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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]]'') | ||
According to Susan Foreman, a time traveller had to be careful when travelling through time lest they jump a time track and wind up in one of their unfulfilled potential futures, unable to properly synchronise with their intended destination. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tick-Tock World (audio story)|Tick-Tock World]]'') | According to [[Susan Foreman]], a time traveller had to be careful when travelling through time lest they jump a time track and wind up in one of their unfulfilled potential futures, unable to properly synchronise with their intended destination. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tick-Tock World (audio story)|Tick-Tock World]]'') | ||
== Physics == | == Physics == | ||
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== Instances == | == Instances == | ||
[[Susan Foreman]] suspected that the echoes who inhabited the [[Tick-Tock World]] were time travellers who had jumped time tracks. An alertnate version of Susan, having lived on the planet for a millennia, learnt how to navigate the time tracks via her consciousness alone. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Tick-Tock World (audio story)|Tick-Tock World]]'') | |||
The [[First Doctor]] jumped a time track in [[the TARDIS]]. The TARDIS seemed to only partially [[materialise]], turning the Doctor and his [[companion]]s into [[ghost]]-like visitants in an [[alternate timeline|alternative future timeline]] in which they had becomes exhibits in the [[Morok]]s' [[Space Museum]] on [[Xeros]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'') | The [[First Doctor]] jumped a time track in [[the TARDIS]]. The TARDIS seemed to only partially [[materialise]], turning the Doctor and his [[companion]]s into [[ghost]]-like visitants in an [[alternate timeline|alternative future timeline]] in which they had becomes exhibits in the [[Morok]]s' [[Space Museum]] on [[Xeros]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Museum (TV story)|The Space Museum]]'') | ||
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The [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] chased a [[Chula ambulance]] through the [[Time Vortex]]. It began jumping time tracks and the Doctor lost it for a while which caused it to jump ahead of the TARDIS. He managed to find where it landed and believed it to only have landed, at maximum, a month before he and Rose arrived. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') | The [[Ninth Doctor]] and [[Rose Tyler]] chased a [[Chula ambulance]] through the [[Time Vortex]]. It began jumping time tracks and the Doctor lost it for a while which caused it to jump ahead of the TARDIS. He managed to find where it landed and believed it to only have landed, at maximum, a month before he and Rose arrived. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'') | ||
The [[Tenth Doctor]] jumped a time track in the TARDIS that allowed him to visit the [[Dalek]] | The [[Tenth Doctor]] jumped a time track in the TARDIS that allowed him to visit the era of the [[Second Dalek War]] before the [[Last Great Time War]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoner of the Daleks (novel)|Prisoner of the Daleks]]'') | ||
== Mentions == | == Mentions == | ||
