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Another theory could be that the phrase refers to time locking, in which such an item is locked into a single second of time. It only exists at that point in time and no other so long as it is out of sync.
Contrast [[The Slow Path]], [[Portal to
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== Comic Books ==
* IDW's ''[[
* This was how Thanos kept [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]] from interfering with him in the storyline that introduced him back in the 1970s.
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== Literature ==
* In [[David Eddings]]' ''[[The Elenium]]'' series, it is mentioned that different gods have different ways to appear invisible. One of the troll gods uses time in this way.
* In ''[[
* ''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]] novels -- in the [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventure]] ''The Also People'', for example, the Doctor does it to hide the TARDIS from the [[The Culture|advanced race]] whose [[Dyson Sphere]] he's visiting, so they aren't tempted to reverse-engineer it.
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* [[Clifford Simak]]'s signature trope. He loves writing alternative Earths that are between that and alternative history. Other variations have been used too, such as hiding a time machine in a second in the past, rendering it unaccessible without the hero's powers of time control.
* In James Valentine's ''Jumpman Rule 1: Don't Touch Anything!'', time travelers use this concept to remain invisible as they observe historical moments of interest. In theory, staying several milliseconds out of sync with the time zone they are visiting, they will not be seen by the 'natives', and as long as they don't touch anything they won't screw with history. Unfortunately...
* In [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s ''[[Mission Earth]]'', the Voltarian Confederacy uses the time-warping powers of harnessed black holes to shift their entire capital city thirteen minutes into the future, rendering it invulnerable because any aggressors would find nothing to target. How local traffic is able to drive in and out of this time shift without incident while enemy ordnance is ''not'' is never explained.
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** 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]] this way.
** In "The Stolen Earth", the Daleks use this to create a pocket universe for their [[The End of the World
** 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.
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* The aliens in the ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' uses it a few times.
** "Year of Hell": The Krenim weapon ship exists outside of normal space-time when the temporal core is online. This doesn't render the ship invisible, but makes it immune to conventional weaponry. Also, the crew doesn't age in this state. There's also the more primitive Krenim torpedos, which use a similar effect to bypass shields.
** "Relativity": Seven of Nine is sent through time by the timeship USS Relativity (which is from the 29th century) to save Voyager from being destroyed by a strange device that is "out of phase" with normal time, since she is the only one that can see it due to her ocular implant.
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== Video Games ==
* This is used in combination with [[San Dimas Time]] in ''[[
* Some objects in ''[[Singularity]]'' are slightly out of phase with the present time. These are detectable with the "chronolight" function of the TMD, and it can also pull them back into sync for your use. Phased things include boxes for puzzle-solving, {{spoiler|Renko's footsteps from his last attempt to fix the problem,}} and even explosive barrels to chuck at enemies.
* This trope occurs in an ''[[Achron]]'' tactic called "Timewave Dodging". If a unit dies in the past, any passing [[Delayed Ripple Effect|timewaves]] will propagate its nonexistence into the present. By time traveling it right across the approaching timewave, you can prevent it from being wiped out of existence. Weirdly enough, you're not hiding from other time travelers; you're hiding from causality itself!
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== Western Animation ==
* This is one of the many things that happened to Baxter Stockman in the '80s ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987
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