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From: jeq@laidbak.UUCP (Jonathan E. Quist)
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Subject: Re: why does the TARDIS move?
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Date: Wed, 28-Aug-85 00:47:37 EDT
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In article <684@gitpyr.UUCP> kpk@gitpyr.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
>The TARDIS does not move...It is the rest of reality which is spinning.
>Since your frame of reference is moving it is the TARDIS which appears to move.
>
>The new question is "Why does all of reality spin when the TARDIS is in
>transit?"

Simple.  Our frame of reference relative to the TARDIS is
fixed relative to the studios of the BBC.
The studios of the BBC are securely mounted to the Earth.
The Earth is spinning.

Therefore, given that the TARDIS is absolutely immobile,
and given that the known universe is relatively immobile
relative to the known motion of the Earth, it follows
that the known universe is spinning relative to
the TARDIS, therefore the known universe is
absolutely spinning.

Then, since we know that the TARDIS is not real,
the known universe must be real by default (unless
you insisted that the Earth is real, and the known
universe is not necessarily real), therefore
the known universe is all of reality, therefore
all of reality is spinning.

(Conversely, when the TARDIS is not in transit,
the known universe is not real.)

Jonathan E. Quist
Lachman Associates, Inc.
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``... and a dead shot with a nose laser.''