[altosburg]

i'm trying to figure out if there is a name for this:

it concerns the concept that time in not linear. what is it called when information (energy patterns) from the future affects the present?
i understand that this phenomenon certainly exists. but is there a name for this?
i sometimes want to call it a time loop, but a time loop is actually what happens in the movie "groundhog day" so that name is already taken...

if this is a little unclear, please just ask me to elaborate.

thanks in advance