The contents would appear to simply vanish, leaving a vacuum
Gravity and time are so deeply linked that you have imagined a box where time does not proceed inside it, but the box proceeds through time. The contents stay where they are (in time), yet the box moves forwards, so the box would appear to become empty.
Of course, as soon as the box moves forwards it no longer protects the contents, which would then start to experience time and gravity again, just not in the same moment as they used to. It will never catch up with the moment we are in, as that would require it to move faster than C.
I adhere to the theory that our universe was formed from a black hole in a previous universe, and as such 'forwards in time' is 'inwards, away from the event horizon', which would appear infinitely hot and dense, as we observe. Thus, time itself is caused by gravity and so if you eliminate gravity affecting an object, you stop time affecting the object and the universe would move on without it.
This is, of course, impossible.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 20 Jan 2024, 17:13,
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So you imagine the box as a kind of hole
that cancels the speed/velocity/momentum/inertia relative to the universe of objects dropped into it. I can get behind that.
The vanishing part doesn't seem to work for me though. Light experiences no time, yet there's tonnes of the stuff all over the place, it has energetic properties we can measure, it doesn't vanish by virtue of being massless and timeless.
My magic box is indestructible, so how are the objects escaping?
If there's no time in the box, wouldn't objects placed inside be frozen in time (like they're inside a scifi stasis field)?
I think the moment the onions are secured in the box, they stay forever fresh and either 'propel' the box (by virtue of rejecting/exiting the local/universal reference frame) at a decent percentage of C, or bestow antigravity and/or other properties of exotic matter to the box, or both.
Or they explode.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 20 Jan 2024, 17:59,
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No
That's not what I imagine, I imagine time to be the same as proposed by Einstein. In that theory, we all constantly move forwards through time at the speed of light, but this motion is a vector shared by our speed through space, so the faster you move through space, the slower you move through time (to an external observer).
Your question is a category error because in essence it is 'imagine an impossible thing, what would happen in the real world if this impossible thing existed'. My answer is that there would be something akin to an event horizon inside the box, just like happens in the only place we know of in the real world where time stops, at the edge of a black hole. The contents would vanish and never interact with our universe again.
Your 'magic box' is only sealed in 3 dimensions, there are quite a few more than that. There is also more than one way to conceptualise time stopping. One is how you imagine it, where you continue to move forwards through time at the speed of light, but your internal clock stops. The other way is that your internal clock does not stop, but you do not move forwards through time while the rest of the universe does.
Imagine it this way, you have created a volume where anything placed in it remains at the point in time and space where+when it was placed inside. When we move on, and it is now 1 second later, where is the onion? It exists 1 second ago, and we cannot see it, to us, it simply vanishes.
Mind your fingers putting the onion in.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 21 Jan 2024, 10:47,
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