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Sadly, we cannot slow down time for ourselves simply through willpower, no matter how
much
we might want to do so. However, it is misleading to say that we can’t change it at all.
The faster we travel in space, the slower we travel in time. This is one of the guiding
principles of Einstein’s relativity.
This model can express this idea through the power of vectors. As our 2d person tries to
move to their left or their right, their vector of travel changes.
While travelling at a fixed rate, like a sail on a ship catching a breeze, we can only go as
fast as the wind takes us, so the vector coming out from their front must always remain
the same. To travel the fastest through time, our 2D person must orient his vector
completely in
the “future” direction, or upwards. However, if they are to travel any amount in either
direction to their sides, they can
only do so by pointing their vector away from their direction of travel. They have motion
in the x-direction now, but they have done so by reducing their motion
in the z-direction. They are moving through space, but at the cost of moving a little slower
through time.
Taking this to its furthest extreme, our individual has flipped completely on their side and
now
only has motion in the direction of x, and none in the direction of z. They have velocity
in “space”, but not time.
So, I suppose this implies our vector is the speed of causality, or the speed of light.
If this is the speed we’re talking about, then moving at low speeds through space would
not have any noticeable difference in our speed through time.
We’d have to go really fast before we started to notice anything. The vector still mostly
points upwards.
An interesting result of this model is that, from the 2D man’s perspective, nothing has
really changed.
He has his own view of what reality is. For him, the vector coming out of his chest is still
“time”.