100x Faster

Between watching too much Star Trek and also my late night insomnia, I was thinking about a story idea for a sci-fi sort of deal. Basically, our society figures out a way to make people glitch over to living in a time frame that is 100x faster than us.

1 hour turns into 100 hours (about 4 days), 1 day turns into 100 days, and so on. The catch to it is that the sun and the days are interpreted the same way as normal. So for them, the sun, instead of being up for twelve hours (roughly here, we all know it's shorter or longer depending on the seasons), for those in the time frame would be 1,200 hours for them (50 days) while night would be another 1,200 hours of life.

This brings with it some great things like sentencing people to long prison sentences, a 10 year sentence, gets knocked out in real time in 36.5 days. Pop them over to the fast time zone, wait a month, pop them back. The family doesn't have to miss them as long, but the time is real to them.

Hunger and food also gets some good returns on it. Think about growing crops 100x faster. Testing and developing things also starts to take a good swing on things because you don't need to wait years to see what will happen, you can do things, when needed 100x faster.

I like the concept, and now I'm trying to figure out a way to make the world work, and make characters in the setting unique enough to make the world more than just a nifty trick of time mechanics. I'm also trying to decide how it works with the real world. Are they temporally enough out of synch that they don't affect people? Like if a person at 100x walks past a normal person, do they get a huge draft of air as they pass? Do the 100x-ers see the normals just as statues? I want to put them out of temporal synch, so that the only thing that they are able to see are temporally stable objects between the two world like buildings, roads, etc.

I'm thinking about making the whole thing be about the first group of people that want to stay in 100x and live their lives in the empty, but faster world. It's a chance to start a new community, new set of rules, the ability to go in the middle of a city and have no one there. Freedom from people, but also the freedom to progress at lightning speed. Not quite sure on all of the details, it's just a thought and I want to put it down so I can focus on what I need to be working on - job applications.