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'''Morphic fields and the Humanoid Form'''
'''Infinite Temporal Flux'''


Morphic fields are an obscure offshoot of biology. All living beings have a field associated with them which defines their entire biology. The morphic fields provide a force that guides the development of an organism as it grows, making it take on a form similar to that of others in its species. DNA is not the source of structure itself, but rather a receiver that translates instructions in the field into physical form. The morphic fields are reinforced by every successive generation. That is why there are so many humanoid species in the universe. Gallifreyans were the first sentient organic lifeforms to evolve in this universe, and thus created a morphic field of their external physical form. That morphic field resonated across the universe, making it more probable that through parallel evolution the next sentient race to evolve would be humanoid, and that made it much more likely that the next race would be humanoid, and so on. Many humanoid species (e.g. Humans) are outwardly indistinguishable from Gallifreyans. The reason they are so astonishingly similar to the Gallifreyan race is because the Gallifreyan form represents the basic way that evolution most likely takes for the dominant mammalian race on an average Gallifrey-like planet under the influence of the Gallifreyan morphic field and the humanoid races similar but not identical to Gallifreyans developed under very specific and usually unique environmental conditions. The majority of the non-humanoid sentient races developed in environments where two legs, two arms and a head would have been a positive handicap.
Time has several natural defenses against paradoxes. The first is just the fact that it's extremely difficult to change the past. Most of the time, you go back in time because you were meant to, and whatever you do is just what already occurred. Changing things is hard, but it is possible. The second defense is the "infinite temporal flux." The mechanics of the infinite temporal flux functions wherein time essentially 'absorbs' the paradox. An altered future essentially of fades away. The thing about the infinite temporal flux is that it's not a very large infinity. It can absorb paradox to an extent, but there's a threshold where it can't take any more. A temporal paradox of sufficient size will create a kind of "wound" in time. That's when time's own sort of immune system kicks in. Creatures known as "reapers" arrive from the Time Vortex, flood in and sterilize the wound, destroying both the source of the paradox and everything else in the vicinity. Once the cause of the paradox has been removed, things generally go back to normal. Back when the Time Lords were still around, it was pretty easy to keep things in order, since they were actively out there helping to repair paradox and keeping the universe running.

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Infinite Temporal Flux

Time has several natural defenses against paradoxes. The first is just the fact that it's extremely difficult to change the past. Most of the time, you go back in time because you were meant to, and whatever you do is just what already occurred. Changing things is hard, but it is possible. The second defense is the "infinite temporal flux." The mechanics of the infinite temporal flux functions wherein time essentially 'absorbs' the paradox. An altered future essentially of fades away. The thing about the infinite temporal flux is that it's not a very large infinity. It can absorb paradox to an extent, but there's a threshold where it can't take any more. A temporal paradox of sufficient size will create a kind of "wound" in time. That's when time's own sort of immune system kicks in. Creatures known as "reapers" arrive from the Time Vortex, flood in and sterilize the wound, destroying both the source of the paradox and everything else in the vicinity. Once the cause of the paradox has been removed, things generally go back to normal. Back when the Time Lords were still around, it was pretty easy to keep things in order, since they were actively out there helping to repair paradox and keeping the universe running.

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