Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site rayssd.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!rayssd!gmp From: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (Gregory M. Paris) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: why does the TARDIS move? Message-ID: <965@rayssd.UUCP> Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:43:06 EDT Article-I.D.: rayssd.965 Posted: Wed Aug 14 20:43:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 22:25:26 EDT Sender: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (Gregory M. Paris @ Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI) Distribution: net Organization: Raytheon Co., Portsmouth RI Lines: 16 The way I understand it, the "inside" of the TARDIS is in some other space (not unlike the "vast tract of hyperspace" where Earth II was being assembled in the Hitchhiker's Guide series). The inside of the TARDIS thus is "mapped" onto the "outside." Since it is really only necessary for transportation for the door of the TARDIS (and probably the rest of the outside) to move, it seems to me that only that part of the TARDIS actually need move through space-time. Moving the outside of the TARDIS and correspondingly altering the "mapping function" is all that is needed to accomplish travel under these assumptions. Question: Then why does it seem that the inside of the TARDIS is actually in motion? (Yes, I know, I must be wrong. So what's the ACTUAL way that it works?) -- ++---------------------------------------------------------------------------++ || Greg Paris {allegra,linus,raybed2,ccice5,brunix}!rayssd!gmp || ++---------------------------------------------------------------------------++