How Does the TARDIS Work?
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
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The TARDIS is the iconic time machine and spacecraft from the popular sci-fi series Doctor Who. The TARDIS functions by folding space using technology that taps into higher dimensions. But is there any scientific basis for this?
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I love how half of Doctor Who’s lore is reasonable technobabble, while the other half is just throwaway jokes.
alas its just a shame that the actual theoretical physicists saw this episode as word salad with the exception of the Kasimir effect. the quantum vacuum energy paradox, proves only that the calculations in the field equations are wrong and that we currently have nothing to replace it with.
quantum Vaccuum energy contains a minute amount of energy that is spread out over the universe, for a T.A.R.D.I.S to work it would literally have to be feeding off its own big bang caught at the moment before inflation
or Be using some form of Dark Matter as its source (although i do not believe that Dark Matter/ Energy Exists ) but is more along the lines of us recognising an effect for something we have not yet calculated correctly potentially the effect quantum fields have on larger scales
@@nottsork it's not a word salad. It's a word stew 😅
What is more theoretical physics compliant would be using the exterior, the shell, the interface as a doorway only, which you can withdraw from here and put over there, and the interior never really travels anywhere. It is something that is above our dimensions, so it's like us moving a chess piece and thinking about how it looks from the board point of view. Etc.
Doesn't need to fit with our reality. On paper you could math it away, just requires a lot more energy than we could get at a time
Just like Star Trek, then?
That’s why we love it
😂
In the episode Journey’s End, when Donna absorbed 10’s regeneration and became the Doctor Donna, she mentioned to the Doctor that the chameleon circuit could be fixed, before he gives her a disapproving look. This implies that the Doctor intentionally kept the chameleon circuit broken because he liked the look of his Tardis.
That, and the TARDIS itself liking the police box look.
@@nullstudios2989 so she's literally the kind of person to wear the exact same outfit every day (even when someone buys them a really nice suit) and be perfectly content. Fair enough.
It may imply that but he outright says he likes the blue box on a few occasions
The chameleon circuit problem is software, not hardware. Six did fix the hardware, and it changed into a grandfather clock and a pipe organ and a garden gate before turning back into a police box.
The thing is while it was stuck for centuries, it traveled around the universe and wherever it went, there was a police box. Past, future, deep space, quarry, forest, quarry, swamp, quarry, space station, quarry... a police box was there, and blended in okay.
So now the database weightings are heavily skewed, and every time it lands and selects a shape, it goes "police box" based on the cumulative historical information it's collected. And the doctor stopped arguing with it, because he more or less agrees.
You neglected to mention the power source, The Eye Of Harmony. Time travel takes a lot of power, you know
I had a dream about a technology that would make a place seem bigger on the inside by actually shrinking you down to a smaller size, but I suppose that wouldn't explain why everything is the same scale. I really like it when you do other franchises aside from Star Trek. It shows that you have loves for kinds of nerdiness. Keep up the good work.
Great video as usual. Growing up, I had the smallest bedroom in the house. I always wished my bedroom was like the TARDIS, so I could have practically infinite space. 😄
If there's one piece of science that I know, it's the sound of a Tardis with the parking break on
Because the Doctor threw the manual on a black hole.
River Song was wrong - perhaps she was teasing the Doctor. In the War Games the War Chief had given access to Time Lord Tech to create SIDRATS - remote controlled Tardis units which also made the same sound. The Master's Tardis and the Rani's Tardis made the same sound. It was described by the Minyons as a relative continuum stabilizer in materialisation mode.
Then why didn't it make the same sound when River Song materialized it?
@@adamstewart9052it was cloaked when she landed it I believe (pretty sure this was when they landed in the Oval Office). The cloaking mechanism likely quieted the TARDIS
Remember the Enterprise episode Future Tense ? That ship from the future that had extra dimensions inside it. Always thought that was a good episode
Thought about that a lot when I was writing this!
Yeah hey why don't we see that technology in Discovery (I mean, I ..., I don't watch Discovery, but a liberal hippy friend of mine, who also just watched this Orange River video, said that they don't have this technology ...
You mentioning the name of the episode "Future Tense" made me think that Galifreyan language must have a lot of weir times for verbs, like when you are in the present talking of the future that already happened to you because it is in your past, or when you are going to the past but it is your future because you didn't went yet...
