Time travel

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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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The Doctor time travels. (DW: Day of the Daleks)

Methods

Technological or Biotechnological Methods

By space-time vessel

Travel using time vessel commonly involves the Time Vortex.

Other Technological Means

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)
The column in the center of a Human-built rift manipulator bore a resemblance of the central column a TARDIS, indicating, perhaps, a similar function.
  • A time machine was created by UNIT with the help of Rose Tyler and the unusable TARDIS to send Donna Noble back to set history back on its true course. It was only ever used one time and is presumed erased from history along with the alternate world. (DW: Turn Left)

By Psychic Power or Other Natural Ability

By Space-Time Anomaly

Mirrors

Taking "The Long Path"

Some individuals, by necessity, may seek to take what 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.

See Also

Time travel