time loop n.

Memory is another abstract quality hard to define, unless one thinks of reliving every instant over and over as often as the time loop curls back on itself. Why do we remember some things in our childhood vividly, and forget other events completely a week after hamppening? Simply—yet not so simply—because the successive loops of time are overlapping in places, far apart in others.

The silver sphere before you is a perfect pendulum, its motion exactly adjusted by magnetic currents in the metal rail beneath it. The length of the time loop varies directly with the rate at which the sphere passes through the basin.

Arthur Rainier determined that a time loop was due to open within striking distance of this city last year.

‘When was he born? Where does he come from?’ ‘Those terms are meaningless in this sort of temporal relationship. He exists only within this time loop.’

Was there something tricky about this time jumping that neither he nor Murdo knew about? Overlapping, maybe, or a time loop or something…that could bring him around in a circle. [ellipsis in orig.]

Kirtwood Smith, trapped in an unending time loop in 12:01 P.M.

If he didn’t get back, he’d be in an endless time loop: reliving his life to the point of doing the experiment, then going back and living it again—and again and again.

As it turns out, we are trapped in a time loop—doomed to repeat this election cycle for all eternity!