravity. These tanks, known a
tempostats, would also shield them from the thirty times more light
and radiation from the outside to which they would otherwise be
exposed.
Despite these harmful physical effects, in a properly constructed
tempostat, with an oxygen supply, a person could survive in temporal
stasis with a ratio of up to one-to-one thousand (i.e., the person
in stasis would age one year for every thousand years that passed in
the outside world). Solid inanimate objects can be subjected to even
stronger temporal stasis fields, aging just one year for every
hundred thousand or even million years that passed in the outside
world.
Aside from its preservative effects, temporal stasis technology
has a variety of other uses. A tempostatic grenade with an effect
radius of three or four meters could incapacitate an enemy on the
battlefield, both by slowing him down and by increasing his relative
gravity and inertial mass.
See
Navigating Parallel Timelines for information about using
fifth-dimensional technology to create differential time flows
between two timelines.
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