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[scarfman]

• Wed, 22:42: Hero of Three Faces update: Susan told us. I don't know why people don't get it. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/bafp.htm #doctorwho

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Which Doctor Who is this referencing?


P.S: ... I double-checked this one links to the Guinan/Mary Tyler Moore crossover.

Re: with post script:

[scarfman]

Link corrected.

Re: with post script:

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

Okay... now I get the joke!

(Heh)

BTW, the author, Bob Bryanton, has written a book, and made a long series of videos on "Imagining 10 dimensions," which, to me, seem pretty clear; his video condensing it all into two minutes is here: https://youtu.be/hf2CxZPl7KI

I have no problem with his conceptualization... until he gets into the 8th dimension. Then, his tone shifts when he starts talking about the implications of all this, and (in his full length "movie") sounds like a self-appointed quasi-spiritual "guru" of some sort, which puts me off no end. Especially since most of his videos in the last two years are all loudly complaining how people whose profession is physics and mathematics are all closed minded, and bigoted against him (hint, Mr. Bryanton: this is not how to convince your critics that your points are sound).

But in any case, this framework could be fun to use in a fictiverse like Doctor Who. ...And according to which, I think the TARDIS is constructed in five dimensions, but travels via the sixth...

:-)

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[scarfman]

Well, here's the way I treat multidimensionial physics in my Doctor Who crossovers. (Some of this is review from cartoon dialog.)

First of all, "dimension" isn't a place, it's a quality spacetime possesses so it can have places.

You have the first three, physical, dimensions. Then you have the fourth dimension, time, which is what permits you to move about within the first three. In order to move about freely in time, the fourth dimension, therefore you must discover the fifth dimension, which Susan names "space", or alternate spaces or universes.

Now since Time Lord travel technology demonstrably encompasses travel to alternate universes as well (Inferno, the Rise of the Cybermen - Journey's End arc, the Doctor's concern in Invasion of Time about Sontarans getting access to "all universes"), you must be right and they must have discovered the sixth dimension as well, in order to be able to travel in five. How that ties into Jacob Burroughs' six-axis dimension theory as tested and proven in Heinlein's Number of the Beast I'm not as certain as I once was, but 'm sure it does.

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[capriuni.livejournal.com]

*clicks link*

*laughs*