N-Space
Normal Space, usually referred to as N-Space for short, was the name given to the prime universe to distinguish it from the smaller E-Space. All but a few of the Doctor's adventures took place in N-Space.
Properties
Entropy
Because of entropy, N-Space should have ceased to exist as a result of heat death some time before the 20th century in the Humanian Era, if not for the Logopolitans. The Logopolitans used Block Transfer Computations to create the CVEs to vent entropy from N-Space into E-Space. (TV: Logopolis) Sometimes the CVEs also allowed physical objects to travel from N-Space into E-Space. (TV: Full Circle)
Co-ordinates
Unlike E-Space, which used coordinates with a negative value, relative to the navigational system of the Doctor's TARDIS, N-Space used positive coordinates. The Fourth Doctor suggested, then, that N-Space was a positive universe and E-Space its negative counterpart.
The TARDIS scanner continued to show images of N-Space even after materialising on Alzarius, which had the same co-ordinates as Gallifrey, though reversed. The Doctor suggested that, rather than relaying visual information, the scanner operated off the absolute value of the co-ordinates and could not process negative coordinates. The scanner system was made functional by replacing its original N-Space image translator with one native to E-Space. (TV: Full Circle)
The Gateway, whose co-ordinates had a zero value (neither positive nor negative) served as a place of transit between N-Space and E-Space. (TV: Warriors' Gate)
Transit points
Aside from the Gateway, objects could have passed from N-Space to E-Space through a CVE, as did the Doctor's TARDIS. (TV: Full Circle) The Great Vampire travelled to E-Space from N-Space by means unknown, as did the human ship, the Hydrax. The Doctor surmised that the Hydrax was intentionally brought into E-Space by the Great Vampire. (TV: State of Decay)
Notes
- Alternate universes to the main universe of N-Space also exist, as well as various pocket universes. These do not appear to have had negative co-ordinates.
- The Doctor used the formal designation Exo-Spacetime Continuum to refer to E-Space, implying that N-Space might have the name of Normal Spacetime Continuum.
- The name N-Space was also used as the designation for another dimension whose spectral inhabitants attempted to invade Earth. (AUDIO: The Ghost of N-Space)
