Phi

Golden ratio

The golden ratio, otherwise known as the Divine Proportion or Phi, is a mathematical ratio with special properties and aesthetic significance. An enormous number of things in the universe are engineered around the ratio, ranging from the human body to the ark of the covenant to snail shells to the orbits of the planets. Some argue that the prevalence of the Golden Ratio is positive evidence of a common design plan uniting a wide variety of phenomena which share only their creator in common.

Calculating

Phi is derived by dividing a line segment into two parts in such a way that the ratio of the smaller segment to the larger segment is the same as the ratio of the large segment to the whole. 

The number is irrational, meaning it never ends or repeats in a decimal system. To the first ten decimals, it is 1.6180339887 ...

A golden rectangle is one in which the ratio of length to height is 1:phi.

The divine ratio also makes an appearance in the Fibonacci sequence. The fibonacci sequence is derived by starting with 0 and 1, and then calculating the next number in the sequence by adding the last two together. Thus the sequence is 0, 1, 1 (0+1), 2(1+1), 3(1+2), 5(2+3), 8(3+5) and so on. The ratio of a number to the previous number in the sequence approximates the golden ratio, and comes to approximate it more closely as the values increase. Thus:

8/5 = 1.6

144/89 = 1.6179775280

10946/6765 = 1.6180339985

Examples

Because Phi is irrational, it is impossible for anything to measure at "precisely" the golden ratio. However, a large number of things approximate the golden ratio to a startling degree.

Architecture

The divine ratio and golden rectangles appear throughout ancient architecture and art. It was believed to be the most aesthetically pleasing and harmonious means of design. Statistical analysis seems to indicate that "people involuntarily give preference to proportions that approximate to the Golden Section." The Oxford Companion to Art, Ed. Harold Osbome, First Edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978, p.489.

• Egyptian pyramids were designed with reference to the golden ratio. Slant height / distance from center to perimeter = Phi;
• Greek Parthenon designed and constructed out of golden rectangles;
• Modern credit cards are golden rectangles;
• The painting, The Last Supper, is based on the golden ratio;
• The Notre Dame cathedral in Paris is based on the golden ratio;

In Genesis 6:15, God commanded Noah to build an ark saying, "And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits." The end of the ark is thus in a ratio of 5:3. Both are fibonacci numbers, thereby approximating phi at 1.667, so close as to be indistinguishable to the eye.

In Exodus 25:10, God commands Moses to build the Ark of the Covenant, in which to hold His Covenant with the Israelites, the Ten Commandments, saying, "Have them make a chest of acacia wood- two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit and a half high." 2.5/1.5 or 5/3 (a fibonacci relationship) = 1.667, again approximating Phi so closely as to be indistinguishable to the eye.

Biology

Humans

• The human head forms a golden rectangle;.
• The mouth and nose are each placed at golden sections of the distance between the eyes and the bottom of the chin.
• Whole body height / head to fingertips = Phi;
• Top of head to fingertips / head to navel and elbows = Phi;
• Top of head to navel and elbows / head to pectorals and inside top of arms = Phi;
• Top of head to navel and elbows / width of shoulders = Phi;
• Top of head to navel and elbows / length of forearm = Phi;
• Top of head to navel and elbows / length of shinbone = Phi;
• Top of head to pectorals / top of head to base of skull = Phi;
• Top of head to pectorals / width of abdomen = Phi;
• Length of Forearm / length of hand = Phi;

DNA

Each cycle of the DNA molecule measures 34 angstoms long by 21 angstroms wide. 34 and 21 are fibonacci numbers, as noted above. 34/21 is 1.619, approximating phi. Jean-claude Perez suggests there is a strong link between DNA and golden ratio in 1991, then again in 1997 in his book l'ADN décrypté. In this work, he shows that relative proportions of nucleotides within coding DNA sequences like genes or RNA strings are governed by specific Fibonacci and Lucas numbers sets. This discovery was validated particularly on all known HIV and SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) retroviruses whole genomes with Professor Luc Montagnier (the discoverer of HIV virus) which called the discovery a "DNA supracode" . 

