Potential energy: Difference between revisions

'''Potential energy''' was the energy from possible futures; [[Ace]] stated that potential energy flowed between every point in the [[multiverse]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Life of Crime (audio story)|A Life of Crime]]'')

The [[Weeping Angel]]s fed on the potential energy of an individual, though some used other sources. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of Angels]]''/''[[Flesh and Stone]]'') A Weeping Angel would touch someone, sending them to the past while feeding on the lives they might have had. This led the [[Tenth Doctor]] to describe them as "the only psychopaths in the universe to kill you nicely," since their method of killing was to let their victims "live to death". ([[TV]]: ''[[Blink]]'') Similarly, the [[Oroborus]] turned the planet [[Centauri]] into a [[black hole]] by "siphoning off its future", as [[Alistair Gryffen]] said. ([[TV]]: ''[[Oroborus (TV story)|Oroborus]]'')

[[Peter Hutchings]] explained the theoretical impossibilities of a [[time corridor|time-space corridor]], since vanishing from the material universe would cause a vast energy discharge due to [[conservation of energy]]. [[Time travel]] would be impossible unless somebody could harness a [[black hole]], somehow storing up all the potential energy debt incurred and letting it leak out of the [[event horizon]] as slow dollops of [[Hawking radiation]], which was also impossible. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation]]'')