I've said it before and I'll say it again, Doctor Who is my favorite show on television and lately I have been intrigued with how it handles Time travel. For those of you who don't know, Doctor Who is a British show about an alien being called the Doctor who travels through time and space and runs into trouble were ever he goes. He finds aliens who have distorted the time line by taking on human form and interacting with humans, or by introducing technology that we shouldn't have, among other things, and the Doctor sets things right wherever he goes. The place that I'm going is this idea of a being existing outside of time. We often say that God exists outside of time, but often I don't think that we can wrap our minds around this, I can't at least, but looking at time through the eyes of the Doctor it's almost as if for him going to the year 1599 is kind of like going to Sioux Falls or something. Instead of thinking of him as traveling through time, as if it were impossible, I find it easier to think of time more as a road map and the Doctor just goes from one town to another. For a being such as this it seems impossible to screw up the "Space Time Continuum" because that straight line view of time is blasted apart when thinking about it in this way. Just something kind of cool to think about.
Labels: "Doctor Who" and Time Travel

