Chapter 5

I'm a genius, seriously I could give Einstein a run for his money.

In case you're wondering why I'm being so self congratulatory, I've just come up with a plan of action. When I first realized I was in the whoniverse , I thought that everything was already set in stone, that any one change could cause ripples in the timeline and endless paradoxes in its wake. So I began my self-imposed exile in a misguided desire to protect the abstract noun that is the timeline.

If Donna turning left caused the doctor to die then what kind of havoc could I wreak?

The only problem with that train of thought is that it doesn't make sense from a theoretical physics point of view. I couldn't cause a paradox, a paradox is simply a kink in the logic and fabric of the universe that can't naturally resolve itself.

A good example of that would be the grandfather paradox. A time traveler goes back in time and kills his grandfather when he was a baby but that means that the time traveler wasn't born in the first place so how does he kill his grandfather?

That's all that paradoxes are, a glitch in the matrix , a fly in the ointment .

Since all of my knowledge of the Doctor Who universe is from a different reality , it's not subject to this world's laws so hypothetically I can change the events of this world without causing a paradox. But I have to go in a specific order and cross over my timeline if things go awry.

For example if I saw River Song in The Library arc that doesn't necessarily mean I didn't save her later from being kidnapped as a baby, it just means in the future I'm going to have to bring her there and tell her how she needs to act and what happens in that episode. It's very timey wimey and complicated but it works , in a very roundabout sort of way.

The real question is how the fuck do I get of this bloody planet and get myself some time travel gear.