DNA supracode is revealed by computing sets called "resonances" within any DNA sequence: specific nucleotides clusters like FFF (Fibonacci Fibonacci Fibonacci), LLL (Lucas Lucas Lucas), FFL (Fibonacci Fibonacci Lucas) or LFF (Lucas Fibonacci Fibonacci). An example of elementary FFF resonance: 144 contiguous TCAG bases contain exactly 55 bases T and 89 bases A or C or G. This kind of screening is processed along the DNA sequence, for all possible Fibonacci/Lucas combinations, and for all possible values (example here 144 89 and 55 are 3 consecutive Fibonacci numbers). Then there appear lots of "resonances". For example, in HIV whole genome, long of about 9000 bases, there are more than 50000 significant Fibonacci/Lucas resonances. The longer resonances (several hundred resonances) are overlapping about 2/3 of the whole HIV genome (6765 bases which is a Fibonacci number). 

Then, to explore both aesthetics and Ethics dimensions of this discovery, Perez published in 1994 an audio CD entitled "the first music of genes" - SACEM GEN0694 - (a subset of supracode for the oncogene KIRAS involved in cancers)... 

And also in 1995 sone thinkings related to Ethics of a discovery .

In 2008 Jean-claude Perez is publishing proofs on evidence of Golden ratio based rules at all levels of Life information: bioatoms, DNA, RNA amino acids or whole genomes 

Particularly he will publish a central book entitled " CODEX BIOGENESIS: les 13 CODES de l'ADN " (spring 2009) .

Human Genome

The book CODEX BIOGENESIS show that the whole Human Genome is controled by two BINARY CODES ATTRACTORS which provide a kind of self-organized bistable binary code like in computers.[1]

With the central following difference - the binary code within computers was invented artificially by humans and yet the binary code of Life has either “emerged” spontaneously perhaps by self-organization or was the intentional act of divine creation.

The ratio between both bistable states is exactly equal to “2” (the space between two consecutives octaves in Music...)

• The Top state is exactly matching with a GOLDEN RATIO...
• The Bottom state is also exactly related to Golden Ratio... 
• “Top” level = = 1 / Phi 
• “Bottom” level = 1 / 2 Phi 
• Top / Bottom = 2

Where Phi is the "Golden Ratio"

In 2009 new proofs were provided on the human Fractal Genomephysical and logical structure.

Other life

• The bodies of dolphins are defined by the golden ratio
• The bodies of ants are defined by the golden ratio
• Snail shells and many seashells are golden spirals, that is, a spiral formed by making successively smaller golden rectangles.
• In plants, petals, leaves, sections, and seeds, pinecones, pineapples and sunflowers all exhibit fibonacci numbers; 
• Fruit seeds form in golden spirals.

Astronomy

• Golden ratio in the planets: The orbital periods, mean distances, and orbital velocities of the planets in the solar system are all related by phi to a statistical significance of over 99%.
• The rings of Saturn form two golden sections, divided by the Cassini division.
  

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SATURN

Don't go wasting your emotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go sharing your devotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go wasting your emotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go sharing your devotion

Lay all your love on me

Don't go wasting your emotion

What Things Are Saturnine, 

or Under the Power of Saturn.

Saturnine things, amongst Elements, are earth and also water; amongst humors, black choler that is moist, as well natural as adventitious (adust choler excepted). 

Amongst tastes, sour, tart, and dead-like. Amongst metals, lead, and gold, by reason of its weight, and the golden marcasite. 

Amongst stones, the onyx, the ziazza, the camonious, the sapphire, the brown jasper, the chalcedon, the loadstone, and all dark, weighty, earthy things. 

Amongst plants and trees, the daffodil, dragon's-wort, rue, cummin, hellebore, the tree from whence benzoin comes, mandrake, opium, and those things which are never sown, and never bear fruit, and those which bring forth berries of a dark color and black fruit, as the black fig-tree, the pine-tree, the cypress-tree, and a certain tree used at burials, which never springs afresh with berries, rough, of a bitter taste, of a strong smell, of a black shadow, yielding a most sharp pitch, bearing a most unprofitable fruit, never dies with age, deadly, and dedicated to Pluto. 

