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{{video|The TARDIS nurses the Doctor - Doctor Who - Castrovalva - BBC|thumb|align=right|[[Tremas Master|The Master]] directs [[the TARDIS]] towards Event One, and the [[Fifth Doctor]] is nowhere to be found. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'')}} | |||
'''Event One''', also known as | '''Event One''', also known as '''the Big Bang''', was a [[Big Bang]]. An explosion, the biggest "in history" according to [[Nyssa]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') and the biggest "of all time" according to the [[Fifth Doctor]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') which resulted in the '''creation of the [[universe]]''', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'', ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'') and of a sub-[[multiverse]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|The Beast]] called it "the Cataclysm". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') | ||
According to the [[Seventh Doctor]], the creation of the universe occurred 13,500,020,012 years before [[2109]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'') at 11:00 a.m. on [[15 February]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'') One source however suggests that the planet Earth was at least 50 billion years old as of [[2197]], implying Event One to be far further back in time. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Nowhere Place (audio story)|The Nowhere Place]]'') | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== Pre-universe === | === Pre-universe === | ||
At least one [[Pre-universe|universe]] existed before the one [[the Doctor]] lived in. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit]]'', ''[[Millennial Rites]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars]]'') The [[Great Old One]]s, [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]], and the [[Disciples of the Light]], natives of this pre-universe, survived the Big Bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') The [[Ancient Lights]] continued some sort of existence after Event One, but were unable to enter the new universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars]]'') | At least one [[Pre-universe|universe]] existed before the one [[the Doctor]] lived in existed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Pit (novel)|The Pit]]'', ''[[Millennial Rites (novel)|Millennial Rites]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[From Eternity (short story)|From Eternity]]'') The [[Great Old One]]s, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') [[The Beast (The Impossible Planet)|the Beast]], and the [[Disciples of the Light]], natives of this pre-universe, survived the Big Bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Satan Pit (TV story)|The Satan Pit]]'') The [[Ancient Lights]] continued some sort of existence after Event One, but were unable to enter the new universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'') | ||
The [[Solitract]] was a form of energy or conscience that existed during the pre universe. It inadvertently prevented the creation of the universe and was exiled into its own plane of existence during Event One. ([[TV]]: ''[[It Takes You Away (TV story)|It Takes You Away]]'') | |||
The [[Second Doctor]] tricked the [[Vist]] into travelling back in time to before the Time Lords evolved so they could claim ownership of time. Instead, they travelled to a point before the Big Bang, where there was no time for them to move across, and were thus trapped there forever. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forbidden Time]]'') | Before the universe, two beings of good and evil, possibly related to the Great Old Ones, existed and were caught in the explosion. While it is unclear what happened to the good force, the evil force, which later came to be called [[Fenric]], survived and encountered the Doctor in [[3rd century]] [[Constantinople]] and in [[Maiden's Point]] in [[1943]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'') | ||
The [[Second Doctor]] tricked the [[Vist]] into travelling back in time to before the Time Lords evolved so they could claim ownership of time. Instead, they travelled to a point before the Big Bang, where there was no time for them to move across, and were thus trapped there forever. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forbidden Time (audio story)|The Forbidden Time]]'') | |||
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] tricked the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]] into thinking he was taking it to the Dawn of Time. Instead, he took the Kin to the moment just before the Big Bang and left it there, in the Void before Creation, where it could do no harm to the universe. Its last word before the Doctor left was, "Doctor!" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'') | The [[Eleventh Doctor]] tricked the [[Kin (Nothing O'Clock)|Kin]] into thinking he was taking it to the Dawn of Time. Instead, he took the Kin to the moment just before the Big Bang and left it there, in the Void before Creation, where it could do no harm to the universe. Its last word before the Doctor left was, "Doctor!" ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Nothing O'Clock (short story)|Nothing O'Clock]]'') | ||
