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Incredible Benefits of Leaving Your Phone Out of Your Bedroom, Stopping Time, and “The Goblin” Dwarf Planet

Curiosity Weekly

Warner Bros. Discovery

Science

4.6963 Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Learn about what would happen if you could actually stop time, scientifically speaking; the incredible health and wellness benefits of leaving your phone out of your bedroom; and “The Goblin,” a new world beyond Pluto.

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0:00.0

Hi, we've got three of your favorite stories from the past year of Curiosity Daily to help you get smarter in just a few minutes.

0:07.0

I'm Cody Gough.

0:08.0

And I'm Ashley Hamer.

0:09.0

Today, you learn about what would happen if you could actually stop time, scientifically speaking, the incredible benefits of

0:15.4

leaving your phone out of your bedroom, and one of our favorite scientific discoveries of the year,

0:20.5

a new world beyond Pluto. Let's discover some curiosity.

0:24.4

You know how some superheroes and supervillains can stop time?

0:28.0

Well, it turns out the real world effects of stopping time

0:31.0

wouldn't be very practical, but they're a pretty fun way to learn

0:34.3

about physics. Can I just say I loved this article? Yeah me too I loved writing it. I'm

0:40.3

really big in a time-stopping because I played a lot of Mega Man too when I was little.

0:44.0

Flash Man is iconic. Really good music too.

0:48.0

Yeah, actually you helped me with this article because I was like,

0:51.0

what's an example of a time where you stop time and you're like mega man I remember and then time stopped and I thought to myself now is my chance

0:59.1

Anyway, it was good. Before we get into this, let's define what we mean by stopping time.

1:04.0

We're talking about when you stop time for everything but you obviously like in TV

1:08.8

shows or movies where everything is frozen and a character walks around

1:12.3

moving stuff.

1:13.4

Adam Sandler and click, Keanu Reeves in the Matrix, stuff like that.

1:17.4

Well for this to even work, you need to account for every molecule of fluid and

1:21.4

air inside and outside of your body. If you're able to move

1:24.7

around then we have to assume the molecules inside you can move around too.

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