Possible Spoilers for Series 4 Doctor Who

[clipsie]

The following contains an extention of a theory bouncing around [new] Doctor Who, Series 4. I was drifting in thought during my Galaxy & Universe Astronomy class (is thinking of majoring in Astronomy), and this is something I came up with.

Comments

[darlys]

Captain Jack would probably be ecstatic at finally getting to shag someone new for the first time in years.

[clipsie]

Somehow, that would probably be true.

[hotchellerae]

hiii, spotted your entry on the doctor who community. i think your theory is really interesting, actually. and if it did happen, i'm kind of scared as to how they'd take it into the next series.

and an added tidbit (because i'm a whore for doing things like this) it's cosmologist. you put cosmotologist. lmao. :[

[clipsie]

Ah. Typo! *goes off to change it*

[clipsie]

>.> On your first thing, all I have to say is that if they did do this, it would be quite a mess for all three shows.

[eviltigerlily]

The operative world is parallel, the definition of wich is always maintaining the same distance. Imagine two parallel lines. However you move along one line the distance to the other one will remain the same.

Assuming the universe is in fact finite and spherical, like you described (it's only one possiblty covered by current theory) and that there is another universe/s outside it, that universe would not be parallel to our own, but another completely different one.

[clipsie]

Heh. I like the intellegent responses. I fully realize how flawed the theory I have typed is. It was more of a passing thought I found amusing.

[ibishtar]

Here from doctorwho. I think the concept of parallel universes that RTD is going for is the 'His Dark Materials' approach, where ruptures in the fabric of space-time opens windows to other worlds (wormholes?)
Good to see a burgeoning interest in astronomy! So rather than the walls of two universes crashing into each other, the merging would be more a case of cracks appearing in space-time allowing passage between the two. If this is already beginning to happen, I wonder when the Doctor will begin to take notice!

[clipsie]

Oh, don't worry. I realize the merger is the most probable if something like this were to happen. It was a passing, quite amusing thought during astronomy.

[skywaterblue]

Agreement -- the entirety of Doomsday is basically cribbed from HDM, right down to mysterious particles that can only be seen by a certain type of lens and the 'void' between two parallel universes consisting of nothingness that can suck you in and be remotely triggered as a weapon.

Following that, Pullman describes his parallel universes as 'layers' like an onion, each layer being created due to a substantial change from the base world. (Lyra and Will eventually travel to the 'base' worlds, where as Lyra's world and Will's world are implied to be quite close to one another.)

So possibly what has happened is that the existence of Rose's world no longer has sufficient change from The Doctor's world and is collapsing down. Either that or it has so many holes in it that it is no longer holding cohesion. We're not given a process by which universes can collapse in Pullman's cosmology, but this is my best guess.

[clipsie]

Ah true. Mind you, I did this from the standpoint of, 'What would happen if Universes acted like galaxies' viewpoint, so therefore, I do agree with much you are saying.

Also, the snowball idea is quite the awesome idea. A giant snowball of a universe. The idea of the universe being a snowball does amuse me though.

Yay astronomy.

[clipsie]

XD Best comment ever.

Also, snow! >.> Try living with it for around six months. *Is in Canada.*