In the first book of the Artemis Fowl series, Fowl Manor has been placed in a magically induced time-stop, which theoretically traps anyone inside it at the time that it was started. Communication with the outside world is completely cut off, and a side effect on living creatures is that they can't fall asleep if they were awake when the stop started, and vice versa.   A major plot point towards the end of the book is that someone can force themselves out of the time-stop by taking sleeping pills. The change in consciousness essentially spits them out of the past (where time is stopped) and into the present. To people in the time-stop, those who have left seem to have vanished, as evidenced by Artemis's mother disappearing from security footage earlier in the book.  In chapter 9, there a bit of a political power struggle between two fairy officers, which ends with one of them (Acting Commander Cudgeon) being knocked out by a tranq dart. However, he doesn't appear to exit the time stop. Is there any explanation given (either in the books or other supplementary materials) as to why this is the case?
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In Book 1, Artemis et al escaped from the time stop by drugging themselves to sleep.  In the same time stop, Julius Root "accidentally" plugged Briar Cudgeon with a tranquilizer dart.  Cudgeon fell asleep, but did not disappear from the time stop.  Why not?
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In The Waters of Mars, it is shown that a Dalek left Adelaide Brooke unharmed when she was young during the events of The Stolen Earth, because she was a "fixed point in time", according to the words of the Doctor.  However, if they had succeeded in stealing the Earth (and they rather planned on it by taking any action at all) the future that is written for her (death on Mars on the first off-planet base) couldn't ever happen because there would be no more Earth in the solar system (nor humans, etc.), so leaving her unharmed is quite senseless.  Similarly, if she has to die on Mars she needs first to get to it, so when the Daleks spot her and realize the fixed point issue, why didn't they just abandon their whole plan as it has to fail to allow events of The Waters of Mars to happen?
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I was petting my cat when I started musing, how does Mrs. Norris communicate/talk with Mr. Filch, the Caretaker at Hogwarts? Throughout the books it is mentioned that Mrs. Norris helps Filch to patrol the corridors. She acts as a lookout/spy/assistant to Filch, whereby she is often walking the corridors at night looking for law-breakers, and runs off to Mr. Filch to complain whenever she notices anything. She also polices the owls as well, apparently.  Well, is Mrs. Norris a magical cat? Mr. Filch is a Squib, so he does not have particular magical powers, but he still can see ghosts, dementors and thestrals, so does he have some special provisions to understand 'cat talk' or has an ability to talk with cats? 'Catsletoungue'? Would love to know!   Thanks.  Add: Ok even if Mrs. Norris could somehow meow to Mr. Filch to follow him to a particular place, which is understandable, how does Mr. Filch instruct Mrs. Norris where to go on, which corridor to patrol, which door to watch, etc., every single night?  For example.  "Sniff around, my sweet, they may be lurking in a corner."  Filch speaking to Mrs. Norris. (Sorcerer's Stone - Page 157)
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The book takes place in the U.S. northwest (Washington or Oregon). Young people find a portal to another place / time and begin creating a base there. Eventually they bring across parts for a small plane. As I remember, there are no people on the other side and it was a version of their current location but pristine.
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I've been looking for the name of a sci-fi romance book about space travel but haven't been successful so far. I came across it a few years ago, read the plot on its back cover but didn't read the book. It is about two spacecraft pilots, a man and a woman, who travelled at light speed (or maybe FTL, I can't remember) in separate ships. Every time they return to Earth, centuries have passed on Earth because of time dilation. They meet each other for a few times on Earth in different eras, but don't know when, if ever, they will meet again. I don't know how it ends.   If anyone knows which book I'm talking about, could you please tell me the name? Thanks a lot!