Has anyone think that the language with circular writing in Arrival was inspired in Time Lord's language with all those circles?
So much Who-lore to keep track of!
Good job 👍
Thanks Matt!
Great video man. I hope you'll do a deep dive into the Doctor's lore/culture the way you do with other franchises. One thing you forgot to mention about the TARDIS it's name means Time And Retaliative Dimensions In Space. The ships can contain whole solar systems not just rooms. The planets are used to grow food and provide air for the ships the crew. They also act as perpetual motion power sources and batteries.
And the power boost caused by 'ejecting rooms' is simply converting their mass directly to energy.
Time and relative DIMENSION in space 🙄
According to original DW lore (not the timeless child or any book nonsense) Rassilon and Omega created Timelord society. Omega was a stellar engineer who captured a super nova while it was turning into a black hole. He was sucked into the anti-matter universe when this happened. Rassilon took that star and placed it into the 'Eye of Harmony' under the capitol on Gallifrey. This gave the people of Gallifrey endless power. Rassilon then used that power and mastered time travel and dimensional engineering to create a TT Capsule. TT standing for Time Transference. In doing this he created a class of Gallifreyan who became space-time events, these were call Timelords. Not all Gallifreyans are Timelords, nore can they all regenerate.
The groaning noise of the TARDS is actually the Dimensional Stabilizers pulling the ship into or out of our space-time dimension. All TARDISs get their power from the Eye of Harmony. That's why when Gallifrey was not in our universe anymore *Presumed destroyed* the Doctor had to power the TARDIS with rift energy. The link to the Eye of Harmony was broken. Opening the Eye of Harmony link at the center of the TARDIS is not wise.
How are you even able to contemplate these depths of Who? with all the Trek in your head?
A truly powerful individual.
Haha, honestly, I don't know a ton about the universe but wanted to take my crack at the science of this one technology!
@@OrangeRiver maybe it's a bit like how Spanish speakers have an advantage over English speakers, when learning French ☺️
Would love to see more doctor who content
@@subraxas I know it's probably not going to do so well just because the audience size is smaller BUT I LOVE THAT HE MADE THIS ... me madly checking finances for patreon now 🤔
Doctor Who is probably my favorite science fiction properties. I didn't want to watch this video until I had time to focus and take it all in. You did a fantastic job. Fantastic job. Thank you.
Edit. On a side note, I had trouble paying attention to the subject, because I was distracted by how good you looked with the lighting. I had to rewatch it.
The Doctor's explanation that "the TARDIS is dimensionally transcendental" always intrigued me. If we ever figure out how to create artificial worm holes linking two distant points in space (a bit like the ones in the Portal games) then you could create your own TARDIS by simply having one endpoint at the doorway of a normal police box which takes you to the other end where the interior is located.
In my head, I've always imagined the interiors of all the Time Lord's TARDISes to actually be located on Gallifrey, and it's just the endpoint portals that travel about with the TARDIS exterior shell.
You mean, Dr. Woo Hoo! It's Friday, time for an Orange River video and hiding from my work ...
Great video! I'm not totally into Dr. Who, but I know of it and seen it every now and again. I will say that I have a TARDIS on my X-Mas wish list.
I think of the TARDIS as a time machine, space ship, pocket dimension, gateway and techno organic coral all wrapped in one, like some kind of 50th century technology.
That's great! I'd never considered higher dimensions for the interior of the TARDIS.Thats always been a brain teaser for me. It's an eloquent explaination.
Why wouldn't you have thought about that? Time And "Relative Dimension" In Space. It's literally in it's name.
Wasn’t the biggest fan of dr. who, but my sister loved it. The 9th doctor is the best (yes I had to google it) and the weeping angels are cool af!
Tyler, this is so well done. You've appeased even this bitter, cold-hearted Who-fan. 😅
While you are not cold hearted in the style of
EXTERMINATE!
EXTERMINAAAAATEEE!!!!! 🤣
Big Who fan and you did a great job with the TARDIS.
How does the TARDIS work?
"I'll explain later."
Glad to see some Dr Who treatment! Thanks!
my favorite show until capaldi left! Thanks for posting this!
