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[taleya]

....Someone on TV tropes described the TARDIS as "a whole lot bigger". In fact, it "could be mall-sized. "


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Comments

[unspeakablevorn.livejournal.com]

What, that's it?

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Someone doesn't have sufficient imagination. (I like to think it CONTAINS a mall. Somewhere. Where everything is just a little bit off from Earth-normal.)

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

There's a lot of ambiguity about the size of the TARDIS interior. Dozens of rooms have been seen or described, but it's reconfigurable, so the rooms may be virtualised until actually visited.

Its internal mass was described as fifty thousand tonnes in the era of the Fifth Doctor, but after infection by the Faction Paradox virus, a 1:1 mapping of its interior was larger than all of Gallifrey. Again, though, this could have been a display of all possible rooms, rather than how many were generally actualised at any given time.

My guess is that given the virtualisation aspects and dimensional control of the TARDIS, there's as much 'volume' inside it as it deems necessary to actualise at any given point, ten to a hundred kilotons of dimensionally-displaced real-universe mass, and as much virtual mass as it cares to sustain using dimensional calculations.

Personally, I'd like to see more four-dimensional architecture in the TARDIS interior. Things like flat doorways and portals which lead to different places each time, or galleries of same as a kind of central index.