=== The Doctor's universe === | === The Doctor's universe === | ||
During the first period, there was an "empty void", ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') then matter exploded outward in the form of [[hydrogen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') | During the first period, there was an "empty void", ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') then matter exploded outward in the form of [[hydrogen]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Event One filled the multiverse with new matter, new energy, and new life. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
The Doctor speculated that the massive [[spacecraft|ship]] ''[[Terminus]]'' had time-jumped at some point, discharged its fuel and instigated the Big Bang before time-jumping a second time back from the distant past. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'') | [[File:Guardians of Time The Whoniverse.jpg|left|thumb|The [[Guardians of Time]] overlook the birth of the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'')]] | ||
The Doctor speculated that the massive [[spacecraft|ship]] ''[[Terminus]]'' had time-jumped at some point, discharged its fuel and instigated the Big Bang before time-jumping a second time back from the distant past. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') | |||
Another account had a [[Time Lord]] from the [[High Council]] stating to the [[Sixth Doctor]] that the ''[[Vipod Mor]]'', headed back in time to the creation of a galaxy, overshot and travelled back to before the universe, thus causing the Big Bang as a "dense monoblock of matter". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback]]'') | Another account had a [[Time Lord (Slipback)|Time Lord]] from the [[High Council]] stating to the [[Sixth Doctor]] that the ''[[Vipod Mor (Slipback)|Vipod Mor]]'', headed back in time to the creation of a galaxy, overshot and travelled back to before the universe, thus causing the Big Bang as a "dense monoblock of matter". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Slipback (audio story)|Slipback]]'') | ||
The [[Leptonic Era]] followed the Big Bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') | The [[Leptonic Era]] followed the Big Bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'') The [[Winter Lord]]s cooled the universe after the Big Bang. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Break the Ice (audio story)|Break the Ice]]'') On [[25 August]], [[287 (number)|287]] [[year]]s after the Big Bang, a massive [[quantum waveform]] collapsed and created the [[Medusa Cascade]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Time Traveller's Diary (novel)|Time Traveller's Diary]]'') | ||
A bug-like species nicknamed [[bookworm]]s fed on debris at the Big Bang and [[End of the universe|collapse of the universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunger from the Ends of Time! (comic story)|Hunger from the Ends of Time!]]'') | A bug-like species nicknamed [[bookworm]]s fed on debris at the Big Bang and the [[End of the universe|collapse of the universe]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Hunger from the Ends of Time! (comic story)|Hunger from the Ends of Time!]]'') | ||
=== The Big Bang Two === | === The Big Bang Two === | ||
The universe in which [[the Doctor]]'s adventures took place was [[Total event collapse|destroyed]] when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] exploded. In order to | The universe in which [[the Doctor]]'s adventures took place was [[Total event collapse|destroyed]] when [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] exploded. In order to negate the damage, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] used the combination of the exploding TARDIS and the [[Pandorica]] to create [[Big Bang Two]], a second Big Bang that effectively rebooted the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Big Bang (TV story)|The Big Bang]]'') | ||
== References to the Big Bang == | == References to the Big Bang == | ||
During the [[Thousand Year War]], a [[Valyes|Time Lord]] told the [[Fourth Doctor]] that the [[Time Lord]]s had mastered [[transmat]] technology when "the universe was less than half its present size". ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks]]'') | During the [[Thousand Year War]], a [[Valyes|Time Lord]] told the [[Fourth Doctor]] that the [[Time Lord]]s had mastered [[transmat]] technology when "the universe was less than half its present size". ([[TV]]: ''[[Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks]]'') | ||
