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== History ==
== History ==
=== Change in history ===
=== Change in history ===
However, according to later accounts{{what}}, when Newton independently formed his concept of gravity in [[1666]], after an apple fell on his head while he was pondering under a tree, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed into the tree above him, and [[Donna Noble]], despite the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s initial attempts to stop her before he joined in, made a joke concerning the "gravity of [their] situation". After the TARDIS took off again, Newton grew confused and misremembered the "delightful word" they had said as "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) causing the term "gravity" to seemingly be retroactively erased from history and replaced by the word "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) though the Doctor at least momentarily retained his knowledge of the original word. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})
However, according to later accounts{{what}}, when Newton independently formed his concept of gravity in [[1666]], after an apple fell on his head while he was pondering under a tree, [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] crashed into the tree above him, and [[Donna Noble]], despite the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s initial attempts to stop her before he joined in, made a joke concerning the "gravity of [their] situation". After the TARDIS took off again, Newton grew confused and misremembered the "delightful word" they had said as "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}) causing the term "gravity" to seemingly be retroactively erased from history and replaced by the word "mavity", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}}) though the Fourteenth Doctor at least momentarily retained his knowledge of the original word. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})


Other terms were also impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "mavitational field". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})
Other terms were also impacted, such as the Doctor's usage of "mavitational field". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}})
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