Cat: What is it?
Rimmer: It's a rent in the space-time continuum.
Cat: What is it?
Lister: The stasis room freezes time, you know, makes time stand
still. So whenever you have a leak, it must preserve
whatever it's leaked into, and it's leaked into this room.
Cat: What is it?
Rimmer: It's singularity, a point in the universe where the normal
laws of space and time don't apply.
Cat: What is it?
Lister: It's a hole back into the past.
Cat: Oh, a magic door! Well, why didn't you say?
-- Red Dwarf - 'Stasis Leak'