Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo From: demillo@uwmacc.UUCP (Rob DeMillo) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: Re: why does the TARDIS move? Message-ID: <1400@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 12:52:39 EDT Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1400 Posted: Thu Aug 15 12:52:39 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Aug-85 08:06:32 EDT References: <965@rayssd.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 39 > 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?) > -- > from greg paris I've often wondered this myself. As an "ex-math-guy", I always thought the explaination for the motion of the TARDIS simply wonderful! (The TARDIS existing in n-space, and the otuside configuration being merely a mapped image to where/whenever desired.) As such, I have no idea why the TARDIS moves, other than to increase the storyline potential.... signed, equally confused in madison -- --- Rob DeMillo Madison Academic Computer Center ...seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!demillo "...That's enough, that's enough! Television's takin' its toll. Turn it off, turn it off! Give me the remote control! I've been nice! I've been good! Please don't do this to me! I've been nice, turn it off, I don't wanna hav'ta see... ...'The Brady Bunch!'"