Larry Niven's novels frequently make use of the stasis field concept, which he also popularized.

A technology created by one of their slave races was the stasis field, which makes its contents impervious to harm and provides indefinite suspended animation, which has figured in several Known Space stories.

Archaic ( hyper-aggressive and intractable ) Kzinti were entombed in stasis field shells during the attack and are still beneath the lava, and someday, somebody will have to deal with them.

A Slaver stasis field creates a bubble of space / time separate from the rest of the universe.

An object in stasis is invulnerable to anything occurring outside the field, as well as being preserved indefinitely.

For example, though a high speed impact with the surface of a planet or star may cause no harm to the hull, the occupants will be crushed if they are not protected by additional measures such as a stasis field or a gravity compensating field.

In the Known Space stories, Niven had created a number of technological devices ( GP hull, stasis field, Ringworld material ) which, combined with the " Teela Brown gene ", made it very difficult to construct engaging stories beyond a certain date — the combination of factors made it tricky to produce any kind of creditable threat / problem without complex contrivances.

* The Slaver stasis field, which causes time in the enclosed volume to stand still ; since time has for all intents and purposes ceased for an object in stasis, no harm can come to anything in its field.

The second half of Children's Hour by Jerry Pournelle & S M Stirling features the last of the Thrintun coming out of a stasis field in the Alpha Centauri system.

It is explained that when the last Galactic Emperor was just about to die, he was put under a stasis field of static electricity, keeping his body perpetually alive in a coma.

It was later revealed that he was the source of the un-Aho, which is the reason why Aun's stasis field has no effect on him.

Humorously, she isn't immune to her own stasis fields and can paradoxically trap herself ( and everything around her ) in a perpetual stasis field.

Photon is the only one who is immune to her stasis field and also is the only one who can get her and keep her out of such messes.

Engaging in combat thousands of light years away from Earth, Mandella and his soldiers need to resort to medieval weapons in order to fight inside a " stasis field " which neutralizes all electromagnetic radiation in anything not covered with a protective coating.

) The hulls are advertised as being capable of flying through the upper atmosphere of a star unscathed, although the contents will be cooked ; as a protection against this particular contingency, the Puppeteers also provide a stasis field.

And everything in the galaxy that had evolved a backbone perished, including any Thrintun not protected by a stasis field.

Surviving the crash, the Transformers discovered that the planet was saturated with dangerous levels of energon radiation, and adopted organic-skinned " beast modes " to shield themselves from its effects ; ( if they were in robot mode for a long period of time while in an energon field they would soon go into a case of immediate stasis lock.

The Lying Bastard, the landing vessel in which Nessus, Louis Wu, Teela Brown and Speaker-to-Animals crash-land on the Ringworld, is based on a modified # 2 hull, specifically designed with most of the flight equipment and thrusters on the outside, to minimise the number of breaks in the hull, allowing a Slaver stasis field to be fitted to the inside of the ship, protecting the occupants from any danger ( by freezing them in stasis in the event of attack, for example ).

According to Gould " stasis may emerge as the theory's most important contribution to evolutionary science.

However, the punctuational equilibrium model may still be inferred from both the observation of stasis and examples of rapid and episodic speciation events documented in the fossil record.

Also, fecal stasis and arrest may play a role, as demonstrated by a significantly lower number of bowel movements per week in patients with acute appendicitis compared with healthy controls.

Causes of disturbed blood flow include stagnation of blood flow past the point of injury, or venous stasis which may occur in heart failure or after long periods of sedentary behavior — for example, sitting on a long airplane flight.

Total parenteral nutrition increases the risk of acute cholecystitis due to complete disuse of gastrointestinal tract, which may result in bile stasis in the gallbladder.

The presence of conspecifics may cause a colony to stop growing and begin stasis and reproduction early.

Complications that may arise from mastitis include recurrence, milk stasis and abscess.

Milk stasis is another complication that may arise from mastitis and it occurs when the milk is not completely drained from the breast.

Delayed treatment or inadequate treatment, especially in mastitis related to milk stasis, may lead to the formation of an abscess within the breast tissue.

The color of sha varies according to the severity of the patient's blood stasis — which may correlate with the nature, severity and type of their disorder — appearing from a dark blue-black to a light pink, but is most often a shade of red.

