How long does time pass in the after life compared to Earth

[shreddinghead]

In the Boo arc Goku says there isn't any time in the afterlife, but it's not clear what that actually means.

Perhaps a figure of speech? I dunno.

[bleed0range]

He makes the comment in question when talking about how Super Saiyan 3 eats up his energy in the living world.

Chapter: 476 (DBZ 282), P9.7
Context: Goku says he’s almost out of time for staying on Earth, and Piccolo says he should have more
Goku: “It’s that ‘Super Saiyan 3’ thing from before…It’s a technique you should only use in the afterlife…In this world, where time exists, it uses too much energy, and you get completely exhausted all at once…”

I'm really not sure what he was trying to say.

I think he's just trying to say "where there is a time limit to how long I can sustain energy, it uses too much."

[Bussani]

That's the sort of thing I have to assume, but it's still a super weird way of wording it.

[Herms]

He seems to be saying that the reason there's a time limit in the first place is because there's time down here, with the implication that time itself doesn't exist up there in the afterlife. Maybe it's a figure of speech, but for what? What's the actual difference between the living world and afterlife that makes using Super Saiyan 3 so much harder in the living world?

It seems to be more than just not needing to worry about sleeping/eating/aging when you're equipped with a fancy dead person body. If that were all, Goku would still have those advantages while visiting the living world for a day, and there wouldn't be any difference for dead him using it up in the afterlife or down in the living world.

[Kaboom]

Maybe whatever infinite vitality that a dead person possesses while in the afterlife is reduced to a finite and relatively small amount while they're visiting the living world. So Super Saiyan 3 wears Goku out by draining away this "temporary afterlife-life," but it's restored and limitless again once he's back in heaven.

I suppose once you're alive, it just drains away all your ki/stamina instead, which would kind of be the same thing, just with slightly different "rules" behind it.

[Gokuden]

I think what Goku was trying to say was that all shopping centers in the afterlife are open 24/7, there's no rush.

[Rocketman]

Transformations consume your life energy. If Goku was unable to revert from Super Saiyan, it would eventually kill him.

Super Saiyan 3, being such an insane transformation, will kill you in just a few minutes. Gotenks dies from it.

In the afterlife, souls are immortal, so the well that SS3 burns never runs dry.

On Earth, Dead Goku got 24 hours of life back - SS3 burns through that.

So, if Goku was made immortal by the Dragonballs, he could use SS3 with no consequence because it can't drain his life.

That's how I see it.