Timeline for What does the TARDIS pump?
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| Feb 19, 2015 at 16:15 | comment | added | KSmarts | Shouldn't a rotor... rotate? But hey, if you can reverse to polarity of particles that don't have polarity, why not a rotor that goes up and down? | |
| Jul 29, 2014 at 19:59 | comment | added | Darael | We can in fact be pretty sure that it does something useful, as the TARDIS has been grounded more than once when there was a problem specifically with the Time Rotor. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 19:01 | history | edited | calccrypto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | calccrypto | @Hypnosifl I see what you mean. The actual answer is probably "whatever the writer wants the rotor to do" | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 17:20 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | nice job, although I would quibble with the idea that there's any reason to think its movement was a mere "status indicator", as opposed to something more functional. Maybe you got that from the use of "signifying" but I think that was just a word choice of some random wiki editor that you shouldn't read too much into, they may have just meant that the show's designers use it as a signifier of travel to the audience, not that its specific purpose is to "signify" anything to the characters in an in-universe sense. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:54 | history | edited | calccrypto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:39 | comment | added | calccrypto | @Hypnosifl fair enough. I added a bit. From the wiki, it seems like the rotor doesn't really do much | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:35 | history | edited | calccrypto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:32 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | That doesn't really answer the question of "what is pumped". However, there's no real reason to think the up-and-down movement of the time rotor is because it's "pumping" some substance, and there's no mention of such a thing in the fairly extensive "time rotor" article on the Doctor Who wiki: tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Time_rotor ...also as noted in the article, the Rani's TARDIS had a different type of time rotor involving a set of rotating rings (similar to the ones on Krypton in the original Superman movie) that weren't in a tube, so apparently a Time Rotor doesn't need to rise and fall. | |
| Jul 28, 2014 at 16:29 | history | answered | calccrypto | CC BY-SA 3.0 |