As is the herb pas-flower, * with which they were wont, anciently, tostrow the graves before they put the dead bodies into them; wherefore it was lawful to make their garlands at feasts with all herbs and flowers besides pas-flowers, because it was mournful and not conducing to mirth. 

Also all creeping animals, living apart, and solitary, nightly, sad, contemplative, dull, covetous, fearful, melancholy, that take much pains, slow, that feed grossly, and such as eat their young. 

Of these kinds, therefore, are the mole, the wolf, the ass, the toad, the cat, the hog, the bear, the camel, the basilisk, the hare, the ape, the dragon, the mule, all serpents and creeping things, scorpions, ants, and such things as proceed from putrefaction in the earth, in water, or in the ruins of houses, as mice and many sorts of vermin. 

Amongst birds, those are Saturnine which have long necks and harsh voices, as cranes, ostriches, and peacocks, which are dedicated to Saturn and Juno. 

Also the screech-owl, the horned-owl, the bat, the lapwing, the crow, the quail, which is the most envious bird of all. 

Amongst fishes, the eel, living apart from all other fish; the lamprey, the dog-fish, which devours her young; also the tortoise, oysters, cockles, to which may be added sea-sponges and all such things as come of them.

Footnotes

102:* Pas, from the Latin word "passus," meaning step, pace, or "right of going foremost; precedence." Thus the pas-flower means a plant blooming ahead of other flowers. A co-ordinate word is "pascha," meaning to "pass over," giving the name "Passover," or the feast of Easter. "Pasch" comes from and means the same as "pascha," and we read of the "pasch" egg, stained and given to children at Easter, as also of the "pasch" flower of Easter. The Easter flower was also known as the Pash-flower, Paschal-flower, and Pasque-flower—"pash" and "pasque" meaning Easter, and "paschal" pertaining thereto. This indicates that the pas-flower in the above text is identical with the pasque-flower, of the genus Anemone, having large purple flowers, which usually bloom about Easter, stepping foremost in their- order of blooming as regarding other flowers. Agrippa also makes mention here of the pas-flower as being an emblem of mourning as the ancients used it to "strow the graves before they put the dead bodies into them." While the ancients may have held the pas-flower as sacred to the rites of burial, the sense of its use as the Easter flower would indicate that it was also used as an emblem of great joy, and signified a new life for the departed through a new birth or resurrection. A true understanding of the meaning of the feast of the Passover or Easter will show this: Easter-day is always the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which comes upon or next after the 21st of March; so that if the fourteenth day comes on a Sunday, Easter-day will be the Sunday after. Easter corresponds to the Passover of the Jews, and "most nations still give it this name under the various forms of pascha, pasque, paque, or pask." The feast of the Passover was instituted by the Jews "to commemorate the providential escape of the Hebrews, in Egypt, when God, smiting the first-born of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites, which were marked with the blood of the paschal lamb." With the Christian church it is observed to commemorate the "resurrection of Christ." The Old High Germans celebrated the day in honor of Ostara, the goddess of light or spring, whence they called April (the month of or following Easter) Ostarmanoth. The Anglo-Saxons called the same month, Eastermonadh, from Eastre, their name for the same goddess, and their paschal feast, Eastran or Easter. March was named from Mars, the god of war, and was originally the first month of the year as it was in March that the Sun came to Aries, the first House of the Zodiac, emblemized by the lamb, as the ram was the first animal to forage for food and procreate; and the Sun entering p. 103 the first House was the vernal equinox, or the first day of spring, the first season of the fruitful year, and therefore March, being the advent month of light and fecundity, was esteemed as the first month of the year. The first full month of light and spring, when every fetter of winter was riven and spring was opened wide and fixed, was April, from aperio, to open; and also from the Greek word, aphros—foam—from which Venus was said to have sprung, and hence this month was sacred to her; no doubt Ostara and Eastre were identical with her. As Easter-day falls the first Sunday after the fourteenth day of the calendar moon which comes upon or next after the 21st of March, Easter-day usually comes in April and dates its arrival from the aspect of the Moon to the arbitrary date of March 21. This is a very significant fact and is fully confirmed as such when we find that the 21st of March is the usually precise date when the Earth, in its annual movement around the Sun, enters Libra, causing the Sun to apparently enter the opposite House or Sign of Aries, ending winter and ushering in spring, for the first day of spring always comes when the Sun enters Aries. Aries is the House of the lamb, and with the birth of spring the lamb is resurrected or brought to life anew, while winter is dead, the Sun having passed over the meridian line between winter and spring. Further, the word Easter corresponds with Aries, for it springs from the word East, and Aries is the Eastern part of the Zodiac. Therefore, March 21st is the true Eastern-day, but the celebration of the return of spring is fitly deferred until the first Sun-day after about a lunar cycle, so as to partake of the first fruits of the spring season. In view of the foregoing, therefore, the ancients used the pas-flower at the grave as an emblem of the passing over of the winter of old age and the resurrection of the spirit to eternal light and immortal youth. lased as such the pas-flower or pasque-flower typified joy and hope.

