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One of the darker aspects of the Doctor's companions is that not everyone is capable of handling the things he shows them, as was the case with one brilliant but somewhat unimaginative physicist who had just published a ground-breaking theory on special relativity and relativity of simultaneity.

The Doctor, after a frustrating hours-long conversation where he tried to explain why the physicist was so COMPLETELY wrong ("...I mean noneuclidean geometry is a perfectly good jumping off point but one has to grow out of that sort of thing EVENTUALLY...") finally took the man with him in the TARDIS to speak to several cosmologists and philosophers in several different eras who got rather closer to the mark. Along the way he also allowed the physicist to study some of the mechanics of the TARDIS itself, just to put everything into context.

The upside to all this was the physicist was enlightened to the myriad possibilities of the space-time continuum. The downside was when he returned to his own time he was quietly committed to a lovely asylum just outside the city. He was perfectly happy there, partly because the staff let him spend his days sitting in the sunlight drawing seemingly nonsensical diagrams in old math books. And partly because he got regular visits from the Doctor, who thought he was ten times more brilliant this way, and much more interesting too.

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A couple collages that didn't start out as a Doctor Who fan piece, but ended up as one anyway. I made the one on top originally, and tried to do a "cleaner" version in a different book. And then couldn't decide which one I liked better (because the messy one seems to have something that the cleaner one is lacking) so I'm posting 'em both.
Old books, maps, magazine pages, onion skin, stamps, gold foil, pen, mod podge.
Wood texture generously provided by [link]

Description
One of the darker aspects of the Doctor's companions is that not everyone is capable of handling the things he shows them, as was the case with one brilliant but somewhat unimaginative physicist who had just published a ground-breaking theory on special relativity and relativity of simultaneity.

The Doctor, after a frustrating hours-long conversation where he tried to explain why the physicist was so COMPLETELY wrong ("...I mean noneuclidean geometry is a perfectly good jumping off point but one has to grow out of that sort of thing EVENTUALLY...") finally took the man with him in the TARDIS to speak to several cosmologists and philosophers in several different eras who got rather closer to the mark. Along the way he also allowed the physicist to study some of the mechanics of the TARDIS itself, just to put everything into context.

The upside to all this was the physicist was enlightened to the myriad possibilities of the space-time continuum. The downside was when he returned to his own time he was quietly committed to a lovely asylum just outside the city. He was perfectly happy there, partly because the staff let him spend his days sitting in the sunlight drawing seemingly nonsensical diagrams in old math books. And partly because he got regular visits from the Doctor, who thought he was ten times more brilliant this way, and much more interesting too.

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A couple collages that didn't start out as a Doctor Who fan piece, but ended up as one anyway. I made the one on top originally, and tried to do a "cleaner" version in a different book. And then couldn't decide which one I liked better (because the messy one seems to have something that the cleaner one is lacking) so I'm posting 'em both.
Old books, maps, magazine pages, onion skin, stamps, gold foil, pen, mod podge.
Wood texture generously provided by [link]