The [[Seventh Doctor]] decided to celebrate the creation of the universe, [[13500020012 (number)|13,500,020,012]] [[year]]s after it occurred, in [[2109]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Transit (novel)|Transit]]'') | |||
The [[Fourth Doctor]] implied that he had watched it happen, or at least that other sentient beings had done so. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks]]'') | The [[Fourth Doctor]] implied that he had watched it happen, or at least that other sentient beings had done so. ([[TV]]: ''[[Destiny of the Daleks (TV story)|Destiny of the Daleks]]'') | ||
The delusional [[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]], believing himself God, wished his ship to travel back to the beginning of the universe and witness himself creating it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday]]'') | The delusional [[Monarch (Four to Doomsday)|Monarch]], believing himself God, wished his ship to travel back to the beginning of the universe and witness himself creating it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Four to Doomsday (TV story)|Four to Doomsday]]'') | ||
A [[Vess]] [[The Factory (The Light at the End)|weapons factory]] was set in a [[pocket dimension]] sustained with energy drawn from the Big Bang. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') | A [[Vess]] [[The Factory (The Light at the End)|weapons factory]] was set in a [[pocket dimension]] sustained with energy drawn from the Big Bang. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'') | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] noted that one could potentially sit out the Big Bang as well as the end of the universe and the "start of the [[after-universe|next]]" within a [[Void Ship]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'') He later acknowledged to [[Lady]] [[Christina de Souza]] that he himself had visited both the creation and the end of the universe. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Dead (TV story)|Planet of the Dead]]'') | |||
[[Luke Smith]] observed that the [[Ancient Lights]] predated the Big Bang. ([[TV]]: ''[[Secrets of the Stars (TV story)|Secrets of the Stars]]'') | |||
According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the [[Eye of Time]] was believed by some to be the left-over core of the Big Bang. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') | According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], the [[Eye of Time]] was believed by some to be the left-over core of the Big Bang. ([[GAME]]: ''[[City of the Daleks (video game)|City of the Daleks]]'') | ||
When asked "what happened", the [[Twelfth Doctor]] referred to the Big Bang, [[dinosaur]]s and [[biped]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died]]'') | When asked "what happened", the [[Twelfth Doctor]] referred to the Big Bang, [[dinosaur]]s and [[biped]]s. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Girl Who Died (TV story)|The Girl Who Died]]'') | ||
The [[Ninth Doctor]] [[laughter|laughed]] and [[tut]]ted at "definitive" works on the creation of the universe in the [[British Library]] [[Cosmology]] Section, also [[scribble|scribbling]] in the [[margin]]s. The Doctor quickly left after [[librarian (Have You Seen This Man?)|a librarian]] asked the Doctor for [[identification]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'') | |||
== Other information == | == Other information == | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:41, 13 October 2024
Event One, also known as the Big Bang, was a Big Bang. An explosion, the biggest "in history" according to Nyssa (TV: Castrovalva) and the biggest "of all time" according to the Fifth Doctor, (TV: Terminus) which resulted in the creation of the universe, (TV: The Big Bang, Planet of the Dead) and of a sub-multiverse. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) The Beast called it "the Cataclysm". (TV: The Satan Pit)
According to the Seventh Doctor, the creation of the universe occurred 13,500,020,012 years before 2109 (PROSE: Transit) at 11:00 a.m. on 15 February. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary) One source however suggests that the planet Earth was at least 50 billion years old as of 2197, implying Event One to be far further back in time. (AUDIO: The Nowhere Place)
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
Pre-universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
At least one universe existed before the one the Doctor lived in existed. (PROSE: The Pit, Millennial Rites, TV: Secrets of the Stars, PROSE: From Eternity) The Great Old Ones, (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel) the Beast, and the Disciples of the Light, natives of this pre-universe, survived the Big Bang. (TV: The Satan Pit) The Ancient Lights continued some sort of existence after Event One, but were unable to enter the new universe. (TV: Secrets of the Stars)