I think a lot about Meteors

noetic (adj.)

"pertaining to, performed by, or originating in the intellect," 1650s, from Greek noētikos "intelligent," from noēsis "a perception, intelligence, thought" (see noesis). 

Related: Noetical (1640s).

noesis (n.)

"intellect, intelligence," 1820, from Greek noēsis "intelligence, thought," from noein "to see, perceive, have mental perception," from noos "mind, thought" which is of uncertain origin.

( Leela has just helped to transfer The Flag — The TARDIS hatstand — back to the main control room )

LEELA: 

We've never been 

in here before!

DOCTOR: 

You've never been 

in here before. 

LEELA: 

What is it? 

DOCTOR: 

Number Two control room — 

 been closed for redecoration. 

I Don't Like The Colour.

LEELA: 

White isn't a colour. 

DOCTOR:

 That's The Trouble 

with Computers. 

Always Think in Black and White. 

No aquamarines, no blues, 

no imagination. 

(The time rotor stops.) 

LEELA:

Have we stopped? 

DOCTOR: 

No, we haven't stopped. 

(The viewscreen opens.) 

LEELA: 

Have we materialised? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

LEELA: 

Where? 

DOCTOR: 

Solar System, between 

Jupiter and Saturn. 

About 5000 AD. 

5000 AD? 

We're still in the time of your ancestors. 

LEELA: 

Ancestors? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. That was the year of the great breakout. 

LEELA: 

The great what?

DOCTOR: 

Mmm. When your forefathers went 

leapfrogging across the solar system 

on their way to the stars. 

Asteroid belt's probably teeming with them now. 

New Frontiersmen, Pioneers 

waiting to spread across The Galaxy 

like a tidal wave. 

Or a disease. 

LEELA:

Why 'disease'? 

I thought you 

liked Humanity?

DOCTOR: 

Oh, I do, I do. 

Some of my best 

friends are humans. 

But when they get together in great numbers, 

other lifeforms sometimes suffer.

(Andred tries to activate the scanner.)

 

ANDRED: 

It's jammed.

 

DOCTOR:

Yes. And it's going to stay jammed until the invaders have gone. 

You see, while I'm in here, 

they can't touch me, 

and they can't read my thoughts.

 

ANDRED: 
You mean, They can Travel along any form 
of broadcast wavelength?
 
Tom : 
Yes, and materialise at the end of it. 
But until They do materialise, 
I can't identify their planet of origin 

and time-loop it.

 

ANDRED: 
But You have access to 

The Greatest Source 
of Knowledge in The Universe.

 

Tom : 
Well, I do talk to myself 

sometimes, yes.
 

ANDRED: 
I mean, The Matrix.

 

DOCTOR: 
Oh. Oh, that old thing. 
Yeah. There's a problem there. 
I've been under a bit of a strain recently. 
You see, The Matrix has 
been invaded.

 

ANDRED: 

The Matrix has been invaded?

 

DOCTOR: 

Yes.

 

ANDRED : 

Why haven't you explained this to 

The Supreme Council?

 

DOCTOR: 
Shush. 
Because They can read thoughts. 
Even encephalographic patterns. 
That's why I've plugged K9 
into The Matrix instead of Me --
He's got no brains, you see.
 Sorry about that, K9.

