Mavity (term)

Mavity

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Mavity
Type:	Word
Made by:	Isaac Newton
First appearance:	Oodunnit
Appearances:	see list

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

History

Change in history

However, according to later accounts^{[statement unclear]}, when Newton independently 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 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)"])

Usage

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)"])

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

Behind the scenes

• Although the term "mavity" was said by the Fifteenth Doctor in The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], actors Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson were not informed why it was used instead of "gravity" and would not find out until the airdate of Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Loading...["Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)"].