Questions tagged [time]
This tag applies to question that deal with how long a certain event/process took.
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Book where a gateway in the Amazon leads to different times
I think this book was written by a South African author.
It's set in the Amazon, with a gateway to different ages in time. Also time was either slowing or getting faster.
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How long are the events of Half-Life 2 in-universe?
So I know the time it takes to play Half-Life 2 (15 hours), but it seems like the entirety of Half-Life 2 + Episode 1 and Episode 2 is only a week long. Gordon arrives, meets up with his old Black ...
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How long before Order 66 does Dark Disciple take place?
It is established that the book Dark Disciple takes place in 19 BBY, the same year as Revenge of the Sith and Order 66. Is there any evidence as to just how much time there is between Dark Disciple ...
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Short story related to space time and boy that grows old
I'm trying to find a short story. I don't remember many of the specifics, but there is a boy that is exploring space and he doesn't heed the warning about flying too close to some object (maybe the ...
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Book: Two kids get powers where one is so fast that time seems to slow down around him while other can control time itself
In this book two kids got powers (believe the setting was back in medieval times where this took place in a village), where one kid can perceive everything as almost non-moving due to his speed, while ...
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Time is evaporating and writing is disappearing from the bricks that rise above the time barrier
I'm trying to ID a short story that's probably between 10-20 years old.
The setting is a city in a valley. Time behaves like a liquid affected by gravity. It's evaporated from most of the world, but ...
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Where is the Time Variance Authority located across time and space, and could it be located in the Quantum Realm?
In the show Loki (2021), the Time Variance Authority (TVA) is shown to be a massive city-like structure. However, there is no view of the outside world given from inside the TVA. Is there a canon ...
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What happens to everyone else when Cage resets the day?
So we know Cage gets the ability to reset the "day" by absorbing the blood of an Alpha mimic thus enabling him to kill the Omega and end the war. That's cool and everything but what happens ...
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Looking for title of SciFi story (on TV) about invisible men who fix things out of place in time [duplicate]
I remember a short I saw on TV many years ago about time as a continuum, I think a train? there were men who fixed things that were out of place. It was an explanation of why you would think your ...
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How much time passes in WandaVision?
Specifically, how long were the people of WestView
I got the impression that is was weeks if not months but I'm not sure what the official word is.
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Teen Book series of the MC being transported to different worlds to solve the puzzle
I’ve tried to remember and search for this book series I read about 14–15 years ago.
From what I can remember, it had the main character being transported to different worlds with different ...
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Which Star Trek species has had the longest real-world gap between canon references?
With Discovery bringing back the Talosians and Lower Decks bringing back the Pakleds, it occurred to me that Star Trek sometimes goes quite a long time without any mention of a particular species, ...
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How does Starfleet's recording or measuring of time vary throughout the galaxy?
It seems that Starfleet ships have a need to align their onboard clocks with some broader sense of official Starfleet time. I'm interested in why this is needed & how it works.
As an example, in &...
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How long has passed in Fort Salem?
Motherland: Fort Salem follows Raelle Collar, Abigail Bellweather and Tally Craven, three witches who are enlisted in the U.S. Army. By the end of the first season, they have completed basic and are ...
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How much time is between Phineas and Ferb and Milo Murphy's Law?
Phineas and Ferb aired from 2007-2015. Milo Murphey's Law first aired in 2016, according to Wikipedia there may or may not be another season at some point in the future. These 2 shows are crossovers, ...
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Is Zack Morris's 'time stop' ability in "Saved By the Bell" a supernatural ability?
I've always wondered if Zack Morris's ability to stop time in the show was to be taken literally as an ability, or if it was just a story device. The latter actually would make more sense... but for ...
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Time war story - soldier name lengthens as he travels further from the battle front
This is a short story I read in the late 80s. A soldier called H leaves an embattled position near a time-rift battlefront where humanity and unidentified aliens are shelling each other to prevent a ...
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Chronologically longest chapter in ASOIAF?
According to George R R Martin:
A Song of Ice and Fire is told through the eyes of characters who are sometimes hundreds or even thousands of miles apart from one another. Some chapters cover a day,...
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Nuclear missiles about to land but time stops except for a lone housewife. What show is it?
Posted in the blog "Postcards from the Zone," a blog focused on the Twilight Zone, the following entries were made on the page for "A Little Peace and Quiet:"
it was on chiller recently. This ...
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How long were Daenerys' dragons locked up?
How much time passes between Daenerys locking up her dragons, and Tyrion freeing them? Weeks? Months? Years?
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Biff To The Future Time Travel Paradoxes
In the comic book series Biff to the Future, Doc Brown and Mr. Strickland go back in time, Doc to stop Biff’s parents from getting married and Strickland for reasons I can’t tell. Also, Biff goes to ...
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What is this time loop called?
Like a stable time loop, but when each version of the time traveller goes back in time, they create a history that differs from the previous alternate history? Is there a general term for such an ...
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Missing day in The Horse and His Boy
In The Chronicles of Narnia: The Horse and His Boy, there seems to be a discrepancy in the timing of events.
After Shasta has given the warning to king Lune, he falls behind as their hunting party ...
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Time as money movie
I'm looking for the name of a short black and white movie in which people were given an allotted amount of time at birth, and used that time to buy things. For example, a can of beans in the store ...
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When was Robert Baratheon's coronation?
During the rebellion Tywin Lannister and Eddard Stark were at King's Landing during the demise of the Mad King Aerys as Robert was injured during the Battle of the Trident.
I know dates are not ...
