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A consequence of the Rule of Perception: Air, which you can't see, doesn't actually exist. Some applications: * If you stop time, so that everything in the world is frozen in place except you, you can move around easily; you are not held immobile by the air molecules frozen in place around you. (Suffocating is also not a problem.) * If you can travel at Super Speed, you don't have to worry about air resistance or friction. * If you are teleporting somewhere, it's important to arrive in an empty space where you won't be intersecting any solid objects, but you don't have to worry about intersecting the air molecules that are probably swarming through your empty space.

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  • The Air Not There
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  • A consequence of the Rule of Perception: Air, which you can't see, doesn't actually exist. Some applications: * If you stop time, so that everything in the world is frozen in place except you, you can move around easily; you are not held immobile by the air molecules frozen in place around you. (Suffocating is also not a problem.) * If you can travel at Super Speed, you don't have to worry about air resistance or friction. * If you are teleporting somewhere, it's important to arrive in an empty space where you won't be intersecting any solid objects, but you don't have to worry about intersecting the air molecules that are probably swarming through your empty space.
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  • A consequence of the Rule of Perception: Air, which you can't see, doesn't actually exist. Some applications: * If you stop time, so that everything in the world is frozen in place except you, you can move around easily; you are not held immobile by the air molecules frozen in place around you. (Suffocating is also not a problem.) * If you can travel at Super Speed, you don't have to worry about air resistance or friction. * If you are teleporting somewhere, it's important to arrive in an empty space where you won't be intersecting any solid objects, but you don't have to worry about intersecting the air molecules that are probably swarming through your empty space. Related: * Frictionless Reentry: Atmospheric resistance and friction don't exist for spacecraft entering and leaving a planetary atmosphere. * Batman Can Breathe in Space: Since breathing on Earth is possible and air is not there, it should be just as easy to breathe in space when the air is also not there. For characters with superpowers, may be a consequence of Required Secondary Powers. Examples of The Air Not There include: * Frank Herbert's Heretics of Dune * The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything by John D. MacDonald * Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wink of an Eye" * The Wild Wild West episode "The Night of the Burning Diamond" * UFO episode "Timelash" * The Twilight Zone TOS episode "A Kind of Stop Watch" * Clockstoppers has hypertime watches that effectively stop time by making the wearer move really, really fast. The atmosphere never presents any problems. * Momo, from the novel by Michael Ende, can move just fine even when everything else has been frozen in time. * The Outer Limits TOS episode "The Premonition" * Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Next Phase". Geordi and Ro are accidentally phased so that they can pass through solid matter, but breathing (which is inhaling tiny particles of unphased matter) is not an issue. Nor is walking on unphased floors.
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