time-traveler
Past-future visitor
A time-traveler is someone who moves between different points in time, a concept from science fiction rather than reality.
The word appears in stories about visiting the past or future: The time-traveler warned them about events yet to come.
By extension, someone deeply out of step with their era might be called a time-traveler: With his flip phone and encyclopedias, he seemed like a time-traveler from the nineties.
- DeLoreanStainless steel automobile
- flux capacitorFictional temporal displacement device
- Doctor WhoTime-traveling alien series
- H.G. WellsTime Machine author
Marty McFly · quantum leap · Terminator · Bill and Ted · stasis pod · dimensional rift
Hypothetical spacetime tunnel
- multiverseHypothetical set of universes
- alternate realityHypothetical different version of existence
- fourth dimensionTemporal coordinate in spacetime
- relativityHow observers differ
quantum · continuum · vortex · rift · gateway · portal · threshold · displacement
Time travel logical contradiction
- bootstrap paradoxSelf-caused existence loop
- causalityCause-effect connection
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- anachronismHistorical time-placement error
butterfly effect · timeline · fixed-point · continuum · causal loop · paradoxical · nonlinear · disruption
One who investigates unfamiliar regions
- voyagerLong-distance journey taker
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
- wandererRootless, roving person
- seekerOne who looks
quest · odyssey · expedition · journey · discovery · uncharted · destination · roaming
Record of past events
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
- chronicleOrdered historical record
bygone · vintage · archaic · medieval · renaissance · Victorian · classical · ancient
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- utopiaImagined perfect society
- dystopiaImaginary terrible society
singularity · precognition · forecasting · forward-looking · visionary · premonition · foresight · tomorrow
TARDIS
- DeLoreanStainless steel automobile
- flux capacitorFictional temporal displacement device
- Doctor WhoTime-traveling alien series
H.G. Wells · Marty McFly · quantum leap · Terminator · Bill and Ted · stasis pod · dimensional rift
wormhole
Hypothetical spacetime tunnel
- multiverseHypothetical set of universes
- alternate realityHypothetical different version of existence
- fourth dimensionTemporal coordinate in spacetime
relativity · quantum · continuum · vortex · rift · gateway · portal · threshold · displacement · coordinates
grandfather paradox
Time travel logical contradiction
- bootstrap paradoxSelf-caused existence loop
- causalityCause-effect connection
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
anachronism · butterfly effect · timeline · fixed-point · continuum · causal loop · paradoxical · nonlinear · disruption · ripple effect
explorer
One who investigates unfamiliar regions
seeker · quest · odyssey · expedition · journey · discovery · uncharted · destination · roaming · navigator
history
Record of past events
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- ancestorsThose from whom one descends
chronicle · bygone · vintage · archaic · medieval · renaissance · Victorian · classical · ancient · relics
futurism
Study of tomorrow's possibilities
- predictionForecast of coming events
- prophecyForetelling of future events
- utopiaImagined perfect society
dystopia · singularity · precognition · forecasting · forward-looking · visionary · premonition · foresight · tomorrow · posterity