 

ANDRED: 
Can you Trust A Machine?
 
DOCTOR: 
This one I can --
He's My Second-Best Friend.

Ultron: 

[as Natasha becomes conscious] 

I wasn't sure you'd wake up. 

I hoped you would, 

I wanted to show you something. 

I don't have 

anyone else. 

I think a lot about meteors, 

the •purity• of them. 

!BOOM! 

The End, start again. 

The World made clean for The New Man to rebuild. 

I was meant to be new. 

I was meant to be beautiful. 

The World would've looked to the sky 

and seen Hope, seen Mercy. 

Instead they'll look up in horror because of YOU. 

You've wounded me. 

I give you full marks for that. 

But, like The Man says, 

"What doesn't kill me…" 

[a much bigger, all-vibranium body of Ultron's rips the previous one in two.] 

"…just makes me stronger." 

[he locks Natasha in a cell]

[Titan base]

LOWE: Drop your weapons. I'm arresting you. All of you! 

(The three spacemen spin round. Lowe kills Silvey then runs. He hides behind a door labelled Kryogenics Sexshun. Safran and Meeker follow him.) 

SAFRAN: 

Close the door. Turn off the oxygen supply. 

(The Doctor briefly looks out of the Tardis, goes back inside then comes out again a few moments later. Leela follows slowly, knife ready.) 

DOCTOR: 

Nobody around. Not a soul. 

(The Doctor sounds a duck call.) 

DOCTOR: 

Anyone home? 

LEELA: 

Doctor, look. 

(They go to Silvey's body.) 

DOCTOR: 

Disregard mayday. 

He said disregard mayday. Why? 

LEELA: 

It is still warm. 

DOCTOR: 

Don't be gruesome. 

LEELA: 

I am a hunter. 

DOCTOR: 

You're a savage. 

LEELA: 

Perhaps. I'm not ashamed of what I am 

and I tell you, Doctor, 

I can smell danger. 

DOCTOR: 

What did you say? 

LEELA: 

I said, I can smell danger. 

DOCTOR: 

Evil again? 

LEELA: 

Everywhere. In this place. 

DOCTOR: 

We'd better find it before it finds us. 

LEELA: 

Right. 

DOCTOR: 

Stay here. 

LEELA: 

I'm no coward. 

(The Doctor moves off. Leela runs in another direction. The Doctor returns, walking backwards.) 

DOCTOR: 

Now listen, whatever happens. 

(He realises she has already gone, and leaves.)

[Base control]

SAFRAN: 

Set temperature and humidity rate 

for optimum breeding conditions. 

MEEKER: 

Set temperature and humidity rate 

for optimum breeding conditions. 

(The Doctor enters.) 

DOCTOR: 

Excuse me, you don't know me. 

Let me introduce myself. 

SAFRAN: 

There is no need. 

We are preparing the hives now. 

DOCTOR: 

People call me the D...

Hives? 

SAFRAN: 

For the nucleus which you carry within you. 

DOCTOR: 

Are you all right? 

I answered your mayday. 

(Safran and Meeker turn, and the Doctor sees the silver growths on their faces. He backs away a little.) 

SAFRAN: 

You answered the call? 

DOCTOR: 

That's right, that's right. 

Has someone been hurt?

SAFRAN: 

It is of no consequence. 

The physical envelope is of no importance. 

MEEKER: 

Of no importance. 

DOCTOR: 

What do you mean, of no importance? 

I just found a dead body out there. 

(Energy passes between Meeker and the Doctor.) 

MEEKER: 

Now that you have arrived. 

DOCTOR: 

I have arrived. 

SAFRAN: 

All that matters is that the reject should be destroyed. 

DOCTOR: 

Reject should be destroyed. 

SAFRAN: 

And breeding begin. 

DOCTOR: 

And breeding from my nucleus begin. 

(Leela finds the Kryogenics door and opens it. Lowe topples out, covered in ice. She drags him away. Meanwhile, Safran gives the Doctor his weapon.) 

DOCTOR: 

Leela The Reject will not suspect me. 

