Timequake

Quick meaning: Timequake is a noun meaning (science fiction) A disturbance in the flow of time.

Meaning

(science fiction) A disturbance in the flow of time.

Example Sentences

Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?

Or you can have a revisable universe with one timeline (see Hogan's Thrice Upon a Time or Milennium^([sic]) by (I think) Joe Haldeman for the general idea) and in which your actions can "rewrite" the past from that point on. Here, if you shoot your grandfather, you generate a "timequake" in which something ugly happens. Probably you disappear, but there may be other side-effects as the universe works it out, which is, I think, what you are reffering^([sic]) to as the "great expense".

Word Forms

• timequakes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spacequake, antitime, time, quench, traveltime, tachyon.

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