less plot hole, more plot Klein bottle

[kaberett]

... being terminology I coined yesterday while attempting to describe something convoluted that wound up trying to have two or more things occupy the same space in a way that doesn't work in the context or number of dimensions it is constrained to.

I have not entirely worked this concept through and I'm not going to articulate it better at this point (good grief it is SO far past bedtime), but I amused myself and maybe it'll amuse you too.

Comments

[kaberett]

simont upon being informed I'd made this up cheerfully worked out what a plot Möbius strip is, for which I commend him.

[alexseanchai]

oo?

[simont]

A plot Möbius strip is one of those time travel paradox plots. We went back in time to stop a thing happening, and succeeded! So it never happened in the first place. So we had no reason to go back in time to stop it. So it did happen, and we had to go back in time, etc.

So you have to go round the loop twice to end up on the same side of it as you started.

[alexseanchai]

ah! yes that makes sense

[finch]

... yes, that is a useful term that immediately conveys its meaning. Thank you for sharing!

[alexseanchai]

indeed it does!

[vass]

Klein plottle.

[kaberett]

... VASS XD (not helped - or very helped? - by my sleepy misreading as "kein"...)