Any Doctor Who fans?

[rich p]

Do you find it a little bit embarrassing knowing the names and plots of this drivel?
Do you get your news reports from John Craven?

 

[marinyork]

Yes, I grew up with John Craven on Newsround . He's not too bad on Countryfile either.

 

[Night Train]

I always understood it that The Tardis, in the old black and white tv days (I'm showing my age), had a fault and The Doctor wasn't able to control where and when it ended up.

Also hadn't he run out out reincarnations a while ago.

 

[jonesy]

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Also hadn't he run out out reincarnations a while ago.

Not yet- IIRC, in the classic series there were references to timelords being limited to 13 regenerations. In one of the last Tom Baker series the Master has run out of regenerations, and needs to steal someone else's body in order to survive. Keeper of Traken? (sp?)

 

[Abitrary]

Not yet- IIRC, in the classic series there were references to timelords being limited to 13 regenerations. In one of the last Tom Baker series the Master has run out of regenerations, and needs to steal someone else's body in order to survive. Keeper of Traken? (sp?)

go on...

 

[TheDoctor]

I thought that with regard to continuum relativity, you could not travel further back in time than when the time-travel machine (in which you are travelling) was invented.

This means that "we" could not travel to the present.

Well, Kirk and co took the Enterprise back to the 1960s on at least two occasions - 'Assignment:Earth' and 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' and Picard's lot go back to the birth of warp drive - 'Star Trek - First Contact'. So there's no reason there not to go back before the invention of yer basic time machine.

I've thought about this way too much...

 

[Mr Pig]

I really don't have a problem with science fiction stretching the boundaries of what's possible, it can pose some interesting moral questions, but for the life of me I cannot fathom how any grown up can watch, never mind discus, a show that throws every single one of the rules of time, space, physics and reason out of the window.

The universe can be brought to the point of collapse by some device the size of a fridge then restored to normality by the wave of a light-up pen. F*** oOOOOOoooFF !!!!!!

 

[TheDoctor]

Didn't your imaginary friend create the whole universe?

 

[rich p]

Didn't your imaginary friend create the whole universe?

 

[jonesy]

go on...

Glad to oblige:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/keepertraken/detail.shtml

However, having done some digging, I realise that the limit was 12, not 13, regenerations and that the Master had reached his limit in the Deadly Assassin a few seasons before, which was before my time...

 

[marinyork]

Glad to oblige:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/keepertraken/detail.shtml

However, having done some digging, I realise that the limit was 12, not 13, regenerations and that the Master had reached his limit in the Deadly Assassin a few seasons before, which was before my time...

The point was that had he kept the key and sash of rassilon he'd have been able to prolongue his life, had he been able to stay keeper of traken he would have. As it was he managed anyway. There are other machines /devices to do with regeneration, not all of them work properly like the messed up one in Mawdryn Undead where they end up living forever. The master also undergoes various other schemes like bathing in the fire at Sarn to restore his body.

 

[02GF74]

But isn't there the whole idea that if a twin travelled at nearly the speed of light then he would be younger then the other twin that hadn't been travelling at the speed of light? Or is that the whole idea your putting forward bout time running a tenth of the speed?

I still think though that surley if we invented time travel in the future, we could come back and tell the present.

you have to ask what is time?

personally I subscribeto teh Kantian view where time is something that we has human s observe as opposedto the Newtonian idea where time is something fundamental.

I don't believe time exists but we as humans have a memory hence we can experience the effect of time.

Think of it this way. Take a movie reel that is the film of a clock. Each frame shows the second hand moving. Since we as humans have memory and can experience movement, we then can explain the clock using time.

It we had no memory, each frame is the present so we have no idea that any of the hands are moving hence we have no time.

 

[TheDoctor]

you have to ask what is time?

Time is 0848.
Time for tea.

 

[Mr Pig]

It we had no memory, each frame is the present so we have no idea that any of the hands are moving hence we have no time.

Well, not really. The hands would still be moving, so there would still be time. Just that we would have no perception of it. Not being aware of something doesn't stop it existing.