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Does everything really "freeze" when time stops?
Question Date: 2007-09-02
Answer 1:

The concept of time stopping implies that you are observing an infinitely short period in time. Thus, everything would "freeze" in that instant because nothing can physically change in infinitely short time. However, only an observer for whom time is not frozen would be able to detect such a situation. All observers in the frozen time frame would only be able to detect changes in time, which requires that time be moving forward.



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