The Solitract was a form of energy or conscience that existed during the pre universe. It inadvertently prevented the creation of the universe and was exiled into its own plane of existence during Event One. (TV: It Takes You Away)
Before the universe, two beings of good and evil, possibly related to the Great Old Ones, existed and were caught in the explosion. While it is unclear what happened to the good force, the evil force, which later came to be called Fenric, survived and encountered the Doctor in 3rd century Constantinople and in Maiden's Point in 1943. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
The Second Doctor tricked the Vist into travelling back in time to before the Time Lords evolved so they could claim ownership of time. Instead, they travelled to a point before the Big Bang, where there was no time for them to move across, and were thus trapped there forever. (AUDIO: The Forbidden Time)
The Eleventh Doctor tricked the Kin into thinking he was taking it to the Dawn of Time. Instead, he took the Kin to the moment just before the Big Bang and left it there, in the Void before Creation, where it could do no harm to the universe. Its last word before the Doctor left was, "Doctor!" (PROSE: Nothing O'Clock)
The Doctor's universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the first period, there was an "empty void", (TV: Terminus) then matter exploded outward in the form of hydrogen. (TV: Castrovalva) Event One filled the multiverse with new matter, new energy, and new life. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel)
The Doctor speculated that the massive ship Terminus had time-jumped at some point, discharged its fuel and instigated the Big Bang before time-jumping a second time back from the distant past. (TV: Terminus, PROSE: The Whoniverse)
Another account had a Time Lord from the High Council stating to the Sixth Doctor that the Vipod Mor, headed back in time to the creation of a galaxy, overshot and travelled back to before the universe, thus causing the Big Bang as a "dense monoblock of matter". (AUDIO: Slipback)
The Leptonic Era followed the Big Bang. (TV: Time and the Rani) The Winter Lords cooled the universe after the Big Bang. (AUDIO: Break the Ice) On 25 August, 287 years after the Big Bang, a massive quantum waveform collapsed and created the Medusa Cascade. (PROSE: Time Traveller's Diary)
A bug-like species nicknamed bookworms fed on debris at the Big Bang and the collapse of the universe. (COMIC: Hunger from the Ends of Time!)
The Big Bang Two[[edit] | [edit source]]
The universe in which the Doctor's adventures took place was destroyed when the Doctor's TARDIS exploded. In order to negate the damage, the Eleventh Doctor used the combination of the exploding TARDIS and the Pandorica to create Big Bang Two, a second Big Bang that effectively rebooted the universe. (TV: The Big Bang)
References to the Big Bang[[edit] | [edit source]]
During the Thousand Year War, a Time Lord told the Fourth Doctor that the Time Lords had mastered transmat technology when "the universe was less than half its present size". (TV: Genesis of the Daleks)
The Seventh Doctor decided to celebrate the creation of the universe, 13,500,020,012 years after it occurred, in 2109. (PROSE: Transit)
The Fourth Doctor implied that he had watched it happen, or at least that other sentient beings had done so. (TV: Destiny of the Daleks)
The delusional Monarch, believing himself God, wished his ship to travel back to the beginning of the universe and witness himself creating it. (TV: Four to Doomsday)
A Vess weapons factory was set in a pocket dimension sustained with energy drawn from the Big Bang. (AUDIO: The Light at the End)
The Tenth Doctor noted that one could potentially sit out the Big Bang as well as the end of the universe and the "start of the next" within a Void Ship. (TV: Army of Ghosts) He later acknowledged to Lady Christina de Souza that he himself had visited both the creation and the end of the universe. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
Luke Smith observed that the Ancient Lights predated the Big Bang. (TV: Secrets of the Stars)
According to the Eleventh Doctor, the Eye of Time was believed by some to be the left-over core of the Big Bang. (GAME: City of the Daleks)
When asked "what happened", the Twelfth Doctor referred to the Big Bang, dinosaurs and bipeds. (TV: The Girl Who Died)
The Ninth Doctor laughed and tutted at "definitive" works on the creation of the universe in the British Library Cosmology Section, also scribbling in the margins. The Doctor quickly left after a librarian asked the Doctor for identification. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man?)
Other information[[edit] | [edit source]]
The White Guardian was most powerful at Event One, where his counterpart, the Black Guardian, could not interfere. (PROSE: The Well-Mannered War)
