metatime

plural metatimes · alternative meta-time

1. countableuncountableA hypothetical supervening temporal frame that changes in the passage of time happen within.

   How does the concept of sacred metatime fit into the scientific worldview, which proposes both a Big Bang at the beginning of this universe[…]

   2008, James R. Adair, Introducing Christianity, →ISBN, page 38

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   This second representation is fictitious in the sense that we are allowing agents to be present in a market that opens in meta-time and we are representing the generational structure by restrictions on the trades that agents are able to make.

   1999, Roger E. A. Farmer, Macroeconomics of Self-fulfilling Prophecies, →ISBN, page 213f.

   Now consider what happens when the Terminators travel back in time to 1994. They travel back to a 1994 that is located at a different metatime, t₂.

   2009 May 13, William Irwin, Richard Brown, Kevin S. Decker, Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I Am, →ISBN, page 149

   My Setacia story was, I admit, simplistic—deliberately, riskily so—but its main purpose was to present a valid point about time and meta-time.

   2014 July 24, Andrew Steane, Faithful to Science: The Role of Science in Religion, →ISBN, page 148

   Synonyms: hypertime