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- From: markc@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU ()
- Subject: Re: Limits on TARDIS travel (Was Re: The Doctor is...)
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- as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
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- >Now I suppose you'll tell me that in a later incarnation, the Doc went back
- >in time and became Rassilon, in a sort of historical fulfillment thing.
- >However, the TARDIS does have limits on its travel, and *cannot* function
- >before a certain point in time.
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- >>There's at least one episode contradicting this... in _Castrovalva_, the
- >>Master sends the TARDIS back to "Event One, the hydrogen inrush", i.e.,
- >>the Big Bang, the start of time. I would assume, if this is the start
- >>of the universe, that it is before the Gallifreyans/Time Lords [no, I'm
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- This is a common error. The event one described in Castrovalva was not the
- Big Bang. It was the creation of the Galaxy from a Hydrogen inrush (well
- this is a novel approach to galatic astrophysics). There is a big difference
- between the Big Bang and this event of Galaxy formation.
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- Mark C.
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- >>From Neal Smith (nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com)
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