Adam's serum: Difference between revisions

From Tardis Wiki, the free Doctor Who reference
(Created page with "{{first pic|Adam's serum.jpg|Adam holding the vial shortly after completing his work. (COMIC: ''Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 39 comic story)...")
Tag: 2017 source edit
 
No edit summary
Tag: 2017 source edit
Line 1: Line 1:
{{first pic|Adam's serum.jpg|[[Adam (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|Adam]] holding the vial shortly after completing his work. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 39 comic story)|Dr. Who's Time Tales]]'')}}'''Adam's serum''' was a unique substance which could increase a living being's lifespan by a large, but finite, amount.
{{first pic|Adam's serum.jpg|[[Adam (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|Adam]] holding the vial shortly after completing his work. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 39 comic story)|Dr. Who's Time Tales]]'')}}'''Adam's serum''' was a unique substance which could increase a living being's lifespan by a large, but finite, amount.


The serum, which was first tested on a [[microbe]], could multiply a living being's lifespan by a factor of ten, freezing the ageing process until the span of ten times the regular lifetime had mostly elapsed. In a [[human]], this would mean a lifespan of about a [[1000 (number)|thousand]] years: having first taken the formula in what appeared to be his thirties, [[Adam (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|Adam]] began aging again around the time he turned [[930 (number)|930]].
The serum, which was first tested on a [[microbe]], could multiply a living being's lifespan by a factor of ten, freezing the ageing process until the span of ten times the regular lifetime had mostly elapsed. In a [[human]], this would mean a lifespan of about a [[1000 (number)|thousand]] years: having first taken the formula in what appeared to be his thirties, [[Adam (Dr. Who's Time Tales)|Adam]] began aging again around the time he turned [[930 (number)|930]].

Revision as of 15:37, 25 February 2022

Adam holding the vial shortly after completing his work. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)

Adam's serum was a unique substance which could increase a living being's lifespan by a large, but finite, amount.

The serum, which was first tested on a microbe, could multiply a living being's lifespan by a factor of ten, freezing the ageing process until the span of ten times the regular lifetime had mostly elapsed. In a human, this would mean a lifespan of about a thousand years: having first taken the formula in what appeared to be his thirties, Adam began aging again around the time he turned 930.

The serum's creator, Adam, was a scientist, a member of a comparatively advanced human civilisation which eventually disappeared off the face of the Earth when most of its members left Earth behind to colonise another, distant planet, millennia prior to the 20th century. Adam only ever created a single dose, and it would have been impossible to create enough for the whole population. As such, the fellow scientists to whom he disclosed his discovery urged him to destroy it, lest it become an object of bitter conflict between would-be immortals. Unable to bring himself to destroy his miraculous discovery, however, Adam impulsively swallowed it himself. (COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales)