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- From: 00bwanderson@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu
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- Subject: Re: Limits on TARDIS travel (Was Re: The Doctor is...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.154447.12074@bsu-ucs>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 20:44:47 GMT
- References: <1992Nov7.191129.20401@yang.earlham.edu> <1992Nov18.042404.20655@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>
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- In article <1992Nov18.042404.20655@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, markc@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU writes:
- >
- > as010b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (andrew david simchik) writes:
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >>>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
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Mark C.
- >
- >>-----------------------------------------------------
- >>>From Neal Smith (nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com)
- Ah...well, if you can recall from my earler posts, the limitation was on travel
- to GALLIFREY'S past, not the multiverses' past(s). So yes, the TARDIS could
- have been heading for Event One (tm) as long as they weren't trying to land on
- Gallifrey (which, obviously, they weren't. 8^).
-
- OK?
-
- Bruce
-
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