Conditions that may resemble cellulitis include deep vein thrombosis, which can be diagnosed with a compression leg ultrasound, and stasis dermatitis, which is inflammation of the skin from poor blood flow.

Impaired venous drainage from the foot in varicose veins may sequentially result in brown haemosiderin discolouration to the ankle and foot, varicose stasis dermatitis and finally venous ulcers.

Breast engorgement may lead to mastitis either to stasis of milk or through external infection through the nipple.

3. 6. 3 ), the notion of stasis was said to have been introduced, not by Hermagoras of Temnos, but by an earlier writer on rhetoric, either Naucrates of Erythrae ( a student of Isocrates ), or Zopyrus of Clazomenae, and it may have been used already in Aeschines ' speech Against Ctesiphon.

The first noticeable symptom of GI stasis may be that the rabbit suddenly stops eating.

This may lead to lymph stasis ( obstruction of the lymph vessels ) and elephantiasis.

The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.

It would challenge sharply not the cult of the motor car itself but some of its ancillary beliefs and practices -- for instance, the doctrine that the fulfillment of life consists in proceeding from hither to yon, not for any advantage to be gained by arrival but merely to avoid the cardinal sin of stasis, or, as it is generally termed, staying put.

Niven does not make assumptions about its strength, but imagines that small blobs of it could be artificially created under pressure, and their instability overcome by containing them in Slaver stasis fields.

Before Eldredge and Gould alerted their colleagues to the prominence of stasis in the fossil record, most evolutionists considered stasis to be rare or unimportant.

Although Simpson allowed for the existence of stasis in what he called the bradytelic mode, Simpson considered it ( along with rapid evolution ) to be insignificant in the larger scope of evolution.

* Blue Gender ( 1999 – 2000 ): A vicious new disease breaks out forcing Yuji Kaido and other infected humans into cryogenic stasis until a cure can be found.

During the player's five-hundred-year tenure, the player would normally be kept in stasis while his sleeping mind serves as the Central Mentality for the largely self-maintaining systems.

* From 1870 to 1910 all prominent symptoms / causes will be established: explanations at the time included: cold or exhaustion causing reflex spinal cord damage ; electricity caused by friction on compression ; or organ congestion and vascular stasis caused by decompression.

Three million years later, when Lister was brought out of stasis, Rimmer was chosen by Holly to be reactivated as a hologram in order to keep Lister company and prevent him from being driven insane with loneliness.

After disabling the various security features guarding the Cannon's core, Sonic and Knuckles encounter the Biolizard, a prototype of the Ultimate Life Form, and Shadow's " biological " brother, who had been awoken from stasis to ensure that the Emeralds would not be tampered with.

In order to remain in " stasis " for long periods, these animals must build up brown fat reserves and be capable of slowing all body functions.

Shortly afterward, Strong Guy suffered a heart attack and ended up in stasis, and Wolfsbane left to be with her foster mother.

They had planned to be put into stasis during the two year voyage, but several complications occurred and instead they remained awake, along with the crew, Ender, Valentine, Admiral Quincy Morgan ( the captain ), and some other colonists who opted against stasis.

This type of therapy can be used to treat pressure ulcers, diabetic foot wounds, venous stasis ulcers and post surgical wounds.

The only thing that all Downtown music might be said to have in common is that, at least at the time of its original appearance, it was too bizarre – by dint of excessive length, stasis, simplicity, extemporaneity, consonance, noisiness, pop influence, vernacular reference, or other purported infraction – to have been considered " serious " modern music by proponents of " uptown " music performed from the 1960s through the 1980s at the Juilliard School, Columbia University, and Lincoln Center, under the direction of the composers Charles Wuorinen and Harvey Sollberger in concerts by The Group for Contemporary Music, and concerts directed by the French conductor and pianist, Jacques-Louis Monod with the Guild of Composers.

Until series VII, he was presumed to be the last human being alive, due to a radiation leak on the mining ship Red Dwarf which killed the crew while he was in stasis.

In the novel, he deliberately let the cat be discovered so that he would be placed in stasis, thus getting back to Earth in ( subjectively ) no time at all.