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'''The Time Sphere''' is a green, shimmering sphere that allows a user to [[time Travel|travel into the past]]. However it is a one way trip—the sphere cannot be used to return to the future. The Time Sphere can only be summoned if the binary [[Machine language time code|time code]] is spoken out loud. The time code is 001100010010011110100001101101110011. In decimal this is 13194894195, though the decimal representation is less meaningful than the binary.
The '''time sphere''' is a green, shimmering sphere that allows a user to [[Time Travel|travel into the past]]. However, it is a one-way trip—the sphere cannot be used to return to the future—and can only be summoned if the binary [[Machine language time code|time code]] is spoken out loud. The time sphere is apparently under the stewardship of the [[Galactic Entity]] (and may in fact be the reason for its existence). When a summoner jumps inside, time goes slower, while they tell where to go.
The Time Sphere is apparently under the stewardship of the [[Galactic Entity]] (and may in fact be the reason for its existence).


== Additional Info ==
== Additional Info ==
=== Trivia ===
=== Trivia ===
*The only known people to have ever used the Time Sphere are [[Nudar]], [[Bender]] and [[Fry]]. Since the Machine Language Time Code is a "one-way" time code (meaning that one can go backwards but not forwards in time), these three characters have different ways to combat this. Fry freezes himself in a cryogenic tube, Bender waits for thousands of years under the Planet Express building, and Nudar simply lives for 24 hours (he only goes backwards by one day).
*The only known people to have ever used the time sphere are [[Nudar]], [[Bender]], [[Chris Travers]] and [[Fry]]. Since it is a "one-way" trip (meaning that one can go backwards but not forwards in time), these four characters have different ways to combat this. Fry freezes himself in a cryogenic tube, Bender waits for thousands of years under the Planet Express building, Nudar simply lives for 24 hours (he only goes backwards by one day), and Travers just stayed where he was, as was planned so he could become [[President of Earth]] in [[3012]].
*The binary numerals were originally going to be part of a much more complex plot, but the idea was cut.
*It should also be noted that all four interacted with their time travel duplicate; Nudar went out with his, Bender instructed his to wait for Fry, Fry argued with his, and Chris Travers helped with his own birth.
*The first half of the first line of the code is binary for one, the second line is two, and so on to six.
*The code was originally meant to be a set of winning lottery numbers but was changed for plot purposes. The writers remembered that the code had to the same backwards as forwards, otherwise Fry would not have been able to read it from a mirror.


=== Appearances ===
=== Appearances ===
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=== See also ===
=== See also ===
*[[Machine language time code]]
*[[Machine language time code]]
*[[Time travel]]


[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Technology]]
[[Category:Time travel|Sphere, time]]

Latest revision as of 11:28, 25 January 2016

Time sphere
The Time Sphere.jpg
TypeTime machine
Owner(s)Galactic Entity
First appearanceBender's Big Score
Film
Current statusSummonable with time code

The time sphere is a green, shimmering sphere that allows a user to travel into the past. However, it is a one-way trip—the sphere cannot be used to return to the future—and can only be summoned if the binary time code is spoken out loud. The time sphere is apparently under the stewardship of the Galactic Entity (and may in fact be the reason for its existence). When a summoner jumps inside, time goes slower, while they tell where to go.

Additional Info

Trivia

  • The only known people to have ever used the time sphere are Nudar, Bender, Chris Travers and Fry. Since it is a "one-way" trip (meaning that one can go backwards but not forwards in time), these four characters have different ways to combat this. Fry freezes himself in a cryogenic tube, Bender waits for thousands of years under the Planet Express building, Nudar simply lives for 24 hours (he only goes backwards by one day), and Travers just stayed where he was, as was planned so he could become President of Earth in 3012.
  • It should also be noted that all four interacted with their time travel duplicate; Nudar went out with his, Bender instructed his to wait for Fry, Fry argued with his, and Chris Travers helped with his own birth.

Appearances

See also