Why Is The Tardis Bigger On The Inside?
Saturday, July 30th, 2011
To the uninitiated the Tardis is just a blue box with the warm, friendly, and official looking sign “Police Call Box” emblazoned, in lights, on all sides. To the fan, The Tardis is short for “Time and Relative Dimension in Space” and its way,way more than just a Blue Box. Today we will explore the most obvious and endearing quality of this most peculiar object.
The very first words uttered, muttered or mouthed by stupefied first time visitors to Dr Who’s box are, invariably, “Its bigger on the inside” to which the Doctor or a random Companion (assistant is no longer PC enough for the BBC) responds, invariably, “it’s dimensionally transcendental.”
Dimensionally Transcendental indeed. But what does that mean and is it possible? Do the laws of physics allow for that particular conceit. Well, Yes. The ridiculously Weird Science of Modern Physics allows even this far fetched premise. There are many ways to achieve this. We will explore but a few.
First, and easiest for our trusty Time Lord to achieve would be a simple, Space-Time projection. The Tardis’ interior might just be in a distant part of the universe and the doorway that connects the police box exterior might just be a straight forward, yet impossibly difficult to achieve, Einstein-Rosen Bridge, better known as a wormhole. This means that when the Tardis Materializes and dematerializes, in fact the only thing changing location, not necesarily moving, is the access point. This acces point in Space (and time) is the wormhole’s entrance in disguise as a Blue, circa 1954, Police Box. The interior of the Tardis is safely stowed away at that “undisclosed location” far, far away. The Physics of wormholes is well known and all that the Galifreyans need wrestle up is just a bit of exotic matter to keep the portal from collapsing. That should not be difficult even for the most daft of Rassilon’s brood.
Even more Tardis speculation AFTER THE JUMP!
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