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  2. Time portal - Wikipedia

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    Time portals are doorways in time, employed in various fiction genres, especially science fiction and fantasy, to transport characters to the past or future.. They differ from time machines in being a permanent or semi-permanent fixture linking specific points in time, and thus are an especially useful plot device when the plot involves characters moving many times back and forth.

  3. Geologic time scale - Wikipedia

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    Geologic time scale. The geologic time scale, proportionally represented as a log-spiral with some major events in Earth's history. A megaannus (Ma) represents one million (10 6) years. The geologic time scale or geological time scale ( GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating ...

  4. Hollow Earth - Wikipedia

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    Ancient times. In ancient times, the concept of a subterranean land inside the Earth appeared in mythology, folklore and legends.The idea of subterranean realms seemed arguable, and became intertwined with the concept of "places" of origin or afterlife, such as the Greek underworld, the Nordic Svartálfaheimr, the Christian Hell, and the Jewish Sheol (with details describing inner Earth in ...

  5. Geological history of Earth - Wikipedia

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    The geological history of the Earth follows the major geological events in Earth's past based on the geological time scale, a system of chronological measurement based on the study of the planet's rock layers ( stratigraphy ). Earth formed about 4.54 billion years ago by accretion from the solar nebula, a disk-shaped mass of dust and gas left ...

  6. Ancient Aliens - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Aliens is an American television series produced by Prometheus Entertainment that explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format. Episodes also explore related pseudoscientific and pseudohistoric topics, such as: Atlantis and other lost ancient civilizations, extraterrestrial contact ...

  7. Gate deities of the underworld - Wikipedia

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    2nd gate: the guardian god is called " Swallower Of Sinners " and his gate precedes a lake of fire. 3rd gate: its guardian snake is "Stinger" while the portal itself is the goddess " Mistress Of Food "; some jackals watch over the "Lake of Life" interdicted to the dead because it is the place where Ra draws his breath.

  8. Stargate (device) - Wikipedia

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    A Stargate is a fictional Einstein–Rosen bridge portal device within the Stargate fictional universe that allows practical, rapid travel between two distant locations. [1] The devices first appeared in the 1994 Roland Emmerich film Stargate, and thereafter in the television series Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, and Stargate Universe.

  9. Geologic temperature record - Wikipedia

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    Geologic temperature record. The geologic temperature record are changes in Earth 's environment as determined from geologic evidence on multi-million to billion (10 9) year time scales. The study of past temperatures provides an important paleoenvironmental insight because it is a component of the climate and oceanography of the time.