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Originally Posted by zorcarepublic Ah, I didn't know that. To be honest, I've never heard of Novikov. Did he publish the hypothesis in a journal?
(note: I get really riled up when people mis-use the word theory. Even scientists. Theory, in science, should mean a model of something that has withstood many tests over the years and is an accepted part of the body of science. The Theory of Evolution, for example. But there has been no such tests with regards to time travel, so anything to do with this branch should be hypothesis. Yes, I know Im being pedantic)
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sorry babe, but to my understanding, a theory is just that, a theory. a model is then built or constructed in order to test out this theory and prove or disprove it's effectiveness. eg: a social theory such as that envorionment is key to understaznding of a persons motivations and actions. a model will then be used to prove this theory and its place within our knowledge of the entire social system.
something came up in re-watching a doctor who last night. i'd love some clarification on it. the doctor was the last survivor of the time war, and makes refference to having commited some act which wiped out both sides. should he not therefore have known about the ark? if in fact the ark was from our universe. it did after all come through the void in the void ship which the doctor himself says is beyond known technology. so, those daleks, were they from our universe? or from some parallel universe in which the time war didn't go as well?