Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-31381501-20171126195039/@comment-24729606-20171130033521

Well frankly I'm not quite sure which would be stronger or more powerful so I will explore both camps. On the one hand time is both a concept we humans (and, presumably at least, other sentient beings terrestrial and/or otherwise) have created to help us understand and grasp the universe and an inherent although not necessarily absolute part of that self same (and, again presumably, of other universes as well). Time is both fluid (in that despite our, admittedly understandable, tendency to regard time as linear, progressional, and eternal time has properties, rules, and yes even laws which if broken or even bent can have cataclysmic consequences) and fragile (in that despite events seeming to be sequential are still dependent on innumerable factors that have, may yet, or may not play out in any one of an infinite number of variegated permutations). At the same time physics (both in conditions approaching the extremes of nature and in more general, though equally under appreciated ways) and, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree, everyday experience tells us that speed has a profound (and still barely understood) impact on our perception and experience of time. For example a person in motion (relate to a stationary observer) will experience time slightly differently than said stationary observer. The greater the difference in speed the greater the difference. These changes become apparent the closer to objects with either enormous mass or enormous gravitational strength. A black is often used for illustrative purposes and I shall do likewise here. The closer one gets to the event horizon (either in a spacecraft or not) the more distorted time and its passage will become relative to someone further away from the event horizon. A day for you (assuming, for the purposes of this post and the sake our theoretical astronaut, that maintaining such proximity could be done) might be anywhere from weeks to centuries or even longer for those back on Earth (and that's not even taking the length of a return journey, assuming one had the means and motivation to do so, into account). Now for embodiments these rules might not matter so much but even so. A speed embodiment might very well be immune to the effects of extreme acceleration. So too an embodiment of time might be unaffected by time dilation or other such laws of phsyics.