There is a spell I think it is on the Etheral Mastery list that causes a person to be taken out of time and space for I think it is a round per level, I could be wrong on the time. I was just wondering just how powerful that spell could be. If you were to be removed from where you were, could you not stay where you were while the remainder of the world/universe continues? The earth spins at almost 1,527 feet per sec, this is from wiki. So one round, figured at 10 secs each would be a shift of almost 3 miles in a round, nice for getting out of the way of something.
But also, even better would be that the earth travels around the sun at almost 18 miles a sec, per wiki, so that would be 180 miles, of course you would probably end up in space, a long way from home, if you were on the back side of the earth, if you were on the front you would go splat inside the molton core.
Now, if this were true, you could use a ranging spell to take from self to touch and really put a hurt on a target.