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Soon afterward, the time traveler was identified as professional spammer Robert J. Todino (known as "Robby"). Todino's attempts to travel in time were a serious belief, and while he believed he was "perfectly mentally stable," his father was concerned that those replying to his emails had been preying on Todino's psychological problems.
A time slip is a plot device in fantasy and science fiction in which a person, or group of people, seem to travel through time by unknown means. [12] [13] The idea of a time slip has been used in 19th century fantasy, an early example being Washington Irving's 1819 Rip Van Winkle, where the mechanism of time travel is an extraordinarily long sleep. [14]
A particular kind of effortless accidental travel is finding oneself in some other place or time occupying someone's else mind, via body swap (mind swap) or mind/body sharing. [3] Carsac wrote the story with the trick of this type as well: in Terre en fuite (1960) a scientist hit by lightning suddenly becomes a genius and before his death he ...
Elsewhere in the Season 2 premiere, Loki introduced us to way more time travel jargon than just “time slipping,” as Loki, Mobius and TVA tech guru Ouroboros (aka O.B., played by recent Oscar ...
Time is a slippery thing, as profound thinkers like physicist Albert Einstein and, well, fictional time traveler Dr. Who plainly understood. Scientists made that point anew on Monday in a study ...
Time slip, plot device used in fiction in which a person can travel in time; Time slip recording, a feature of some digital video recorders allowing earlier parts of a program to be viewed while later parts are being recorded; Timeslip, in drag racing, a record of the vehicle's elapsed time, top speed, and the driver's reaction time
I have added a {} tag for the time being. Thinboy00 02:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC) "A time slip (also called a timeslip) is an alleged paranormal phenomenon in which a person, or group of people, travel in time, without the aid of a time machine. As with all paranormal phenomena, the objective reality of such experiences is disputed."
"The Flipside of Dominick Hide" is a British television play first transmitted on BBC1 on 9 December 1980 as part of the Play for Today series. Peter Firth stars in the title role as a time traveller from Earth's future who illegally visits the London of 1980 to search for an 'ancestor' and finds a world very different from the one he left behind.