SAFRAN: 

One of us will follow. 

DOCTOR: 

That is not necessary. 

SAFRAN: 

The nucleus within you must not be harmed. 

MEEKER: 

Must not be harmed. 

DOCTOR: 

Very well. 

(The Doctor and Meeker leave.)

[Mess]

(Leela gives the recovering Lowe a hot drink.) 

LOWE: 

Who are you? 

LEELA: 

We answered your mayday. 

LOWE: 

They tried to kill me. The relief crew. 

They're insane. They've already killed these poor devils. 

LEELA: 

But why? Are they your enemies? 

LOWE: 

No. I know them. At least, I thought I did. 

But they've changed. 

LEELA: How changed? 

LOWE: Their eyes, their manner, their whole behaviour is different. One of them said something. 

LEELA: What? 

LOWE: 

Their purpose. 

"This place will be suitable for our purpose. 

For our purpose", whatever that is. 

LEELA: The Doctor will know. He'll be here soon.

[Titan base]

DOCTOR: 

Leela? Leela, where are you?

[Mess]

LEELA: 

That's him. That's The Doctor. 

LOWE: 

No, wait. 

It could be a trap, if they've caught him. 

LEELA: 

What are we going to do? 

LOWE: 

Hide. 

(Leela stands beside the door and Lowe picks up his weapon.) 

DOCTOR [OC]: 

Don't worry, Leela, it's only me. Listen to me, Leela. 

There's nothing wrong with this place. 

It's most suitable. 

It's a good place. 

A good place.

[Titan base]

DOCTOR: 

Come on, Leela. I'm waiting. 

Please leave me. Please. 

I can't do it. I can't do it. 

MEEKER: 

Think of the purpose. 

She is a reject. She must die. 

DOCTOR: I can't. 

MEEKER: 

Think of the purpose! 

DOCTOR: 

I can't. 

MEEKER: 

The purpose is all important! 

(Lowe knocks over a plant.) 

DOCTOR: 

The reject is here. 

(They walk to the Mess door.) 

MEEKER: 

Stay. The nucleus does not wish to be harmed. 

I shall destroy her. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. Kill her. Kill her.

[Mess]

(Meeker enters and shoots the gun out of Lowe's hand. Leela throws her knife into his back. Meeker falls over a chair. Leela grabs her knife back and runs out, also carrying a gun.) 

LOWE: 

Meeker, this purpose, what is it? 

(Energy transfers from Meeker to Lowe, then he dies. Lowe runs after Leela.)

[Titan base]

LOWE: 

Leave it to me. 

I know this place. 

(Lowe runs off. The Doctor comes up behind Leela, holding a gun in his very hairy hand.)

Part Two

[Titan base]

NUCLEUS [OC]: 

Destroy. The Reject must be destroyed. 

Kill. Kill. 

DOCTOR [OC]: 

I can't. I won't. 

NUCLEUS [OC]: 

You must. 

DOCTOR: 

Leela. 

LEELA: 

Doctor! 

(She turns and sees the gun.) 

DOCTOR: 

Leela, I can't stop it. 

(Leela ducks as he fires.) 

DOCTOR: 

Got to fight it. 

Got to fight it. 

(The Doctor curls up into a ball.) 

LEELA: 

Doctor, what's wrong? 

(He lets go of the gun, and the long silver hairs on his hand disappear.) 

LEELA: 

Doctor, what was all that? 

DOCTOR: 

I'm fighting for my mind. 

Whatever it was that attacked Safran and the others is also affecting me. 

LEELA: 

Why not me? 

DOCTOR: 

Perhaps because...Oh! 

I can feel it gathering strength to attack again. 

LEELA: 

The Evil One? 

DOCTOR: 

Some kind of organism that attacks 

the mind, the intelligence. 

It's trying to take me over, Leela. 

It's trying to change me. 

LEELA: 

No, Doctor, please. 

DOCTOR: 

I need help. 

I must withdraw into myself, save strength. 

(The Doctor becomes very still.) 

LEELA: 

Why not me?

[Titan base airlock]

(Safran has just pressed the button when Lowe comes round the corner. Safran draws his gun.) 

