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The time loop is a popular trope in Japanese pop culture media, especially anime. [15] Its use in Japanese fiction dates back to Yasutaka Tsutsui's science fiction novel The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1965), one of the earliest works to feature a time loop, about a high school girl who repeatedly relives the same day.
The "predestination paradox" is a concept in time travel and temporal mechanics, often explored in science fiction. It occurs when a future event is the cause of a past event, which in turn becomes the cause of the future event, forming a self-sustaining loop in time.
A "time loop" or "temporal loop" is a plot device in which periods of time are repeated and re-experienced by the characters, and there is often some hope of breaking out of the cycle of repetition. [31] Time loops are sometimes referred to as causal loops, [30] [31] but these two concepts are distinct. Although similar, causal loops are ...
This list of films featuring time loops in which characters experience the same period of time which is repeatedly resetting: when a certain condition is met, such as a death of a character or a clock reaches a certain time, the loop starts again, with one or more characters retaining the memories from the previous loop.
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The White House said the president wants to end a carried interest tax break prized by Wall Street hedge funds and private equity firms.
Move over, Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword—there's a new NYT word game in town! The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity ...
Why it works. Many of us write reminder notes on our phone or desk, says memory expert Todd Rogers, PhD, a professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, but the problem ...