Editing Thiotimoline (section)

==Other references to thiotimoline==
In Glen Bever's story "And Silently Vanish Away" a chemist with the unique ability to use psychokinetic catalysis to speed up difficult reactions is shocked by a lab explosion and the mixture he was working on gets changed. Under analysis the structure never appears to be the same twice and when the substance is injected into lab rats they start to silently and suddenly vanish. It is found that one part of the compound is a molecule which spreads out into four dimensions. The four-dimensional molecule is thiotimoline. The story appeared in the November 1971 issue of ''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact''.

Topi H. Barr's story "Antithiotimoline" deals with a chemist who accidentally creates a thiotimoline-like compound which extrudes only into the past, enabling the scientist to create images of past events. The narrator complains that thiotimoline is extremely difficult to obtain, and suspects that the CIA or other agencies are controlling the supply for their own reasons. The story appeared in the December 1977 issue of ''Analog''.

[[Spider Robinson]]'s story "Mirror mirror, off the wall", published in ''Time Travelers Strictly Cash'' in 1981, also references thiotimoline.

In [[Robert Silverberg]]'s 1989 story "The Asenion Solution", thiotimoline is used to send excess quantities of [[The Gods Themselves|plutonium-186]] to the end of time, where they will fall over the brink into [[anti-time]] and lead to the [[Big Bang]].  "The Asenion Solution" appeared in the Asimov [[festschrift]] ''[[Foundation's Friends]]''.

The November/December 2001 and March/April 2002 issues of the [[IEEE Design & Test of Computers]] included spoof articles on the use of thiotimoline for debugging computers.<ref>[http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDT.2001.10043 "The Last Byte" in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol. 18, no. 06, pp. 80, 2001.]</ref><ref>[http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDT.2002.10009 "Yet Another Thiotimoline Application" in IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol. 19, no. 02, pp. 80, 2002.]</ref>

In the game ''[[We Happy Few]]'', a mysterious liquid called "motilene" acts as the primary source of electrical power in the setting, and is pumped throughout the city in pipes in lieu of a traditional electrical grid, or alternatively placed into special jars to act as portable batteries. A research note can be found in one location which makes reference to "thiomotilene crystals" and their "endochronic properties", which in turn strongly suggests motilene's name be derived from thiotimoline.{{Citation needed|date=August 2018}}