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Would it be a black hole that you're somehow wrapped in that's causing the space time disturbance? Would it be localized? Or is this something that'd be affecting the entire world?

What would this realistically do to a human?

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[–] cynar@piefed.social 10 points 5 days ago

Superhot is emulating accelerated thinking. It's not that time speeds up as you move, but that your thinking speeds up when you don't.

Plot SPOILERGiven the plot is about an AI slowly hijacking your brain/mind, this makes complete sense.

Physics wise, this is the reverse of what would happen. Hypothetically, if you reduced the speed of light to an extremely low value, the opposite effect would occur. Time would move slower as you moved. Standing still would give maximum apparent time speed, while moving fast would slow your perception. It would also cause significant distortion to your perception, due to length compression. Not to mention how much it would screw up your body (what the hell does blood do, when time is passing slower in your arm than your torso?!?).