LOWE: 

No, wait. 

Contact has been made. 

(Lowe has the silver scales around his eyes.) 

LOWE: 

We are one, Safran. 

SAFRAN: 

Then why pursue me? 

LOWE: 

For The Purpose. 

The Doctor has not yet succumbed to 

The Power of The Nucleus. 

You will prepare the tanks for incubation. 

They do not suspect me yet. 

I will stay with them to guard The Nucleus 

and to destroy the reject. 

(Leela is running along the corridor. Lowe snatches a pair of goggles from Safran and puts them on.) 

LOWE: 

Give me those. Get down! 

LEELA: 

Did you get him? 

LOWE: 

Yes, but he almost got me. 

My eyes caught a flash from his blaster. 

LEELA: 

Come with me. 

The Doctor's ill, very ill. 

He told me to get help.

LOWE: 

But there are no facilities here. 

LEELA: 

Well, where, then? 

(Lowe and Leela leave, and Safran gets up again.)

[Titan base]

(The Doctor is still sitting very still. The Nucleus speaks inside Lowe's head.) 

NUCLEUS [OC]: 

You must protect The Host. 

LOWE: 

The nearest place is the Centre for Alien Biomorphology. 

But that's in the asteroid belt. 

LEELA: 

We'll take the TARDIS. 

Doctor, we're taking you somewhere to get help, 

but we need the TARDIS. 

Now, where are we going? 

LOWE: 

The Bi-Al Foundation, 

asteroid K four zero six seven. 

LEELA: 

What are the coordinates? 

Doctor, what are the coordinates? 

DOCTOR: 

Vector one nine, 

quadrant three. 

Seven four three. 

LEELA: 

Seven four three.

(They help him up.) 

DOCTOR: 

Eight zero zero.

[Bi-Al Foundation]

The asteroid has been completely hollowed out, and has lots of groups of windows in its surface. 

There is also a Red Cross logo, a tall antenna and a space ambulance on a landing pad. 

Inside, a patient swathed in gold foil has been strapped to a gurney and is being wheeled away down a corridor on level 2X. 

It is The Doctor. 

He is put inside a frosted compartment in the wall, 

the attendant presses a button and leaves. 

At the reception desk, 

Leela is checking him in. 

The TARDIS is neatly parked nearby, next to a potted palm.

WOMAN: 

Patient's name? 

LEELA: 

Er, just The Doctor. 

WOMAN: 

Place of origin? 

LEELA: 

Gallifrey. 

WOMAN: 

Ireland? 

LEELA: 

Oh, I expect so. 

WOMAN: 

Thank you, that's all we need for now. 

LEELA: 

But where is he? 

WOMAN: 

Level X4, Isolation, 

being datalysed. 

LEELA: 

Being what? 

WOMAN: 

Datalysed. 

Treatment is already underway. 

Are you next of kin? 

LEELA: 

Oh, no. Er, yes. 

I don't know. I expect so. 

(Lowe enters, wearing the goggles of course.) 

LOWE: 

Where's The Doctor?

 

LEELA: 

They've taken him away to level X4. 

LOWE: 

X4? 

WOMAN: 

Isolation. 

What's your trouble? 

LOWE: 

Blaster flash. 

Accident. 

WOMAN: 

Eye section straight through. 

They'll deal with you there. 

LOWE: (to Leela) 

I'll find you later. 

(Lowe leaves.) 

LEELA: 

Can I be with the Doctor? 

WOMAN: 

Not until Professor Marius 

has had a chance to examine him. 

LEELA: 

Marius? 

WOMAN: 

He's our specialist in extraterrestrial pathological endomorphisms. 

LEELA: Oh. 

WOMAN: 

Wait over there, please.

[Isolation ward]

(A wild-haired man takes a paper readout from a mobile computer built in the shape of a dog, and turns to his assistant. He speaks with a teutonic accent.) 

MARIUS: 

Blithering idiots, the pair of you. 

This man is in a self-induced coma. 

There's absolutely nothing wrong with the fellow. 

Oh, look at him. 

(The Doctor is lying on the examination table.) 

