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From: gmp@rayssd.UUCP (Gregory M. Paris)
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Subject: why does the TARDIS move?
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Date: Wed, 14-Aug-85 20:43:06 EDT
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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?)
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