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Was the veil created by someone or was it always there in HP? What is its purpose? If one can't communicate with the dead through the veil, then what/how do unspeakables learn from the the veil? (except investigating how does it flutter,I suppose,,,,)
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I'm not sure whether this happens in the books - it's been a while since I've read them - but in the films at least, there's occasions when subject(s) of a given painting venture outside of its frame. In Prisoner of Azkaban, the Fat Lady goes into another painting after being scared off by Sirius Black. In Order of the Phoenix, Filch 'empties' paintings of their subjects, by shaking the frames hard enough. In Deathly Hallows - Part 2, subjects are seen rushing from painting to painting, seemingly 'getting out of the way' as the preparations take place for what is about to be the Battle of Hogwarts.  But how does this work?  Is there any explanation given by JK Rowling inside the canon, or in interviews on this?  Where did the subjects go during Umbridge's time as Headmistress - where did they 'hang out' during this short-lived exile from Hogwarts? Are they in their own alternate 'world' or 'space' and can travel to any adjacent painting and thus theoretically wherever they want to, within the painting 'world'? To find some other home, if kicked out of their (original) portrait?  Thanks.
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Would the 18 months later conversation between Louise and General Shang in Arrival still be the same after Louise having accessed the information from that conversation before she "physically" reaches that point in time? If not, wouldn't that create a paradox?  For the immutable time theory to work, i.e. Louise to be unaware of her calling him, she shouldn't have that information which after the events of the movie she does.   Does this suggest a multiple timeline theory? That would support heptapods trying to change their fate by transcending humans and asking for their help. But at the same time it challenges their ability to be able to perceive the future, as there would be infinite possibilities and also they would have choice to change their fate which the movie plot goes against.
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I just saw Get Out, and there's one thing I don't understand.  Georgina turns out to be controlled by Rose's grandmother; its grandmothers brain in her body. Why then, is Georgina constantly cleaning and being treated like an actual maid.  During the diner scene, we get a glimpse into the kitchen, and we see Georgina holding up a plate in way that suggested that she was made to work and cook. The pose and the fact that she was already standing there holding the plate before Missy enters the kitchen was also quite strange and suggestive.  Also, at the "party" theres a moment that Chris sees Georgina and Missy. For a moment he thinks that Georgina is being involved in the party, but than it turns out the Georgina is just handed empty glasses to take care of.  So this I don't get. If its really grandma inside Georgina, then why is she treated in this way?
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According to , it’s just the Time War that is time locked. So why does Eccelston's Doctor tell Rose:     My whole planet is gone. My people, my family, all gone. Don't you think I want to go back and save them?   Why hasn't he ever gone back to before the war?   All the other Doctors basically see Gallifrey as gone from them, and when you say the Doctor cannot go back on his own timeline, there will have been plenty of time periods he could go to; maybe to a time before they could regenerate, or maybe when Time Lords were using Tardises — as in "The Doctor's Wife" she says to Matt Smith:     I was already a museum piece when I stole you
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I recently watched Interstellar and it was quite an amazing movie. There is something that has been bothering me. At the end, when Cooper is stuck in the time-space shelf created by the other beings (themselves/humans), he communicates with himself and Murph and he himself is the one to call himself in the space and save the earth by communicating the code back to his daughter.  My question is: If the future humans knew about the solution to the problem, why did they or Cooper chose himself to go through all the trouble to go through the space and then communicate with his daughter. Why couldn't they have done it themselves and sent the solution back to Murph themselves from the future.   Let me put it this way: "When Cooper saw himself from the shelf, why did he send himself the co-ordinates again. Why not just give Murph the solution only" Instead of sending himself the co-ordinates, couldn't he just have given Murph the solution. If the people of the future knew the solution (that they knew because that is how they survived) couldn't Cooper have just sent it to Murph from the future instead of going through the loop in space again?
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It states in  that each one is to make the trip to the Threshold,      Since Covu "The Transcended" discovered the gate to The Underverse, called "The Threshold", each successive Lord Marshal has made a pilgrimage to The Underverse. His trip to The Underverse grants him a plethora of greater inhuman powers. All The Lord Marshals are extremely long lived, perhaps even immortal.   In the next section it states that Zhylaw "The Last" finds an artifact, but it does not imply that this artifact shows the way to The Threshold, only its secrets.      Zhylaw "The Last" discovered a great ancient artifact on Helion Prime, within the secrets of The Threshold were written, after studying and destroying the artifact so that nobody could ever find it, he would use it in his great crusade. With this knowledge he could use more of the Soulpower than any other Lord Marshal making him the most powerful Lord Marshal in history.   In  , Riddick does not display any of the powers of a lord Marshal, so it would be safe to assume that he did not go?
