temporele

Temporele is a fictional or speculative concept used in discussions of time transfer and temporal information flow. The term combines Latin tempus (time) and relay, signaling its intended meaning as a unit or event that carries temporal state between locations or moments without conventional spatial motion.

Origin and scope: The word emerged in early 21st-century science fiction and philosophical thought experiments as a convenient shorthand for devices or processes that affect timing of events rather than their spatial position. It is not recognized as a physical entity in established physics.

Conceptual model: In hypothetical models, a temporele can be imagined as a channel that transmits a time-tagged state from a source to a destination, potentially altering the chronology of receiving systems. Some discussions distinguish between transmitting temporal information (temporal signaling) and moving objects through time (time travel).

Applications and use: In fiction, temporeles enable nonlinear narratives or causality play with timelines. In philosophy and information theory, they are used as thought experiments to explore causality, determinism, signaling without mass transport, and the limits of information causality under special relativity.

Limitations and critique: The concept has no empirical support; it raises paradoxes and challenges related to causality and the second law of thermodynamics. Critics argue that any model of temporele must respect relativistic causality and avoid paradoxes.

See also: closed timelike curves, causality, temporal network, information theory, relativity.