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The [[Sixth Doctor]] described there being trillions and trillions of alternate dimensions, some of which could be infinitesimally small micro-universes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Macros]]'') However, the [[Seventh Doctor]] later commented that one billion cubic centimetres was small in terms of a dimension's size. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') | The [[Sixth Doctor]] described there being trillions and trillions of alternate dimensions, some of which could be infinitesimally small micro-universes. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Macros]]'') However, the [[Seventh Doctor]] later commented that one billion cubic centimetres was small in terms of a dimension's size. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End]]'') | ||
[[Time]] was often considered by [[human]]s to be the "fourth dimension" ([[TV]]: | [[Time]] was often considered by [[human]]s to be the "fourth dimension" ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]") and [[Vicki Pallister]] later elaborated that time, even though a dimension in itself, had dimensions of its own. The [[First Doctor]] even stated, in their adventure at the time, that he did not understand "''this''" fourth dimension. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum]]'') Different universes possessed different time dimensions. Time moved faster in [[Capron]]'s universe, requiring metabolisms to be altered so as to prevent rapid aging when travelling to it from N-space. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Macros]]'') | ||
According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the [[Boneless]] were "from a universe with only two dimensions", although the Doctor also described them as "creatures from another dimension" and mentioned a way of sending them "back to their own dimension". People in N-Space, where three dimensions were required for life to survive there, had theorised such a universe's existence, but according to the Doctor, "no-one could go there and prove its existence without a heck of a [[diet]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') | According to the [[Twelfth Doctor]], the [[Boneless]] were "from a universe with only two dimensions", although the Doctor also described them as "creatures from another dimension" and mentioned a way of sending them "back to their own dimension". People in N-Space, where three dimensions were required for life to survive there, had theorised such a universe's existence, but according to the Doctor, "no-one could go there and prove its existence without a heck of a [[diet]]". ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') | ||
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{{quote|When the universe was created, dimensions started to solidify out of the primal chaos [...] And in the aftermath of [[Event Zero]], eleven dimensions did fight for existence. Five were triumphant - together they did become the three dimensions of space, and the two dimensions of time through which we travel. But the remaining six dimensions did still exist: although beaten, although denied their dominance, they curled and curdled amongst themselves to become a six-fold universe, separate yet conjoined.|[[The Quantum Archangel]]}} | {{quote|When the universe was created, dimensions started to solidify out of the primal chaos [...] And in the aftermath of [[Event Zero]], eleven dimensions did fight for existence. Five were triumphant - together they did become the three dimensions of space, and the two dimensions of time through which we travel. But the remaining six dimensions did still exist: although beaten, although denied their dominance, they curled and curdled amongst themselves to become a six-fold universe, separate yet conjoined.|[[The Quantum Archangel]]}} | ||
The first three were required to sustain native life forms such as [[human]]s and [[Time Lord]]s. As the [[Twelfth Doctor]] theorised, "Perhaps [the [[Boneless]] didn't] even understand that we need[ed] three dimensions to live in." ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') While these made up space in the physical sense, time was considered to be the fourth dimension and [[space]] the fifth. ([[TV]]: | The first three were required to sustain native life forms such as [[human]]s and [[Time Lord]]s. As the [[Twelfth Doctor]] theorised, "Perhaps [the [[Boneless]] didn't] even understand that we need[ed] three dimensions to live in." ([[TV]]: ''[[Flatline (TV story)|Flatline]]'') While these made up space in the physical sense, time was considered to be the fourth dimension and [[space]] the fifth. ([[TV]]: "[[An Unearthly Child (episode)|An Unearthly Child]]") Since space and time came into being at the same moment ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Forbidden Time]]'') they were intrinsically linked, and often thought of {{by whom}} as the combined [[space-time continuum]]. {{fact}} | ||
Alternatively, access to the "fifth dimension" was equated as being access to [[time travel]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio story)|Mission to Magnus]]'') while another {{what?}} referenced the universe as having seven concealed dimensions, "the intermediate dimensions," which held space together. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hollows of Time]]'') After the bite of a [[Vortisaur]] aged the skin of [[Peter Rathbone]]'s forearm to that of a sixty-year old, the [[Eighth Doctor]] described the [[Vortisaur]]s, who were native to the [[Time Vortex]], as "five dimensional predators [who] make five dimensional bite marks". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') | Alternatively, access to the "fifth dimension" was equated as being access to [[time travel]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Mission to Magnus (audio story)|Mission to Magnus]]'') while another {{what?}} referenced the universe as having seven concealed dimensions, "the intermediate dimensions," which held space together. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Hollows of Time]]'') After the bite of a [[Vortisaur]] aged the skin of [[Peter Rathbone]]'s forearm to that of a sixty-year old, the [[Eighth Doctor]] described the [[Vortisaur]]s, who were native to the [[Time Vortex]], as "five dimensional predators [who] make five dimensional bite marks". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'') | ||
