timequake

Etymology

From time + quake.

timequake means A disturbance in the flow of time. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 94 out of 100.

noun

A disturbance in the flow of time.“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 wo”