What if Groundhog Day was a Groundhog Second?

I've been thinking about this for too long so I made a video about it.

[GameJam]

The thing is, since nobody else keeps their memory in it except the selected person, we literally COULD be in a groundhog minute every minute of our lives, but we would never know it as the passage of time is constant and smooth from our perspectives. It's entirely possible that some poor fool has been trapped in this minute for centuries, driven to the point of insanity, but to everyone else, it looks like they just had an unprompted mental breakdown over the course of 60 seconds.

[luzcro]

Imagine if every person in the world had their own "Groundhog Day". Everyone knows they exist but the only Groundhog day you remember is your own. Like imagine starting the loop in bar and you tell the guy sitting next to you:

"I think I'm having a Groundhog Day"
"Good for you, man. Hope you work stuff out. If it gets too much, and you try to off yourself, do it quick. You do NOT want to spend the whole day in pain."

[megaing]

Don't forget: The Moral of Groundhog Day is that if you torture someone for long enough, you can achieve whatever personality change you want.

[rickyrickster]

i mean living your worst life in a time loop isn’t like infinite torture if you’re unaware of it

[krausr]

We once considered a groundhog second and decided he would eventually learn how to jab a finger into his brain just right to feel different sensations

[SameytheHedgie]

I feel like Bill Murray would end up going down the route of Kars from Jojo's.

Being unable to do anything for billions, maybe even trillions of years trapped within that singular second, he'd eventually stop thinking.

[Bobobunga]

"there's absolutely no way to detect a groundhog day scenario [...] so how do we know it's NOT happening right now?" Interesting you say that since that thought process is kind of intentional. The higher ups at the film studio wanted a scene where a gypsy cursed Bill Murray's character causing the time loop. Obviously this is stupid and the writers protested, so what they did was they purposely scheduled it to be the last thing they filmed so they would purposefully miss the deadline and not have to put the scene in. This allowed the movie to have a wider variety of interpretations, like the one you had just now.

[physics_hacker]

There was this scifi short film I watched where someone can set a "respawn time" with this device, and if they die, they're sent back to the moment they set. For years a guy tries to do one particular task, and when he fails every time, he kills himself to be sent back to before so he can try again. Eventually he has a talk with someone and decides to move on and go do something else. As he leaves the building to go somewhere else, he accidentally sets the spawn time right before he steps onto the street and instantly gets hit by a bus. He's now in an infinite time loop of being hit by a bus because he had momentum when the return time was set, he doesn't have time to reverse course in any loop, . so there's no way out. He's going to experience the agony of being hit by a bus for all of eternity, conscious but no way out. To me it's a very horrifying concept that while simple (trapped in a death loop too short to escape from) I've never seen implemented anywhere else. It's been stuck in my mind ever since.

[ethangraff]

The fact that this video doesn't loop is a missed opportunity

[blubangsalt]

this is why I have codes, if I ever meet someone stuck in a time loop and they can PROVE it to me, I give them my passcode so they can tell it to me next loop and they don't have to spend precious time proving it to me again, it's a code that no one else knows, so I know it'll be real when I hear someone say it

[adiveler]

Now imagine a similar scenario, but the sun explodes every 22 minutes!

[wyn]

if the start of groundhog day is where this groundhog planck time begins, then it would simply be a question of if bill murray's on his own faced with infinity, could he figure out what lesson he needs to learn on his own. Would being faced with endless darkness for his eyes do not have the time to open and constant silence for the alarm has just 1 picosecond left before it starts to ring lead his thoughts astray as he contemplates a hatred for whatever god has cursed him out of nowhere, would he give up on finding an answer to his wrongdoings and instead find an end by ceasing all thought and waiting out both eternity and no time whatsoever, if he were to do this would he escape the groundhog day loop by simply waiting out infinity?
But most importantly of all, would he even be stuck in the loop? the human brain has a speed limit eventually, right? If he cannot think during that moment then it doesn't matter how many 0s he remembers because it's all nothing, he is just another NPC in the world unaware of the time loop whose day moves on while the meat that should inhabit bill murray is sealed for eternity. Or would this mean he simply experiences instant death? Or does everyone's future simply cease when groundhog day ends, therefore the universe just suddenly ceases to be

[Gumper]

The movie "The Endless" has a scene like this. Some poor dude is stuck in a 5 second repeating loop that always ends with him being butchered by an invisible monster, and from the way he's dressed it seems like he's been stuck in the loop for hundreds of years

[JuicyBurger]

2:28 a plank second is so fast that our brains can’t pick it up. We process at 0.14 or maybe it was 0.24 milliseconds. And a plank second is so much smaller. To a point where the universe being locked in a Plank Second is just nothing. Just the universe at a constant perfect standstill.

[andrefasching]

Nice video. It allowed me to define this day.

I spent today buying some groceries and trying out a new recipy. My dad wrote me a message stating his respect for how far i made it at this point in my life.

While being far from fulfilled or the person i want to be, i would gladly accept it if this day would become groundhog day.

Have a good day yourself.

[Veralos]

I would have ice cream, but after watching this I'm paranoid of getting trapped in a groundhog second of eternal brain freeze.

[sskpsp]

Send beams of light at some object in space at fixed intervals, but before this, set up the receiver. If you start receiving pings before you send the first, then it means your pocket of space is stuck in a time loop. If it's the entire universe, you're screwed tho

[NeilHaskins]

I've had a similar thought myself. Not a timeloop, but just the fact that you need to take it on faith that the past and future actually exist. You can't know from a purely empirical point whether what you think happened a half second ago actually did, or if that's just the thought you're thinking at this, the only moment.

[sarbe]

I think a groundhog planck-time would just look like time has frozen to Bill Murray. Not entirely, but because it is so little time in each loop that basically nothing can happen, and this infinitely short amount of time continues to repeat potentially forever, it's just an endless amount of no more change from the perspective of an observer who is physically bound by time but who's consciousness remains unaffected.

[waltonsimons]

I'm not sure how long it takes for the human brain to form a memory. But I do know it takes around 13 milliseconds for the brain to perceive a visual stimulus, so the amount of time it takes to remember that stimulus must be greater than 13 milliseconds. So the "good" news is that a Groundhog Planck Length-- or any Groundhog Time Less Than 13 Milliseconds-- is too short for a memory to form. Below 13 milliseconds, there are no Bill Murrays in the time loop.