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- n. uncountable The paradox of time travel that hypothetically occurs when one person goes back to the past and kills their biological grandfather before the latter fathered the traveller's father, thus, by extension, preventing the traveller to ever be conceived in the first place.
- n. countable An instance of the grandfather paradox.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 464 more...
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Blippets
Time~sphere phenomena, manipulations, fluctuations, processes, measurements, and oddities. For use in building my machine.
microfortnight, transilient, instant, flash, breath, blink, beat, momentary, nimesha, truti, second, centisecond and 120 more...
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A Matter Of Time
Favorite time-related words.
vespertine, twilight, gloaming, eftsoon, eventide, dawn, eos, dusk, witching hour, ephemeral, candlemark, autumnal and 122 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Time Travel
Doctor Who, Donnie Darko, The Sticky Finger..., autoinfanticide, grandfather paradox, A Wrinkle in Time, Back to the Future
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plethora Martha: It's like in the films! You step on a butterfly, you change the future of the human race!
The Doctor: (Bemused) I'll tell you what then, don't.... step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you?
Martha: What if.... I dunno! What if I kill my grandfather?!
The Doctor: Are you planning to?
Martha: No.
The Doctor: Well, then.
Doctor Who, The Shakespeare Code (2007). Oct 7, 2008