You can't stop the five minutes. You cap what the five minutes gets to take.
What this line claims
A line from the story The Warden (the Interlude, spoken by Joules). A design principle: bound the loss rather than forecast the event. A rule of thumb, not a finding. Fiction: the characters and events are invented.
A line travels without its footnotes, so the claim and its status are on this page. All lines in this thread.