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Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or spacetime event, provided enough mathematical information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') Artificial intelligences could be made as well. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of 12 people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'') | Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or spacetime event, provided enough mathematical information was supplied. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[TV]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') Artificial intelligences could be made as well. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of 12 people. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'') | ||
[[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer | [[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer, though they were working on technological means to do so, the [[Logopolitan]]s were destroyed before they completed it. As such, organic life forms had to do the work as morphologically unstable living organic matter could handle the stress of reality-changes caused by block transfer mathematics. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud for this reason, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') but there were few others. The correct organic material could be found with [[Gallifrey]], [[Axos]], and possibly even [[Nestene]] matter. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') | ||
== Usage == | == Usage == | ||
The [[Logopolitan]]s were the first to develop Block Transfer Computations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') They used Block Transfer Computations to create a duplicate of the [[Pharos Project]] to maintain the [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment|CVEs]] which prevented [[entropy]] from destroying the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') | The [[Logopolitan]]s were the first to develop Block Transfer Computations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') They used Block Transfer Computations to create a duplicate of the [[Pharos Project]] to maintain the [[Charged Vacuum Emboitment|CVEs]] which prevented [[entropy]] from destroying the [[universe]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') | ||
The [[Time Lord]]s used | The [[Time Lord]]s used block transfer matrixes as a function of maintaining the [[outer plasmic shell]] and interior configurations of [[TARDIS]]es. ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') The [[Eighth Doctor]] used it to design the TARDIS' gardens. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Scaredy Cat]]'') They also used Block Transfer Computations to create duplicates of the [[Eye of Harmony]] to power [[Gallifrey]]an [[TARDIS|timecraft]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'') | ||
Using Block Transfer Computations and [[wormhole]] technology, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was able to connect the inside of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and a safe in which [[Harry Houdini]] was locked inside. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Houdini and The Space Cuckoos (short story)|Houdini and The Space Cuckoos]]'') | Using Block Transfer Computations and [[wormhole]] technology, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] was able to connect the inside of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and a safe in which [[Harry Houdini]] was locked inside. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Houdini and The Space Cuckoos (short story)|Houdini and The Space Cuckoos]]'') | ||
