If you were out of phase, wouldn't you die?

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Mon May 12, 2008 5:52 am

Autoerotic asphyxiation is the "pleasant" way to go, as opposed to rapid decompression. In the Tom Clancy novel Without Remorse, John Kelly, the main character, is a former Navy SEaL, and has a decompression chamber in his garage which he uses to torture a bad guy for information. He increased the pressure gradually until his body became used to the pressure, then would rapidly decompress until he screamed and gave up the information asked. The bad guy eventually dies from an embolism, or blockage of blood to the brain. The blockage was a piece of BONE MARROW!

Post by **Teaos** » Mon May 12, 2008 12:00 pm

Autoerotic asphyxiation is the "pleasant" way to go,

It has erotic in its name, of coarse its a nice way to die. It sounds like being lap danced to death.

Thorin · Post by **Thorin** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:14 am

Just wanted to add this to the discussion.

Being out of phase means you are unable to breathe air, and as the air does nothing to provide pressure to the outside (or inside) of your body, it would act precisely as you were in a vacuum - being inside or outside of the ship would be pretty irrelevant - as either way the air wouldn't be touching you. Literally.

Post by **Teaos** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:20 am

So it is totally impossible in about 5 different ways.

Duskofdead · Post by **Duskofdead** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:36 am

Okay so if a technology takes you out of phase, the following would happen:

1) You'd be slowly spinning out of control, right through solid objects, the ground, the floor, other people, etc. And it would be really dark.
2) You'd be unable to see any of these objects, touch, smell, or in any way interact with them.
3) You'd asphyxiate and decompress.
4) You would die and become a gooey fleshy corpse floating forever through nothing and no one would ever know you were there.

Does that about sum it up?

Post by **Teaos** » Sat May 17, 2008 3:51 am

Pretty much.

If matter cannot interact wouldnt that also mean the atoms in your body couldnt bond?

KuvahMagh · Post by **KuvahMagh** » Sat May 17, 2008 5:16 am

Presumably they would all be phased together so they would still work, in theory of course.

Post by **Teaos** » Sat May 17, 2008 6:23 am

How could they be phased tgehter but not with outside stuff. If that was true could they make it so you where in phase with air and your eyes were in phase with photons?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:33 pm

So now your entire body falls apart in the literal sense, too. Lovely.

KuvahMagh · Post by **KuvahMagh** » Sat May 17, 2008 12:44 pm

Hopefully the writers never use this idea again.

stitch626 · Post by **stitch626** » Sun May 18, 2008 8:18 pm

Another problem:
Gravitons (the theoretical particle of gravity) would also not be in phase with you, so you wouldn't feel any gravity. So you wouldn't fall through the floor... you'd fly through the walls and out into space.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon May 19, 2008 4:14 am

No problem - effectively, you'd be in a vacuum already.

KuvahMagh · Post by **KuvahMagh** » Mon May 19, 2008 12:29 pm

You know, when they cooked this idea up in the first place I bet they thought it would be great...

Post by **Teaos** » Mon May 19, 2008 1:05 pm

I bet they didnt count on us...

Post by **Mikey** » Mon May 19, 2008 3:24 pm

Teaos wrote:I bet they didnt count on us...

What? They weren't counting on an audience that wasn't brain-dead?