User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-7302713-20130331225051/@comment-1166667-20130331232214

I like to think of it as a "time knot".

Imagine you're tying an enormous knot. You start on the left, follow the string to the right, and only at the end does it loop back before moving forward again.

Aborting the Tick Tock Timeline is like taking the two ends and pulling as hard as you can. The knot snaps shut, and the timeline is restored (albeit with some "bumps" at the point of intersection).