MARIUS: 

He's probably one of those good-for-nothing spaceniks. 

Now, why have I been sent for? 

Tell me that. Why? 

Complete and utter waste of time. 

(The dog-computer is producing another printout from its 'muzzle'.)

PARSONS: 

Excuse me, sir. 

MARIUS: 

What, what, what, what, what? 

PARSONS: 

K9 indicates that the, The Patient 

is not a member of The Human Race!

MARIUS: 

Nonsense. 

PARSONS: 

Well, see for yourself.

Look, Two Hearts. 

Symbiotic, self-renewing 

cell structure. 

MARIUS: 

Is this right, K9? 

K9: (for it is he) 

Affirmative, Master. 

MARIUS: 

Is he now. Point of origin? 

K9: 

Beyond the solar system. 

MARIUS: 

Thank you, K9. 

K9: 

Master. 

MARIUS: 

Nurse, let's get an encephalograph out on him, hmm? 

(The Doctor is slid underneath a scanning device. K9 beeps.) 

MARIUS: 

Well, well, what is it? 

K9: 

Unidentified viral type infection with noetic characteristics, 

at present seated in the mind-brain interface 

and therefore having no ascertainable mass or structure, master. 

MARIUS: 

Interesting. Most interesting. 

It isn't every night that we come up with a brand new infection, is it, Parsons? 

PARSONS: 

No, sir. 

(The Doctor sits up.) 

DOCTOR: 

Hello. 

MARIUS: 

Good evening. 

DOCTOR: 

Find anything? 

MARIUS: 

Not yet, my boy, 

but we will, we will. 

(Marius lies the Doctor back down again. An image of the Doctor's head comes up on the scanner.) 

MARIUS: 

Ah, Doctor, I see. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. What have you found? 

MARIUS: 

Cataleptic trance? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

MARIUS: 

Self-induced. 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. 

MARIUS: 

Ha. Why? 

DOCTOR: 

Self-preservation. 

Whatever it is I'm suffering from 

seems to thrive on intellectual activity. 

MARIUS: 

Oh, I see. 

You mean that the harder you think, 

the more of a grip it seems to take? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. Non-thinking is the only way to shake it off, 

but I can't stay mindless for eternity, can I.

MARIUS: 

Oh, no, I take your point, I take your point. 

Now my computer here, he's —

DOCTOR: 

Ah. Hello. 

K9: 

Hello. 

DOCTOR: 

How are you? 

MARIUS: 

Well, he seems to think that it's noetic in character, 

that means it's only detectable during consciousness. 

DOCTOR: 

I know what noetic means. 

MARIUS: 

I'm sorry. 

DOCTOR: 

Mind-brain interface. 

MARIUS: 

Well, if it exists. 

DOCTOR: 

But of course. 

How stupid. 

That's why it attacked The 

TARDIS Computer first. 

It was showing the greatest 

amount of mental activity. 

I was just idling, so to speak. 

MARIUS: 

When was this? 

DOCTOR: 

When we were first attacked.

We were on our way to Titan. 

I assumed it was just a static build-up. 

Then when I checked The Computer, 

it jumped into my mind, 

and that explains why Leela was —

MARIUS: 

Hmm? 

DOCTOR: 

Why Leela was unaffected. 

Have you met Leela? 

MARIUS: 

No. 

DOCTOR: 

She's all Instinct and Intuition. 

MARIUS: 

Oh. 

DOCTOR:

That's why The Virus rejected her. 

Of course. I begin to see it all now. 

MARIUS: 

Well, it's possible, it's possible. 

Was anyone else exposed to it? 

DOCTOR: 

Yes. The entire crew on Titan. 

Well, one exception. 

The Supervisor, man called Lowe. 

K9: 

Supervisor Lowe has been 

seen in The Eye Section. 

MARIUS: 

Are you sure? 

K9: 

Affirmative. 

(The Doctor goes back into his coma.) 

MARIUS: 

Are you sure that he was the, oh. 

Oh dear, he's gone again. 

I want him kept under 

constant observation. 

See to it, K9. 

Full monitoring. 

K9: 

Affirmative, Master.