Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site topaz.RUTGERS.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!trudel From: trudel@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (Jon) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: why does the TARDIS move? Message-ID: <3333@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> Date: Sun, 18-Aug-85 20:22:54 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.3333 Posted: Sun Aug 18 20:22:54 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 21:05:57 EDT References: <965@rayssd.UUCP> <1400@uwmacc.UUCP> <757@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Sirius Cybernetics Complaints Planet #2 Lines: 23 >As for the scenes of the TARDIS spinning through space, I have never >found them internally consistent either -- if it vanishes from sight >when "taking off", why would it be visible during any part of the >"transit" period? > >All in all, just symptoms of poor writing and/or direction, I would say. > >Will Will, How else could they show that the TARDIS was in transit? I think that it is necessary. Also, the TARDIS has to travel through SOMETHING to get from one place to another. On the theoretical side, perhaps the spinning TARDIS is the 4-dimensional image of itself as it travels through pan-dimensional space. -- Jonathan D. Trudel arpa:trudel@ru-blue.arpa uucp:{seismo,allegra,ihnp4}!topaz!trudel "You can't fight in here, this is the WAR ROOM!"