Block Transfer Computation: Difference between revisions

Block Transfer Computations could create or re-create any object or spacetime event, provided enough mathematical information was supplied. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') The Computations could also re-create or even duplicate people. [[Adric]], imprisoned by [[the Master]] in a [[hadron web]], created an entire city and its people. ([[DW]]: ''[[Castrovalva (TV story)|Castrovalva]]'') Living creatures, like the [[Ceccec]], could be made using Block Transfer Computation. ([[EDA]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows]]'') Artifical intelligences could be made as well. ([[BFA]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'') Block Transfer Computation could even allow [[time travel]], though it would require a quorum of 12 people. ([[BFA]]: ''[[The Boy That Time Forgot]]'')

[[Computer]]s could not do Block Transfer Computations as the calculations themselves would alter the nature of the computer; organic life forms must do the work. The Monitor's people spoke their computations aloud, for this reason. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') Though they were working on technological means to use Block Transfer Computations, they were destroyed before they completed it. Other civilization that were capable of using Block Transfer Computation include the [[Time Lord]]s, the [[Axos]] and the [[Nestene Consciousness]]. ([[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'')

The [[Time Lord]]s used used Bock Transfer Computations to maintain the [[outer plasmic shell]] and interior configurations and of [[TARDIS]]es. ([[DW]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'', [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'') They also used Block Transfer Computations to create duplicates of the [[Eye of Harmony]] to power [[Gallifrey]]an [[TARDIS|timecraft]]. ([[PDA]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')