timestream
History's flowing river
The timestream is the continuous flow of time conceived as a current or river.
The word appears almost exclusively in science fiction, where characters may travel through, alter, or branch the timestream: Changing the past could disrupt the entire timestream.
It treats time as something with direction and momentum that can be navigated or disturbed.
Ordered display of events
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- continuumUninterrupted, gradual sequence
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- currentDirected flow of charge
flux · epochs · eras · history · sequence · succession · causality · temporality
Large flowing watercourse
- currentDirected flow of charge
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- torrentViolent rushing flow
- cascadeSuccessive downward flow
trickle · undercurrent · eddy · tributary · course · drift · channel · meander
Concurrent divergent historical path
- alternate historyGenre reimagining past outcomes
- temporal paradoxLogical impossibility involving time
- causality loopSelf-perpetuating temporal cycle
- flux capacitorFictional temporal displacement device
wormhole · fourth dimension · temporal rift · bootstrap paradox · grandfather paradox · multiverse · quantum · singularity
Boundless temporal existence
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- aeonImmense stretch of time
- relativityHow observers differ
- universeComplete system or domain
cosmos · existence · permanence · perpetuity · dimension · beginning · end · entropy
timeline
Ordered display of events
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- continuumUninterrupted, gradual sequence
- flowUnbroken forward movement
current · flux · epochs · eras · history · sequence · succession · causality · temporality · anachronism
river
Large flowing watercourse
cascade · trickle · undercurrent · eddy · tributary · course · drift · channel · meander · watershed
parallel timeline
Concurrent divergent historical path
- alternate historyGenre reimagining past outcomes
- temporal paradoxLogical impossibility involving time
- causality loopSelf-perpetuating temporal cycle
flux capacitor · wormhole · fourth dimension · temporal rift · bootstrap paradox · grandfather paradox · multiverse · quantum · singularity · cyberpunk
eternity
Boundless temporal existence
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
- aeonImmense stretch of time
- relativityHow observers differ
universe · cosmos · existence · permanence · perpetuity · dimension · beginning · end · entropy · Big Bang
timestreamtime stop
Halting of duration
timelessness · time freeze · stasis · eternity · suspended animation
timestreampoint in time
Specific temporal location
moment · instant · time slice · snapshot · discontinuity
time, stream, times, timed, timing, timer, timers, timely, untimely