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From: barb@oliven.UUCP (Barbara Jernigan)
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Subject: Re: Why is a TARDIS so big?
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Date: Thu, 22-Aug-85 14:58:10 EDT
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> 
> 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???

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