The age old question?
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If you put someone in stasis or something when they're 18 years old, and they're in stasis for ten years, are they 18 when they wake up, or 28?
That's a good question. I haven't got an answer.
They've technically been alive for 28 years, but they did not experience those years and in most types of fictional "stasis" their body did not age either. Bit of a paradox, there.
That's a good question. I haven't got an answer.
They've technically been alive for 28 years, but they did not experience those years and in most types of fictional "stasis" their body did not age either. Bit of a paradox, there.
My opinion:
You only age if your body ages and/or you are awake/conscious during a year.
Coma = Body ages, so the age rises
Vampire/Immortal = Body doesn't age, but still "lives through"/experiences the year, so the age rises
Crysotasis = Technical no aging, because the body and mind are "on hold", no age rise
- But there's the actuall birthday thats farther away form their age
- In this case the age has often two numbers, the total age and the lived/awake age.
- e.g. 234 (24) <-first number the total age, second number how many of that alive/aging
EDIT: In Rimworld they use the terms Biological Age (true age) and Chronological Age (total age).
You only age if your body ages and/or you are awake/conscious during a year.
Coma = Body ages, so the age rises
Vampire/Immortal = Body doesn't age, but still "lives through"/experiences the year, so the age rises
Crysotasis = Technical no aging, because the body and mind are "on hold", no age rise
- But there's the actuall birthday thats farther away form their age
- In this case the age has often two numbers, the total age and the lived/awake age.
- e.g. 234 (24) <-first number the total age, second number how many of that alive/aging
EDIT: In Rimworld they use the terms Biological Age (true age) and Chronological Age (total age).
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yes thats not really true tho you body would still age but REALLY slowly (atleast for all the xamples i seen where statis was used) so you would still age but super slow
That depents on the sci-fi lore.
You have some with no aging and some with super slow aging.
You mean that the body stay the same but your mind lives 4 times faster?
Like the acarde game "Roy: A Life Well Lived" from Rick and Morty?
Or the Star Trek Deep Space 9 episode, where O'Brian is put in a mind prison to live out his prison sentence in an accelerated time?
In this case I would say: No. While the mind "ages", the body doesn't.
But all this crosses into the territory of "age of body vs age of mind", which is a whole can of worms on it's own.
Oh the age old question....well I'd say both yes and no. Your body is frozen but still ages at a slowed down rate.
Anyway not a scientist so what the hell do I KNOW.
Anyway not a scientist so what the hell do I KNOW.
the way I have always thought of it is 2 separate ages, you have their age let's say 18 then their technical age which if asleep 10 years would be 28.
Sounds like a possible great story for a game. Say maybe your 1st ever puppy love (maybe 4th grade) you have to put in some frozen state or she will die. You devote your life to finding said cure and wouldn't you know it.....shortly after finishing college you develop the cure. Now after all these years you bring her back. Or maybe i am so far behind on sleep that my mind is just misfiring nonsensical garbage
A bit of a reverse Robert Heinlein, door into summer.
The only problem is your first love has the mind and body of a 9 year old and you are now about 21 years old.
But what if her name is Aisha?
age is measured in time (years). and years are measured in revolutions around the sun. your experience during those revolutions around the sun are irrelevant.
so yes they aged in stasis.
so yes they aged in stasis.
no it wouldn't, the cells are frozen solid so there's practically no movement. That would also be why some people have issues with their brain after cryostasis. The game Frozen Past has something to say regarding cryostasis so it's worth checking out.
absolutely
Right, that are the terms they used... I forgot them, so I couldn't include them in my post.
Great answer!!!
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