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* Playing hide-and-seek with other time travelers
* Planting booby traps
* [[Doctor Who/Recap/
The amount doesn't have to be exactly one second, but as a general rule of thumb, it should fall within the lifetime of the characters involved, so hiding at the beginning/end of the universe doesn't count. (Unless it happened just a second ago.)
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* In ''[[The Demolished Man]]'', Ben Reich had a safe that was "out of phase" with normal space, rather than time.
* ''Collision with Chronos'' by Barrington J. Bayley. A criminal in a city of time-twisters is sentenced to exile a second in the past. This is ''total'' exile: life only exists in the present moment, with our structures slowly decaying either side of the moving wave of "now".
* Has been used in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]]
* In C.S. Lewis' [[Space Trilogy]], Eldils are ephemeral to us due to this type of reason.
* In Reginald Bretnor's story "The Gnurrs Come From The Voodvork Out", when Papa Schimmelhorn is asked where the gnurrs came from, he explains that they came from yesterday. When someone objects that they weren't here yesterday, he says that, then, they were in the day before yesterday.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' has used it repeatedly.
** The original use was in the classic-series serial ''The Keeper of Traken'', in which the Master did it to the Doctor's TARDIS to cut off his escape route.
** In ''The End Of Time'', the Doctor hides the TARDIS from [[The Master (trope)|The Master]] this way.
** In "The Stolen Earth", the Daleks use this to create a pocket universe for their [[The End of the World as We Know It|multiverse-destroying]] machine.
** Sontarans hide the components of the ATMOS system that spew a gas that suffocates humans but Sontarans can be cloned in in "The Sontaran Stratagem" this way.
* The aliens in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' episode "Time's Arrow" live scant fractions of a second out of phase with the rest of reality.
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' uses it a few times.
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== Real Life ==
* This is always happening in reality, since time flows at different rates in different places due to the effects of relativity. GPS satellites, indeed, have to correct for this fact every so often so that they don't get out of synch with receivers on the Earth's surface and lose accuracy. While it does cause things to age at different rates,<ref>an effect that only really becomes prominent in extreme situations, such as flying near the speed of light, near a black hole, [[Bread, Eggs, Breaded Eggs|or flying near the speed of light near a black hole]]</ref>
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