The real goal would be to make time stop.
Stopping it wouldn't seem to do much...it would have to be alterations over all four concieved states - combining to the state desired...IE; Time.
If you think about it, it's marked by progression for our senses to understand. So a state of regression ...hrm. "Stopping" is a suspended state...not much to that existence, eghads!
Watch that video for "return to innocence"; and see if it gets your mind working...it's got some good abstract art visuals in it. Not science so much of course.
I like the apple returning to the tree...makes you wonder.
Did it symbolize Netwon & Science (IE gravity)
Or as the name implies (song title)
Adam & Eve (knowledge)
Or a combination?
Do you think it's possible that when Netwon was sitting under the apple tree...he was thinking purely of science...or something more? I guess those are his own personal secrets.
Intriguing though.
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Look at a "cube" as a 4th dimensional object...now imagine a mobius strip. 1D(point)/2D/3D/4D all at the same time, next follow it around as it contorts and moves to a natural motion through all 4 states.
Metaphorically...(not perfectly of course)
Makes me think of an old VCR tape. (The looping, structuring, motion combinations)
1D - it's existence
2D - the tape itself
3D - The containing structure
4D - The motion and ability to stop, pause, rewind, fast forward - etc.
Too bad they had different record speed settings - if life were that simple.
(metaphorically speaking of course!)