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I'll explain why I disagree later.
There's also a different non-continuum, counterpart universe called Null-Space (N-Space), which complicates matters because both the Daleks and Time Lords refer to the Void as Null-Space in Gallifrey: Time War.
There's also a different non-continuum, counterpart universe called Null-Space (N-Space), which complicates matters because both the Daleks and Time Lords refer to the Void as Null-Space in Gallifrey: Time War.
- BRIGADIER: Yes... Doctor, what is N Space?
DOCTOR: Well now, the Earth - every world - has a counterpart. They're as close to each other as a pair of clasped hands. In the normal course of events, it's impossible to go there or even to communicate with it because... - JEREMY: ...Because it's in the fourth dimension!
DOCTOR: Young man, a lot of nonsense is talked by a lot of people about the fourth dimension - and the fifth and the sixth and the rest, for that matter.
BRIGADIER: Well, where is it, then? - DOCTOR: Nowhere. Literally. It's a question you can't ask. There's no "where" for it to be. You see, N Space isn't in this Space-Time Continuum at all. That's how it gets its name. It's short for Null-Space.
- SARAH: And that's why we're not aware of it.
- DOCTOR: Yeah, precisely - because of the discontinuity that you might expect between the two worlds, which forms a very effective barrier. It can normally only be crossed by the dying.
- DOCTOR: Yeah, I'll come to that. You see, every sentient being on Earth has an equivalent N Body, coterminous with the ordinary body.
- DOCTOR: Yeah, well, the trouble is, with some people the mind is so attached to the things of Earth that they can't give them up. Well, often they can't even take it in that their Earthly lives are over. So, instead of just passing through, they get stuck in N Space. Some of them even try to get back through the barrier; and if they can find the smallest flaw, they'll come back and try to relive their final moments and make them come right.
- JEREMY: Look at the light - it's like frozen lightning.
- DOCTOR: You're seeing the cracks through the N Space barrier.
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