LOVE THAT YOU MADE THIS THANK YOU SO MUCH JUST LOVE DR WHO SO MUCH THAT THE WIBBLY WOBBLY TIMEY WIMEY-ness HAS NEVER BOTHERED ME (like it might for say Star Trek) BUT I LOVE THE EXPLORATION OF THE SCIENCE IN DR WHO AND I CAN'T STOP YELLING COS SO AWESOME!!!!
Perhaps Superman uses his telephone booths for more than just changing his clothes then?!Lol
At the heart of every TARDIS is the Eye of Harmony -- a black hole harnessed with Galifreyian stellar engineering invented by Omega (pronounced Oh-'ma-'ga as a quirk of the show). Omega was pulled into another universe in the process, however Rassallon had a real time feed to the experiment data and was able to duplicate it safely and transport the result to Galifrey. This was still in the earliest days of the universe and the Galifreyians were not yet Time Lords, though it seems to me that the Timeless Child must have already been part of their story as the Other (and later the Doctor). Some of the Galifreyians had merged their DNA with that of the Timeless Child, making them functionally immortal like the Other. It was Rassallon that put a limit on the number of times a Time Lord could regenerate so that they would not become monsters after a great time war in the early days of their history -- after they invented the first TARDIS.
Now according to the mythos of Doctor Who, in order to create a time capsule -- a TARDIS -- it requires their understanding of stellar engineering in order to harness a blackhole to create an Eye of Harmony to act as an eternal and unlimited power source for the ship. With infinite power one is then able to use "block transfer computation" (it's a fictional sort of math that only a few species in the Doctor Who universe can comprehend, but when you master it, your equations become real things) to create the interior of the craft. But it's not in the physical universe, each TARDIS is its own pocket universe with the capsule being its interface with the world. When they travel from place to place, time to time, they enter the Time Vortex (not a time vortex, there is only one). There is actually a rift somewhere on Galifrey into the Time Vortex called the Untempered Schism that young Time Lords must look into as part of their training -- this is what drove the Master mad!
In short, it works by crazy, made-up stuff. Even if it were real, we certainly don't have the science to begin to understand what is described in the show as they make TARDISes. Not to mention the novels from the 90's -- but they aren't canon. LOL!
All that being said, thank you for posting a Doctor Who video. "What's the point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?" 4th Doctor (Tom Baker) in one of his earlier serials. :)
I'd definitely grow a type 40 tardis next to my tomatoes
Thank you wonderful video please keep up your amazing work and leave long and prosper
More Doctor Who please
Woo 400th view!
According to the Fourth Doctor, you just use forced perspective to make the inside bigger
Your videos are so good, that it's easy to forget that this isn't a 500K sub+ channel.
I'd love to at least get to 100k!
How does the TARDIS work? Exactly as well or poorly as required.
Tardises or Tardi?
I love doctor who and this was very informative for a long time fan! One thing that I really dislike about the show is that River thing with the tardis, just that one line ruins that marvelous sound.
At 5:22; I know images like this are shown to help laymen (like myself) to understand that mass/gravity effects space, but I'm sure space isn't full of flat plains intersecting trillions upon trillions of masses out there?
So what would "space" look like (where does it start, the core, surface, 100km up)?
Does mass create gravity or vice versa?
How does mass and/or gravity effect space?
How small of an object be before its gravity can be measured?
Look all I can say is I am in love with all this unbelievably believable technobabble that I can’t follow. And yet I don’t care that I can’t follow. Keep going, brother.
So the engine of the TARDIS uses quantum vacuums to do almost everything it does got it. I thought it could use wormholes to do that stuff but this seems far simpler to make.
I remember in one episode Rassilon was said to harness a black hole to give the Time Lords control over Time. Blame the writers for this. Anyways this gives the impression of some sort of devices sending to Gallifrey the “power” to control the Space-Time continuum. Idk, maybe it’s some kind of Higgs particles beam?
Sometimes the black hole is harnessed near gallefrey and transmitted to each TARDIS. Other times the black hole is actually inside the TARDIS. Search eye of harmony for more info
But the Doctor said him self in _Series 2: Episode 8 - The Impossible Planet_ , "my race practically invented them" to Rose about the Black Hole about the base and Cryptor.
@@kingzaynsmyname3634 Yeah he was being sarcastic about the Hand of Omegas, the stellar manipulator that collapsed the star and created the Eye of Harmony.
