Just as you need the fourth dimension, time, to travel in the three physical dimensions, to travel in time you need the fifth dimension, space.
.... Dude. In one sentence, you just managed to make perfectly clear what the show itself has been handwaving its way around for forty-plus years, and make it consistent with the nonsense Susan was spouting in An Unearthly Child. I need to go put on a hat just so I can take it off to you.
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Date: 2007-05-11 06:44 pm (UTC)I mainly wanted to comment on this, though:
Just as you need the fourth dimension, time, to travel in the three physical dimensions, to travel in time you need the fifth dimension, space.
.... Dude. In one sentence, you just managed to make perfectly clear what the show itself has been handwaving its way around for forty-plus years, and make it consistent with the nonsense Susan was spouting in An Unearthly Child. I need to go put on a hat just so I can take it off to you.