timequake

Definitions

A disturbance in the flow of time.

Examples

“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".”

“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?”

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