Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliven.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!oliveb!oliven!barb From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big? Message-ID: <400@oliven.UUCP> Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 14:58:10 EDT Article-I.D.: oliven.400 Posted: Thu Aug 22 14:58:10 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 05:45:13 EDT References: <456@moncol.UUCP> <569@hou2a.UUCP> <3464@dartvax.UUCP> <103@pyrnj.uucp> <643@brl-tgr.ARPA> <2656@randvax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca Lines: 27 > > Not necessarily, as they say in innumerable Monty Python skits. I don't > know precisely how the doctor ejected that mass; he may have had to rotate > it out of whatever dimension it was in before ejecting it. Consider the > suitcase in Heinlein's "Glory Road": when folded it had the same mass > as an ordinary backpack, but when unfolded from its several dimensions it > was observed to contain objects totalling many times that mass; we were > just seeing the projection of the thing into our own 3 spatial dimensions, > and that's all the mass and inertia our universe was getting charged with. > Jim Gillogly I like this explanation -- as D&Ders call it, the TARDIS is a very large bag of holding. Of course we don't explain how this is, beyond MAGIC -- but then, to quote one (or two) noted authors, "Any significantly advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." And who knows what Time Lords REALLY are??? ___________________ ______________\ ___________ | ______ / . / / o .ooo. ./ /. . o@ooo0 Barb .ooooo. .ooooo. .oooo oo..oo oo...ooo ooo..ooo \ .oo oo oooooo oooooo ooo ooo