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| '''Time travel''' is, as the name suggests, the (usually controlled) process of travelling through [[time]], even in a non-linear direction.
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| ==Methods==
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| ===Technological or biotechnological methods===
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| ====By [[space-time vessel]]====
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| Time travel of this kind commonly requires a great deal of power. The [[Time Lord]]s converted a [[star]] into a [[black hole]] in order to achieve time travel ([[DW]]: ''[[The Three Doctors]]'') and used the [[Eye of Harmony]] thereafter ([[DW]]: ''[[The Deadly Assasin]]''). The [[Imperial Dalek]]s under [[Davros]], who already had limited [[time corridor]] technology, expected to do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''). Following the (presumed) loss of the Eye of Harmony, [[Ninth Doctor|the Doctor]] used the [[Cardiff rift]] to "re-charge" [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Boom Town]]'')
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| :''Travel using time vessel commonly involves the [[Time Vortex]].''
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| ====Other technological means====
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| *[[Osmic projector|Osmic projection]], a means used by the [[Sontaran]]s. [[Third Doctor|The Doctor]] described this method as rather limited in its temporal range, when used by the Sontaran scout. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Time Warrior]]'')
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| *[[Time Scoop]] technology enabled the user to transport other people and objects remotely. But without any ally on the other end to return one, it may leave the user stranded in another time period with no way to return.
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| *[[Time corridor]] technology used by both the [[Dalek]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''), [[Osirian]]s ([[DW]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'') and the [[Borad]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')
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| *A kind of [[time viewer]] called a [[quantum imager]], enabled one to observe and (to a limited degree) communicate with people in the past. ([[BFBS]]: ''[[The Least Important Man]]'')
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| *Pushing energy into [[warp drive]] to create a [[time window]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'')
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| :''A warp drive accident fractured one unfortunate individual, [[Scaroth]] into "fragments" scattered through various eras of time and linked by [[telepathy]] ([[DW]]: [[City of Death]]). Another warp drive accident had the effect of propelling the vehicle in question roughly 65 million years back in time. ([[DW]]: [[Earthshock]]'')
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| *The use of a [[rift manipulator]] in conjuction with the temporal rift itself. ([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
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| :''The column in the center of a Human-built rift manipulator bore a resemblance of the central column a TARDIS, indiciating, perhaps, a similar function.''
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| ===By [[psychic]] power or other natural ability===
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| * The [[Eight Legs]] could [[teleport]] as easily through time as through space. [[K'anpo Rimpoche]], a highly advanced Time Lord with great mental discipline, could do the same. ([[DW]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'') The enigmatic [[Bilis Manger]] could also also teleport at will through both time and space. ([[TW]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (Torchwood story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'', ''[[End of Days]]'')
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| *[[Transcendental Being]]s have free movement through space and time.
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| *[[Fenric]] could transport other living beings via [[time storm]]s. The people displaced by the time storm often believed they had caused the time storm themselves. ([[DW]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'', ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric (TV story)|The Curse of Fenric]]'')
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| *The [[Fairy|Fairies]] could travel through time and space naturally. ([[TW]]: ''[[Small Worlds]]'')
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| ===By space-time anomaly===
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| *The [[Tharil]]s "rode the [[time wind]]s". ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors Gate]]'')
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| *Possibly a [[warp ellipse]] can make time travel possible. ([[DW]]: ''[[Mawdryn Undead]]'')
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| *Travel via time rift is possible. The [[Weevil]]s arrived on Earth via this method ([[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]''), as did a Human [[aircraft]], the ''[[Sky Gypsy]]''. ([[TW]]: ''[[Out of Time]]'')
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| ===By unexplained methods===
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| *[[Edward Waterfield]] and [[Theodore Maxtible]] attracted the attention of the [[Dalek]]s while experimenting with [[static electricty]] and [[mirror]]s.
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| *The mysterious [[The Gateway|Gateway]] situated in the void between [[N-Space]] and [[E-Space]] provided access different times and realities, sometimes through mirrors. Again, the exact process remains unknown. ([[DW]]: ''[[Warriors Gate]]'')
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| ===Taking "the long path"===
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| Some individuals, by necessity, may seek to take what [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] once described as "the long path" ([[DW]]: ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace]]'') spending hundreds of thousands of years patiently waiting to return to a desired time. ([[NA]]: ''[[Birthright]]'') A less arduous method would involve [[cryogenics]] or some other form of life suspension.
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| ==See also==
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| *[[TARDIS]]
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| *[[Temporal paradox]]
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| *[[Gallifreyan history]]
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| *[[Time viewer]]
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| *[[Time-active]]
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| *[[Time-aware]]
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| *[[Ghost Machine]]
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