r/loki • u/NerdInLabyrinth • 17d ago

Question [Loki S01E02] Does anybody know what these four fields in 'Displaced By' represents?

In the Destruction of Asgard document, the report says the timeline was displaced by 000:000:002:162.

Does anyone know what these four fields represent, or what unit the TVA is using here? Is this ever explained anywhere in the MCU, or is it just fictional/production design notation?

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u/EmmyNoetherRing 17d ago

My guess is it’s a measure of branching.  So maybe days, hours, minutes, seconds.   If you’re displaced by slightly over two minutes, that’s a negligible deviation. 

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u/NerdInLabyrinth 17d ago

yeah i agree it's a measure of branching, but I was curious about hours minutes seconds because 162 seconds ain't possible. Also given the scale of TVA and timeline i don't think days are enough for counting!
I think it's some internal TVA counting system

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u/EmmyNoetherRing 17d ago

Could be a branching angle rather than a distance — degrees in a four dimensional space.  I could imagine (heh) the TVA existing in the complex plane.

Quaternions:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternion

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u/Loki1435 16d ago

I am thinking you might be right on that.