Fabric of reality
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"The fabric of reality" was one term used for the substance of the universe.
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A number of accounts also spoke of the "Very Fabric of Time and Space", or "Very Fabric". (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"], etc.)
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The Untempered Schism on Gallifrey was said by the Tenth Doctor to be a "gap" in the fabric of reality through which the whole of the Time Vortex could be seen. Time Lord novices such as the Doctor and the Master were made to look into the Untempered Schism as an act of initiation. (TV: The Sound of Drums [+]Loading...["The Sound of Drums (TV story)"], The End of Time [+]Loading...["The End of Time (TV story)"])
The Tenth Doctor identified the wormholes created by the Stingrays, such as that which connected San Helios to Earth, as a hole in the fabric of reality. (TV: Planet of the Dead [+]Loading...["Planet of the Dead (TV story)"]) He also identified the time fissures created by the Moment as tears in the fabric of reality. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The Eleventh Doctor admitted that time travel was damage, "like a tear in the fabric of reality". Found within the Doctor's TARDIS in a alternate timeline on Trenzalore, the Doctor's time stream was the scar tissue of the Doctor's journey through the universe. (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])
