ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Floating timeline

Okay kiddo, let me explain floating timeline to you in a way that you can easily understand. Imagine you are playing with your toy cars and you want to have a race, but you don't want the race to end. So what do you do? You make a floating timeline!

This means that you can keep the race going for as long as you want, and you don't have to worry about time passing or the race ending. It's like you have a bubble around the race, and nothing outside of that bubble affects what's happening inside it.

The same thing can happen in movies, TV shows, and even comic books. Sometimes, the creators want to keep the story going and going, without worrying about time passing. So they create a floating timeline, where the story exists in its own little bubble, and time doesn't really matter.

For example, let's say you're watching a cartoon show where the main character is always a kid, but the show has been on for 20 years. The creators might use a floating timeline, so that even though the show has been on for a long time, the character is still always a kid. This way, they can keep the story going without worrying about the character growing up and changing.

So, to sum it up, a floating timeline is like a bubble where time doesn't matter, and the story can keep going and going without worrying about things like age or the passage of time.
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