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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]] ~~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.

* 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.

* 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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== 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>, it does not "phase out" objects from the rest of the universe or make them unreachable in any sense. Only stuff that falls beyond a black hole's event horizon can be called truly unreachable.

* 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> it does not "phase out" objects from the rest of the universe or make them unreachable in any sense. Only stuff that falls beyond a black hole's event horizon can be called truly unreachable.