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YuuKnow
The Scope
#21 - 2013-02-13 08:44:22 UTC  |  Edited by: YuuKnow
I don't think TiDi really needs a RP explanation. Its a server saving technique.

You could say that its the result of 'cerebral acceleration' that capsuleers kick in to cope with multi-sensory input overload, the result being that time 'feels' slower. A similar experience is felt by RL folks experiencing a sudden major stress event when their adrenaline kicks in. "When I saw my toddler falling it felt like slow motion."

But then you would have to explain why 'cerebral acceleration' isn't on all the time because it would be a tatical advantage to have everything appear to move slower. You could state that their is a small amount of permenant brain damage that ensues so it is only used in the more overloaded of combat situations.

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Stitcher
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#22 - 2013-02-13 10:53:27 UTC
Time dilation is a real effect experienced by objects that begin to move at measurable percentages of light speed. Relativity states that the speed of light appears constant and identical to all observers regardless of their own speed. The only way for this to happen is for each observer's personal time to move at different rates. This effect is known to such a high degree of precision that GPS satellites have to compensate for it or else the GPS on your phone would driff off-course by a few meters every day.

Relativity also treats curved space-time as being the cause of gravity. So, the "warp drives distort space and time" thing raises its own problems because any curvature sufficient to dilate time to 10% of its normal speed would exert a significant gravitational attraction in its own right, which would affect the orbits of planets, potentially flinging them off into deep space, or inserting them into a re-entry orbit with their own star.

So yeah, let's go with it being some secret system in the capsule that accelerates a capsuleer's perception to superhuman response times when things get really hectic.

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