How does the Crystal Orb work?

[bugfartboy]

Gah. You fail to get my question. Like usual you feel the need to mock me. It would require concentration to slow down a physical attack. And wouldn't that temporal field suffocate the person inside because the air molecules couldn't move fast enough?

[ArtDrake]

Gah. You fail to get my explanation. Like usual you feel the need to needle me. It would require force to slow down a physical attack. And that temporal field wouldn't suffocate the person inside because the air molecules would actually be moving twice the speed of normal ones.

[bugfartboy]

And they would be traveling twice as fast why? I thought the field slowed down things?

[ArtDrake]

No, it speeds stuff up. Sorry I wasn't clear. It makes incoming attacks percievable as 1/2 speed. If I'm moving twice as fast, I think you've started moving half as fast.

[bugfartboy]

But how does that give resistance?

[ArtDrake]

It's difficult to explain.

If your skin's particles are interacting with themselves at twice-normal rate, what happens to the strength of their molecular bonds?