Thought experiment in time and space?

Question

Lets ponder this...

There is a point in space where time has stopped. If you approch this point, time slows down the closer you get to it, all the way to the point where it is stopped.

Can you touch the point? Either way, what would your perception be as you approach?

There are no wrong answers, just a best one :)

Answer 1

Events occurring further from the point than you would seem to speed up (as your time slowed down). I trust that you are proposing that the effect would be inversely proportional to the distance...like gravity. The further back you looked, away from the point, the faster things would be going while events happening between you and the point would be slow-motion. It would be very surreal.

Answer 2

I think the answer is Jam!

Answer 3

This point is called a black hole, or a singularity. You would be ripped apart by the tidal forces of the immense gravity surrounding the point where time stopped. Supposing that you were somehow immune to tidal forces, then you would not particularly notice any difference, as your own frame of reference is always synchronized to itself. The universe around you would appear to be moving in fast-forward though.

Answer 4

Those points exist; they're the event horizons of black holes, as viewed from outside.

If you fall into a black hole and someone watches from far away, they will see your image progressively slow down as time dilation takes hold, and would see your image smear out flat, and then fade away to nothingness. From their reference frame, you'd never reach the event horizon, ever.

From your perspective nothing unusual would happen at all, you'd just fly past the event horizon and get crushed into nothing afterward. Relativity is kind of weird that way.

Answer 5

that's like that paradox where if you are moving towards a stationary object and can only move half the remaining distance at a time, you never reach it.

I don't think you would touch the point.  I would guess your perception would be that you are getting close to it but you would slow too much to get there

Answer 6

You have just described a classic limit equation.  The point can never be reached.  That's junior high math talking.

The only speculative part of your question is what you would experience.

Edit:  Oh, your point was quite clear...how those *bleeps* got on to the tangent of black holes is beyond me.