I was just reading a Potterfic that spent a bit of time talking about how Wizarding trunks and tents were, in the author's words, 'dimensionally trancendental', with the upshot being that they were bigger on the inside than the outside.
Yeah, we all know that, but the phrase 'bigger on the inside than the outside', in close proximity to the concept of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts, got me thinking: could wizards build a TARDIS, or some more primitive version of one?
They could just create the sort of dimensional pocket those trunks and tents used, and link it to an old police call box, which takes care of the size issue. It wouldn't be near-infinite, TARDIS-like space without some Major Hoodoo, but it'd be big enough. Then comes the time issue.
It's a common fan idea in time-travel fics that the amount of mass sent through time directly influences the energy cost of the transit, to the point of making the transit impossible. So what about spells? Does magic have mass? If it doesn't, you could just send a police-box conjuration/transfiguration into the target time, and then just send the dimensional pocket access to that new box, while removing the old one.
The image of a TARDIS knockoff with the central rotor filled with time-turner sand won't get out of my head, and neither will the idea of Arthur Weasely being the reason why the TARDIS controls are so physically impossible for one man to use.--------------------
I'll snap your neck like a tomato!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
Yeah, we all know that, but the phrase 'bigger on the inside than the outside', in close proximity to the concept of Misuse of Muggle Artifacts, got me thinking: could wizards build a TARDIS, or some more primitive version of one?
They could just create the sort of dimensional pocket those trunks and tents used, and link it to an old police call box, which takes care of the size issue. It wouldn't be near-infinite, TARDIS-like space without some Major Hoodoo, but it'd be big enough. Then comes the time issue.
It's a common fan idea in time-travel fics that the amount of mass sent through time directly influences the energy cost of the transit, to the point of making the transit impossible. So what about spells? Does magic have mass? If it doesn't, you could just send a police-box conjuration/transfiguration into the target time, and then just send the dimensional pocket access to that new box, while removing the old one.
The image of a TARDIS knockoff with the central rotor filled with time-turner sand won't get out of my head, and neither will the idea of Arthur Weasely being the reason why the TARDIS controls are so physically impossible for one man to use.--------------------
I'll snap your neck like a tomato!
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.