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When [[Isaac Newton]] formed his concept of [[gravity]] in [[1666]] after an [[apple]] fell on his head while he was pondering under a tree, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed into the tree above him, and [[Donna Noble]], despite the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s initial attempts to stop her before he joined in, made a joke concerning the "gravity of [their] situation". After the TARDIS took off again, Newton grew confused and misremembered the "delightful word" they had said as "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) causing the term "gravity" to seemingly be retroactively erased from history and replaced by the word "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) though the Fourteenth Doctor at least momentarily retained his knowledge of the original word. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})
When [[Isaac Newton]] formed his concept of [[gravity]] in [[1666]] after an [[apple]] fell on his head while he was pondering under a tree, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed into the tree above him, and [[Donna Noble]], despite the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s initial attempts to stop her before he joined in, made a joke concerning the "gravity of [their] situation". After the TARDIS took off again, Newton grew confused and misremembered the "delightful word" they had said as "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) causing the term "gravity" to seemingly be retroactively erased from history and replaced by the word "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) though the Fourteenth Doctor at least momentarily retained his knowledge of the original word. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})


Other terms were also impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "mavitational field". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})
Other terms were also impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "mavitational field". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) However, according to one account, such terms were not impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "antigrav". ([[TV]]: [[Dot and Bubble (TV story)]])


=== Meta-History ===
=== Meta-History ===

Revision as of 23:40, 1 June 2024

Due to a change in history, the concept of gravity became known as mavity.

History

Change in history

Isaac Newton misremembers the word "gravity" as "mavity". (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

When Isaac Newton formed his concept of gravity in 1666 after an apple fell on his head while he was pondering under a tree, the Doctor's TARDIS crashed into the tree above him, and Donna Noble, despite the Fourteenth Doctor's initial attempts to stop her before he joined in, made a joke concerning the "gravity of [their] situation". After the TARDIS took off again, Newton grew confused and misremembered the "delightful word" they had said as "mavity", (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) causing the term "gravity" to seemingly be retroactively erased from history and replaced by the word "mavity", (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"], The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) though the Fourteenth Doctor at least momentarily retained his knowledge of the original word. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"])

Other terms were also impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "mavitational field". (TV: Wild Blue Yonder [+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"]) However, according to one account, such terms were not impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "antigrav". (TV: Dot and Bubble (TV story))

Meta-History

The usage of "mavity" would persist into the 43rd century, where people would refer to a "mavitational anomaly". (AUDIO: Oodunnit [+]Loading...["Oodunnit (audio story)"])

The Toymaker would directly, in acknowledging his readers, note that the time taken for a body to fall from a building was described by "Isaac Newton's law of mavity". (PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"])

On 25 December 2023, the Fifteenth Doctor explained to Ruby Sunday that, when using his intelligent gloves, the mass, density and mavity would be tranferred from the user. Later, when he and went to escape from the Goblin ship, he adjusted his centre of mavity. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"page":"","chaptnum":"Nine, Eleven","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})

Mavity reading onscreen. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])

The telepathic circuits translated a word in the language used by Baby Station Beta into "Mavity" for Ruby. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])

While the Unravel was affecting histories of language, Melvart of the Dead & Endangered Languages department once investigated a peculiarity in various Earth languages related to the word which in English was "Mavity". These included Irish-Gaelic's Domhantarraingt, 17th century-24th century's Mavité, and 14th century Italian's Mavità, which were all capitalised on principle, owing to the plentiful evidence that in all Earth languages where the matter was settled for certain, words with that meaning were capitalised, going all the way back to the earliest Indo-European sources. This investigation was dismissed due to 18th century-25th century English not being dead or endangered, and thus the purview of a different department in the Multiplicity. (PROSE: {{esquivalience}} [+]Loading...["Esquivalience (novel)","'\"`UNIQ--nowiki-0000001D-QINU`\"'"])

Reversion

At the point in meta-time in which Olivia Kagg Waldermein wrote Love & War: A Meta-Historical Investigation of the Dawn of the Cosmic Revolution, the matter of gravity's true name was a recent controversy among meta-historians. Among the meta-temporal uncertainty was a short-lived version of history where Gravity was known as "gevity" due to interference from followers of Epsilon the Watcher. The force was termed "gravity" from Waldermein's perspective after a time-interventionist claimed to put things right using clumsy methods, although at this point Isaac Newton was known as "Isaac Mewton". (PROSE: Love & War [+]Loading...["Love & War (short story)"])

Behind the scenes

References

  1. IMDb YouTube channel (9 May 2024). Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson Answer Fan Questions for DOCTOR WHO. YouTube. Retrieved on 13 May 2024.
  2. James Goss (16 January 2024). "Could you just say it wrong?". Twitter. Retrieved on 13 May 2024.
  3. Joe George (18 January 2024). A Sneaky Doctor Who Reference Makes “Mavity” an Even More Intriguing Mystery. Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 18 January 2024. Retrieved on 13 May 2024.