I'm currently dusting off one of my abandoned WIPs (present-day scenes are all completed; more flashbacks must be added). It's about a girl/woman and her friends from the 1980s. Her father is a scientist and invents, among other things, a "time-skipper", which takes the form of a wristwatch. It allows the wearer to "fast-forward" time at any speed and for any duration. She continues to age at a normal pace compared to the "accelerated" world around her. In other words, if she sets the thing to 1.5x speed, she can skip past one hour and age only forty minutes. The device's digital display will also provide other useful information, such as the disparity between the "old" time and the "new" time (a cumulative total of the amount of time skipped, what the current date "should be" under normal circumstances, and her adjusted "date of birth").
The present-day setting is 2005-2007, but there are flashbacks to the 1980s and 1990s, and the girl really ages only about five years in that time.
Obviously, the girl isn't really fast-forwarding the universe. She's creating some kind of disparity between herself and the rest of the universe (a detachment between her aging and perception and that of everyone and everything else). I need some kind of plausible (or at least semi-plausible) technobabble for her father to spew when he explains how this thing works (as well as a better name than "time-skipper").
The present-day setting is 2005-2007, but there are flashbacks to the 1980s and 1990s, and the girl really ages only about five years in that time.
Obviously, the girl isn't really fast-forwarding the universe. She's creating some kind of disparity between herself and the rest of the universe (a detachment between her aging and perception and that of everyone and everything else). I need some kind of plausible (or at least semi-plausible) technobabble for her father to spew when he explains how this thing works (as well as a better name than "time-skipper").