English word senses marked with topical category "Time travel"

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Total 58 word senses

• Back to the Future Day (Proper name) The date October 21, 2015, regarded as commemorative of the movie Back to the Future Part II, in which the main characters use a time machine to travel to this date from the year 1985.
• CTC (Noun) Initialism of Centralized (or Centralised) Traffic Control.
• EPR telephone (Noun) A method of transmission of information non-locally, allowing FTL communication and back-in-time communication, through application of Steven Weinberg's proposed non-linear fields in quantum physics on entangled particles, accessing hidden variables of the Schrödinger equation.
• Eloi (Proper name) A male given name.
• Novikov self-consistency principle (Proper name) A conjecture asserting that it is impossible to create paradoxes by time travel because the past cannot be changed.
• Roman ring (Noun) A configuration of wormholes where for each individual wormhole the time difference across its mouths is such that it may not allow a closed timelike curve.
• TARDIS (Proper name) The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.
• TARDIS (Noun) Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).
• Tipler cylinder (Noun) A hypothetical massive, infinitely long cylinder spinning along its longitudinal axis, enabling time travel.
• Tipler machine (Noun) Synonym of Tipler cylinder
• Tipler time machine (Noun) Synonym of Tipler cylinder
• antitelephone (Noun) A hypothetical device, used in thought experiments on causality, that could be used to send signals into one's own past.
• autoinfanticide (Noun) The act of traveling back in time to the past and killing oneself as a baby.
• backwards time machine (Noun) A time machine that can only allow travel to the past, but cannot also allow travel to the future.
• bootstrap paradox (Noun) A time travel paradox in which the consequences of an event in the future travel back in time and cause an event in the past or present, which in turn is among the causes of the first event, forming a causal loop in which each event is caused by the other.
• butterfly effect (Noun) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.
• causality (Noun) The agency of a cause; the action or power of a cause, in producing its effect.
• causality (Noun) The relationship between something that happens or exists and the thing that causes it; the cause and consequence relationship.
• chronoclasm (Noun) An interference with the course of history caused by time travel.
• chronokinesis (Noun) The ability to manipulate the flow of time.
• chrononaut (Noun) A time-traveller.
• chronoportation (Noun) A technique to send one's mind to another time.
• chronoscope (Noun) A device able to directly view other times, past or future.
• chronovisor (Noun) A hypothetical machine that is able to see past and future events.
• closed time loop (Noun) A chain of events in which someone or something time travels to the past as a means to fulfill their role in the history exactly as it already happened, thus implying impossibility to change the past.
• closed timelike curve (Noun) A worldline that returns to its starting point.
• flux capacitor (Noun) A fictional instrument required to operate a time machine, consisting of a rectangular-shaped compartment with three flashing Geissler-style tubes arranged in a "Y" configuration.
• forward time machine (Noun) A time machine that can only allow travel to the future, but cannot also allow travel to the past.
• future history (Noun) A postulated history of the future that is used by authors in the subgenre of science fiction to construct a common background for fiction.
• grandfather paradox (Noun) The paradox of time travel in which inconsistencies emerge through changing the past.
• lost in time (Adjective) Lost during time travel.
• metatime (Noun) A hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.
• retrocausal (Adjective) Of or pertaining to retrocausality.
• retrocausality (Noun) Any of several hypothetical phenomena that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause.
• retrocausally (Adverb) By means of, or in terms of, retrocausality.
• time barrier (Noun) A barrier or obstacle preventing time travel, especially one resulting from technological limitations.
• time cop (Noun) A member of the time police.
• time crime (Noun) The violation of time travel law (especially referring to an attempt to change the past).
• time loop (Noun) A hypothetical or fictional instance of characters living through a set period of time repeatedly until the loop can be broken.
• time machine (Noun) A hypothetical device used to travel into the past or the future.
• time patrol (Noun) Synonym of time police (“an organization which regulates time travel”).
• time police (Noun) An organization which regulates time travel, especially with the purpose of preventing the past from being changed.
• time travel (Noun) Travel to the past or to the future, typically by means of a time machine or a wormhole.
• time tunnel (Noun) A passageway enabling time travel.
• time warp (Noun) A hypothetical discontinuity in the flow of time that would uncausally move events from one time period to another.
• time warp (Noun) Acceleration of in-game time relative to real-world time.
• time warp (Verb) To travel through time in such a manner.
• time warp (Verb) To perform the time warp dance.
• time-travel (Noun) Alternative form of time travel
• time-traveller (Noun) One who engages in time travel.
• timegate (Noun) A portal enabling time travel.
• timelord (Noun) A person who has mastered time travel.
• timescape (Noun) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.
• timeship (Noun) A vehicle like a spaceship that travels through time.
• timeslip (Noun) A phenomenon that causes unexpected time travel.
• transtemporal (Adjective) Transcending time; relating to time travel or to the influence or communication between one time and another.
• wayback machine (Noun) A time machine or other means of revisiting information about the past.
• wormhole (Noun) A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel.

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