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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 | 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 twelve 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. 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]]'') | [[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]]'') | ||
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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]]'') | ||
The [[Fifth Doctor]] attempted to use Block Transfer Computation to locate the TARDIS when it was stolen by Thomas Brewster. However, because off the Doctor's subconscious guilt over the recent death of his companion Adric, he inadvertently sleep walked through time to the moment of his death and helped Adric use the computations to land the Freighter he was about to crash into Earth, creating an alternative timeline. ([[AUDIO]]:''[[The | The [[Fifth Doctor]] attempted to use Block Transfer Computation to locate the TARDIS when it was stolen by Thomas Brewster. However, because off the Doctor's subconscious guilt over the recent death of his companion Adric, he inadvertently sleep walked through time to the moment of his death and helped Adric use the computations to land the Freighter he was about to crash into Earth, creating an alternative timeline. ([[AUDIO]]:''[[The Boy That Time Forgot (audio story)|The Boy That Time Forgot]]'') | ||
[[The Remote]] were known to use Block Transfer Computations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') The Remote receiver of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Compassion]] also unintentionally processed the signals she received from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] into Block Transfer Computations, resulting in Compassion mutating into a [[Type 102]] [[TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'') | [[The Remote]] were known to use Block Transfer Computations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One]]'') The Remote receiver of the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s companion [[Compassion]] also unintentionally processed the signals she received from [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] into Block Transfer Computations, resulting in Compassion mutating into a [[Type 102]] [[TARDIS]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon]]'') | ||
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The [[Unthinkable City]] was created by Mr [[Qixotl]] using [[block transfer computation]] and [[matter augmenter]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | The [[Unthinkable City]] was created by Mr [[Qixotl]] using [[block transfer computation]] and [[matter augmenter]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | ||
[[pt:Cálculo de Transferência em Bloco]] | [[pt:Cálculo de Transferência em Bloco]] | ||
[[Category:Theories and concepts]] | [[Category:Theories and concepts]] | ||
[[Category:Mathematics]] | [[Category:Mathematics]] | ||
