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| Rifts are holes in space and time, caused by paradoxes and other conflicts in causality.
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Future Hiro states he risks causing a rift by returning to the past. (Hiros)
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+ Hiro would have created a causality paradox by going into the past (i.e. if he saves Charlie from Sylar, he never has a reason to go back and save her), which could theoretically create a rift--possibly explaining his sudden return to the present. Hiro has not been able to fully access his powers since. This is also one common definition of a temporal rift in science-fiction literature. The fact that he kept his message ("Save the cheerleader, save the world") ambiguous supports the fact that Future Hiro was trying his best to alter the past without creating a paradox.
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| Rifts interfere with the abilities of time-travelers, either by leaving time-travelers unable to use their powers or by creating points in time they cannot travel to.
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Future Hiro speaks of rifts as something to be avoided. (Hiros)
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+ Also, Hiro's powers do not function properly after his trip to the past to save Charlie.
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| Rifts are not portals in space and time.
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+ While a rift, in science fiction literature, can refer to either a portal in space/time or a wound in space/time, it seems clear by the context of Future Hiro's remarks that they are using the latter sense of the word as rifts are suggested to be a bad thing.
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