Credit to the writers, they came up with the concept of Hawking radiation before he did. The Gallifreyans froze a supernova on the cusp of becoming a black hole in time then allow it to gradually advance while harnessing the energy that escapes from its event horizon to power their whole civilization, every TARDIS contains a dimensional tunnel to the Eye of Harmony and the energy flow is controlled by widening or narrowing the iris.
I forgot that the TARDIS is an acronym. I won't be commenting on this channel again since people can't make comments about other people's thoughts without being condescending or vulger. I just wanted to share my enthusiasm with like minded people.
can you please do a video on morn from ds9 one of my fac characters and never got the recognition he deserved.
Just wait until mall owners get their hands on this tech
I don't think you need to invoke string theory to demonstrate objects with surface areas and volumes that are much larger/smaller than expected. For example, see Gabriel's Horn. Another example is a fractal "line" that has infinite length but finite distance between the starting/ending points (i.e., fractal dimension between 1 and 2).
No, the ability of a Tardis' being larger on the inside than outside is not a form of engineering "beyond our imagination." It's simple: It involves the compression of a dimensional bubble---a Spacetime bubble---within the Spacetime field. The exact method for accomplishing this is at present beyond our current understanding of physics, but, no doubt, someday will be possible to achieve.
I always thought the interior was its own dimension, and the exterior was just the entrance to it. Every time the Tardis travels, it's just materializing the door somewhere else.
The show continues to poke holes in this theory.
The Doctor accidentally leaving the brakes on is kinda in character.
The Doctor can for all practical purposes live forever, has a sentient craft that can go anywhere and anywhen, the Tardis is so large it can store anything, including its pkwer source a star about to vecome a black hole, and with its architectural reconfiguration system it can make anything...
The Doctor travels to relieve boredom, takes along companions to see wonders through fresh eyes... because he's almost always been there before, and since...
One thing for sure is Chrysler/Dodge mastered making the inside smaller than one would have expected.
3:07 no, the deletion of rooms does not in itself cause "momentum" but rather the rooms are converted to energy which then is comverted into thrust to quote from Catrovalva, the first story to introduce this idea
"TEGAN: Delete them? You mean zap?
DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. Zap! Enough zap and you have your thrust."
A geodesic is a line of shortest distance. On a sphere, the longitude lines are geodesics but the latitude lines are not. On a globe, stretch a line from New York City to Rome, Italy. They are at about the same latitude but the shortest distance when we tighten the string will not be along the latitude line. It will show a geodesic.
I don't buy the "parking brake" reason for the sound. For one it's iconic, for another other TARDISes in the series make that noise so apparently the Master and the Rani leave the parking brake on as well, and I...just have a personal bias against River Song.
River mercilessly teases the Doctor, especially Ten in their Big Finish encounters.
@@TonksMoriarty She's also admitted to swiping the TARDIS when the Doctor is out, hiding booze in the round things, and shooting the Doctor's hats. Even that time 11 wore a Stetson. Who does that? I feel sorry for 4 given he wears a hat. As a fellow hat lover, what's her #@$$#@$ issue with hats?
Trying to outsmug the Doctor doesn't endear her to me, either, especially in the first meeting. "Oh let me bring up how I know him even though he can't know why yet while we're in this great peril and my friends are dying." It's bad enough when 10 does that stuff. (I hate Tooth & Claw the way others hate Love & Monsters.)
@@ShadowWingTronix Big Finish has done so much for her it's incredible. I highly recommend at least the first 4 boxsets.
The noise is the sound of the TARDIS tearing a hole in space time to enter and leave the vortex. This is never explained in the show, only in the special features on the beginning boxset DVD
@@Maxwell-237 Yeah, I have that DVD set.
Uuugh it's Friday! I'm 2 minutes late!!!! 😬😂😂😂😂
These are like type 3 civilization technologies at the very least.
This was basically gibberish to me, but I loved it anyways 🙃 amazing.
Except the promise of breaking the rules of physics, since that's my postgrad, quantum stuff... 🤔
I just like the much simpler idea that they only made one, shifted it into an infinite set of time frames and sort of... Move the door around. 😁
As I've seen it explained the Tardis interior is a pocket dimension encapsulated within the outer plasmic shell, as in the exterior is a "door' to an inner (much larger, possibly infinite) seperate space and the two are "grafted" together. Obviously though in decades on the air and tons of secondary media various "explanations" have been proposed.
