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- From: walsh@via.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: Limits on TARDIS travel (Was Re: The Doctor is...)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.195339.26263@dbased.nuo.dec.com>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:53:39 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov18.042404.20655@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, markc@hydra.maths.unsw.EDU.AU () writes:
- >>>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.
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- When was this said in the story? Didn't Nyssa say that they were "headed for
- the biggest explosion in history"?
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- Thomas Walsh walsh@via.enet.dec.com Nashua, NH
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