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How long is a year on Asgard?
I was searching for an answer for this question and it got me thinking: What if a year on Asgard is longer than a year on Midgard?
Thor and Loki can be same Asgard age but born God knows how many of ...
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How is the passage of years measured in Game of Thrones? [duplicate]
On Earth, we have several cyclic, natural processes that we use to measure the passage of time: the weather (seasons), the stars (seasonal constellations), the length of days (the declination of the ...
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I was reading a book about a boy who was able to travel through time, and i am trying to remember its name
A couple years ago, I read a book about a boy that was able to imagine a clock in his head, and make the hands of the clock spin, forward and backwards, allowing him to travel through time. I believe ...
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How much time passed in the real world while Harry was at King's Cross in the final book?
Harry spends a whole chapter of the last book in King's Cross after getting hit by the killing curse from Voldemort (which sounds to be like at least ten minutes or more), however, it doesn't seem ...
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What is the actual time relationship between the Land and our Earth realities?
In the book series The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, there is a clear time discrepancy between the Land's time and our Earth time.
Roughly, between the first and second time Covenant ...
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How much time passed between episodes 20 and 21 of Star Trek: Voyager season 3?
When watching Star Trek: Voyager season 3 episode 21 Before and After I was surprised that Kes was anchored to a time where she had much longer hair, and that Tom and B'Elanna are seeing one another; ...
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Is Star Trek Beyond set after TOS in the original time line?
Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness were set before the events of the original series on either timeline.
On the Prime Timeline, TOS lasted for three seasons which I think equates to three ...
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Time rift episode on Star Trek TNG
I remember there was an episode in which the Enterprise was passing through an area of space that had pockets of accelerated time. What I so vividly remember about this episode is that Picard came ...
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What is the approximate timeline of season 6 of Game of Thrones?
Events in Game of Thrones season 6 have proceeded with rather uneven timing:
Episode 9 is perhaps excusable, since it is tightly focused. But the last episode is particularly egregious:
Can anyone ...
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Calendar in the Wheel of Time series?
While investigating this excellent timeline resource for the Wheel of Time series, I noticed the invented names of months in the leftmost column: Aine, Adar, Saven, Amadaine, Tammaz, Maighdal, Choren, ...
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How long does it take to get from Moat Cailin to Mole Town on horseback?
Question says it all. How long does it take to get from Moat Cailin to Mole Town on horseback?
Assumptions:
No battles are going on, but the land is not peaceful.
You need to not attract too much ...
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Time loop story involving gypsy curse
Back in the 90's I read a book that either was the whole book or just a short story in it which had a guy stuck in a time loop he eventually discovers is caused by a gypsy who cursed him because his ...
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What was the first story to feature stopped time?
It's common in science fiction, and occasionally fantasy, to see a device that can stop time.
Time travellers on Heroes, such as Peter Petrelli, Nathan "Tommy" Bennet, and Hiro Nakamura can make ...
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Trying to remember the name of a series/book involving time
A few years ago i read a book that involved time travel as one of the main plot elements. As of right now i can't quite place a finger on the name of the book.
Details that I remember
There were at ...
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How long did the War of Five Kings last?
The Five Kings are:
Robb Stark - The King of the North
Stannis Baratheon - Robert's younger brother and legitimate heir
Renly Baratheon - The youngest Baratheon who decided to proclaim himself king
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How could a starship crew get away with missing an entire day?
In the TNG episode Clues, the crew
However, when the Enterprise next interacts with Starfleet (eg docks at a space station or comes into contact with a time beacon1), won't they do some kind of clock ...
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How far is it between Hobbiton and the Lonely Mountain?
Although The Hobbit provides approximate times for the stages of Bilbo's and the dwarves' journey, it does not indicate how far they traveled. They left Hobbiton near the end of April and reached the ...
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What is the most distant future time period in science fiction? [closed]
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0. It must be a finite time period from the beginning of the Universe, (like 1 billion years)
1. It must have some relevance to the story or plot
2. It cannot be open ended, 'end of the ...
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Short story about a boy who lives in a time warp to age faster [duplicate]
A long while back I read a fairly short story about a boy who happened across a bunker that was stocked with supplies for longterm survival, MREs and such I believe.
The major plot device was that ...
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Trying to remember a dinosaur book
From what I remember, a guy is transported back in time, a time before dinosaurs. He is told to only travel on certain paths. When he breaks this rule, he bends a blade of grass that a dragonfly/...
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To the other side
If the Millennium Falcon went into light-speed, it'll be on the other side of the galaxy by now. ~ Admiral Piett
As far as I know, it takes a couple of days to cross the galaxy at light-speed. It's ...
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How long does a spell last in the Harry Potter universe? [duplicate]
I didn't find this question or a related answer to my question.
Some spells like "Avada Kedavra" are spells that are intended to do one thing, the conjurer focuses on that spell and when they stop ...
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Title of a book about trying to control “the moment” [duplicate]
I read this book which I think is from the early 2000s. I don’t know what it is called, who wrote it, or who published it, so I’m hoping a kind soul can help me out.
There’s this extra-dimensional ...
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How much time passed between The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and Prince Caspian?
The book series will nonchalantly say "hundreds" or "a thousand" or "thousands" of years in different places throughout, but is it ever stated exactly how much time passed between Peter, Susan, Edmund,...
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Are there still Leap Years in the Star Trek Universe?
I mean, if you are able to travel at warp speed, you should be able to come up with a viable calendar.
What canon information is there regarding whether or not somebody boldly fixed the Leap Year ...
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