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- From: morourk@neumann.une.edu.au (Michael O'Rourke)
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- Subject: Re: Limits on TARDIS travel (Was Re: The Doctor is...)
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 07:16:03 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.212248.28473@tms390.micro.ti.com>, nsmith@tms390.micro.ti.com (Neal Smith) writes:
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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
- > not interested in continuing the Gallifreyan vs. Time Lord flamewar
- > from Hell] invented time travel, so it doesn't seem to have a limit in
- > this direction.
-
- Actually, the big-bang did not start with a hydrogen inrush, I think they're
- refering to the start of the galaxy ('though I'm not even sure that this
- started with a hydrogen inrush either).
- The big-bang is a weird phenomenon; the big bang
- produced the entire universe as we know it today, all matter, all energy etc.
- But here's the catch...it also produced all time and space as well. So
- not only was there no hydrogen to undergo an inrush, there was no space-time
- for it to inrush in, either.
- So the TARDIS hasn't as far as we know travelled to the start of time; maybe
- back to the start of our galaxy (or some other galaxy), but that's all.
- Michael.
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