I make that noise when struggling up the stairs to get to the bathroom.
Risking being redundant everyone know its a wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. I love Doctor Who because they didn't ever try to explain most of the tech, they made up explanations just for us to laugh, like when Tom Baker explains to Leela why Tardis is bigger on the inside, it is believable and absurd at the same time. So no fan will obsess about the consistency of the internal layout of the Tardis like Start Trek fans do.
It works by "wibbly wobbly, timey wimey stuff" according to The Doctor and that's good enough for me.
His explanation is demonstrably false. All Dr. Who fans know that the Tardis functions by utilizing the Wibbly Wobbly Timey Whimey nature of the universe.
"Timey-Whimey?"
As far as Tardises go, the Doctor's is a rusty oldtimer, that's why it can't change shape on the outside anymore and and makes such a noise. And all the tinkering of the 3rd and 4th Doctors on it didn't make things any better 😄
Are Thay really bigger in the inside or are Thay iust smaller on the outside ?
Gabriels horn. Thank you. Thats an excellent example.
Matt Smith and Ecclston my favorite
Yay! Do more Who vids please? K, thx! This one was great btw.
🖖
Thank you
Right I’m confused because the tardis aka David tenants one is a hexagonal shape inside meaning 8 people should be in there but why does it need 6 pilots was it built for 6 time lords ??
Timey whimey
I really enjoyed this. The show is shlocky and often lazy with writing but you took all the major TARDIS lore and features in order to have a serious discussion. I'm designing a TARDIS myself in a video game and can't bring myself to do so without theorising on the details of its functionality.
What, explaining the working of the TARDIS and not mentioning the Eye of Harmony (preserving a dying star on the cusp of becoming a black hole and harnessing Hawking Radiation (A narrative element conceived before the concept even existed in physics!) to power their whole civilization) and the Web of Time, a construct imposed on the early universe by the Timelords that created causality anchored to fixed points in time and the pathways of which a TARDIS followed to achieve time travel and long distance travel (the branching tunnels the Tardis is often seen flying through)
The music fits perfectly. Whats it called?
The Holfix track is "Mystery," and the rest are by Sam Kužel!
universe
Why does the ship at 1:25 look kind of like an armless Chandelure?
If my wife had a Tardis, it would be chock full of clothes and Lego. She hoards both!
As Mr. Spock would say, fascinating....
TARDIS stands for:
Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
And then the 13th doctor destroys one of these hard to come by sentient beings to kill some daleks
Impressive...
The type 40 model has a known defect in the chameleon circuit that means in more than 50% of first materialisations the adopted disguise becomes locked to the circuit pathway. Obviously this was corrected in later models. Ha ha. Only a madman would fly a T40.
Also, the T40 needs 6 pilots to fly correctly. Imagine one person doing it alone. Lmao
Um... some idiot just stole a T40
Not one mention of applied phlebotinum, macguffin, hand waving? _scoffing noise_
So timely wirey stuff
4:28 Vortices, not vortexes.
there were 6 fat ducks that I once knew... 😉
he lied the circit isnt truely broekn if it was broken it still look like the tardis from 1966 but it changes with each doctor so its broken where it cant change but fixed enough that it updates the model
You hang it from a piece of string and twizzle it around. Well, it works for me. 😁
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According to Captain Jack Harkness TARDISes also take a minimum of five hundred years to grow.
Right now and for the past twenty odd years the Tardis hasn't worked nor have those inside or outside of it!
yep, got it
Shouldn't the TARDIS be considered a Dyson sphere?
T.A.R.D.I.S.
Time. And. Relative. Dimension. In. Space.
The TARDIS stole The Doctor.
doaremon pocket
Bartemius Crouch Jr. was the best Dr. 😝
However the plot needs it to
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Listen man, I need to build a real working TARDIS, at very least it needs to be bigger on the inside than it is on the outside.
At least 30' x 30', by 10 feet tall on the inside, yet only 5 feet by 5 feet, and 6 feet tall on the outside.
I need to finish building it within two weeks, and for less than $300.