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I once asked a question about the time line of an incredibly complex time travel movie on this site and received some incredibly elegant explanations. I'm wondering if you guys can explain Arrival too.   She learns an alien language which allows her to think in such a way that she knows the future. In the future, an important leader tells her at a world convention that he remembers when she called him on his personal number and got his attention by telling him his wifes dying words.  He then proceeds to give her his cell number and tells her his wife's dying words. In the "past", as she "sees" this "memory" of the future conversation, she uses this number to call him and tells him those words.   How does that work? Mind blown. Is there even a logical way to explain this?
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I was riding Shadowmere near Alftand and I accidentally fell into that canyon near the abandoned tower. The fall was enough to kill Shadowmere.   I have done a lot of quests and other things such as fast travel, waiting, and sleeping so I am wondering if that interrupted his respawn. Also if I come back to that point before he respawns, is that bad?   Can Shadowmere just go away and never come back after his death?  I tried waiting in-game for 11 days in Solitude and then returning to Shadowmere's death point, but it did not work.   I do not want to use script commands because I consider that 'cheating' and I don't want to cheat.
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I think I read this story in Omni magazine in the '80s.  It's about two lovers who discover that whenever they're touching each other, time stops for everyone and everything else. Time just stands still outside of their bedroom - like hitting pause on a VCR.  I do remember one small detail: these two people tried to experiment with this ability, and they discovered that they could prepare meals, and that they would stay hot while time was paused. They experimented in other ways, too, though I cannot recall how.  Sometimes my searches turn up a story about two lovers who are time travelers - there is jealousy and some paradoxes - but the story I am thinking of is not a story about time travel, at least not directly.  I've tried googling for it, but the search terms (e.g. "lovers touch time stops") are so non-specific that all I get are false hits. I've tried looking here both using Search and Similar Questions. No joy.
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In , Arthur, Ford, Zaphod, Trillian, and Marvin have just stolen Hotblack Desiato's stunt ship after leaving Milliways and traveled into the past 2 million years before their own time.      ”Trouble is,” said Ford, ”that the one instrument in this whole ship that   is giving any reading is worrying me. If it is what I think it is, and if it’s   saying what I think it’s saying, then we’ve already gone too far back into   the past. Maybe as much as two million years before our own time.”   As they realize that this ship is about to crash into the sun, they discover a teleportion device (their only means of escape) and leave Marvin behind to control it so they can escape despite the fact they have no idea where they might end up. Arthur and Ford end up on the Golgafrincham ship which shortly thereafter crash landed on pre-historic Earth (i.e. roughly 2 million B.C.), and Zaphod and Trillian end up back on The Heart of Gold.      ”I trust you had a pleasant meal?” said Zarniwoop to Zaphod and Trillian   as they rematerialized on the bridge of the starship Heart of Gold and lay   panting on the floor.   As I understand from the beginning of the book, at this point the Heart of Gold had been left with Zarniwoop alone on the ship in Arthur's "own time" (in the 1980's). There doesn't really seem to be any explanation as to why the teleportion device sent Zaphod and Trillian 2 millions years into the future as far as I can tell.   So, am I misinterpreting something to the story and the gang really left The Heart of Gold 2 million years before their own time, or did the teleportion device also act as a time machine when Zaphod and Trillian stepped into it? Or perhaps did Zarniwoop have The Heart of Gold travel back in time?
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There are several times in the books (and movies) where it is either mentioned or depicted that magical people, in moments of stress, are capable of accidentally causing magic to happen. The biggest examples are probably in the first book when Harry makes the glass disappear from the boa's tank at the zoo (it is also mentioned that accidental things have happened before earlier in his childhood), and in the third book when he inflates Aunt Marge.  The thing I've noticed, though, is this only ever seems to happen when they're out in the Muggle world, surrounded by non-magic folk. It is fairly obvious Harry faces some extremely stressful situations while at Hogwarts (the books wouldn't be very exciting otherwise!), and yet throughout all of those situations, Harry (or the other characters for that matter) never once make anything accidental happen like what happened with Aunt Marge. Is there a particular reason for this?   Note: Canon answers would be greatly appreciated.