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A '''time track''', also called a '''temporal track''' or '''time path''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death]]'') was a path through [[time]] related to a [[time vessel]] or | A '''time track''', also called a '''temporal track''' or '''time path''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Device of Death]]'') was a path through [[time]] related to a [[time vessel]] or traveller. "Jumping" a time track could place a [[time travel]]ler off their intended destination in time, and could even cross their own [[destiny]]. | ||
According to the [[Fifth Doctor]], time tracks were to [[time]] what parallel [[dimension]]s were to [[spacetime]], running side by side like grooves on a record. Travel along the groove and time progressed or regressed in a linear fashion, but skipping a groove meant the distance travelled increased or decreased exponentially. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'') [[Compassion]] considered the record analogy - and by extension the term "skipping a time track" - to be overly simplistic explanations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | According to the [[Fifth Doctor]], time tracks were to [[time]] what parallel [[dimension]]s were to [[spacetime]], running side by side like grooves on a record. Travel along the groove and time progressed or regressed in a linear fashion, but skipping a groove meant the distance travelled increased or decreased exponentially. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Aquitaine (audio story)|Aquitaine]]'') [[Compassion]] considered the record analogy - and by extension the term "skipping a time track" - to be overly simplistic explanations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Brakespeare Voyage (novel)|The Brakespeare Voyage]]'') | ||
