![]() That not only changes the future - it places us all in a timeline that never existed - but does. In his future, he was not around to save some chaps life in a past that also applies to the Doctor - saving him meant that he will save him - and that man will later save Julius Caeser and without him there, Caeser dies ten years before invading Britain. It's different for the Doctor - because he not only travels in time - he's part of history. If a change was made to your timeline, history branches-off from that point onwards - nothing prior to that event is changed. ![]() The reason that "time" - the measuring of passing moments - was messed up by the Doctor not dying is that his death affects both past and future "History" because he is a time-traveller. He could go off and run a boarding-house in Corfu - the time-line would still be intact - as long as people "know" the event happened. In purely historicalterms - he doesn't have to die - people just need to think that he did. However, if everyone believed it did happen - Christianity would then exist and we'd have history as we know it. including "history" as seen from the future")Īs I wrote elsewhere - if "Jesus doesn't die", there is no Christianity so the Roman empire doesn't fall, Britain isn't invaded by Vikings, Saxons and Norman etc - the entire history of the planet changes because that one event doesn't happen. ![]() "Time" in this sense is actually "History" - it's an event that has to happen within the total span of history (i.e. ![]()
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