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:::The episode dialogue explains why they can touch. The Doctor changed Kazran so much that he is "not the same man". He has changed to the point where the isomorphic controls no longer recognize him. Therefore he can easily touch his younger self because he has basically regenerated. The same argument can be used to explain how Amy Pond is able to touch her younger self, and Rose Tyler her infant self, because they are no longer the same people once they travel with the Doctor (physically, too, since an episode of ''Torchwood'', [[TW]]: ''[[Meat]]'', establishes that the Doctors' companions are physically altered by travelling in the TARDIS). | :::The episode dialogue explains why they can touch. The Doctor changed Kazran so much that he is "not the same man". He has changed to the point where the isomorphic controls no longer recognize him. Therefore he can easily touch his younger self because he has basically regenerated. The same argument can be used to explain how Amy Pond is able to touch her younger self, and Rose Tyler her infant self, because they are no longer the same people once they travel with the Doctor (physically, too, since an episode of ''Torchwood'', [[TW]]: ''[[Meat]]'', establishes that the Doctors' companions are physically altered by travelling in the TARDIS). | ||
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::::This isn't actually correct, as Rose touching her infant self ''does'' create a paradox. I propose a different explanation: the TARDIS can alter or stabilise paradoxes that are expected (presumably, the Doctor has taken active precautions for this). The main support for this theory is that the Doctor is actively messing around with Kazran's timeline, but there are no side effects of this (the changing of Kazran is intentional, thus not a side effect). The interior of the TARDIS is not present for most of episode in [[DW]]: ''[[Father's Day]]'', after an unexpected timeline change when Rose prevents her father's death. In [[DW]]: ''The Big Bang'' the two versions of Amy have a different personal history with the lack of stars (it's implied that Young Amy can still see them but she is questioned by psychiatrists about them, which doesn't occur in the original timeline; also, it's not known whether her original meeting with the Doctor occurs in this timeline), this is why she can touch her younger self (because they are people with the same genetic makeup, but different personal histories. This also explains why the Blinovitch Limitation Effect does occur with the Sonic Screwdriver, as it's an inanimate object, it does not have an alternate timeline. | |||
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