Interstitial Time

People assume that Time is 

a strict progression of Cause to Effect, 

but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint, 

it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, 

timey-wimey….. stuff.

Well, gentleman, to begin with, time isn't smooth. It's made up of little bits. 

HYDE: 

A series of minute present moments. 

RUTH: 

That's it. 

Temporal atoms, so to speak. 

So, if one could push something through the interstices between them, it would be outside our space-time continuum altogether. 

BRIGADIER: 

Where would it be then? 

RUTH: 

Well, Nowhere at all in ordinary terms. 

BRIGADIER: 

You've lost me, Doctor Ingram. 

COOK: 

And me. I've never heard such a farrago of unscientific rubbish in all my life. 

It's a impossible situation. 

HYDE: 

But we've done it. 

We shoved that vase through 

and brought it back, in there. 

BRIGADIER: 

But shoved it through where, for goodness sake? 

BENTON: 

Sort of through the crack between Now, and Now, sir. 

HYDE: 

Right, you've got it.

*****

DOCTOR: 

The Crystal of Kronos. 

So I am right. 


RUTH: 

Kronos? Well, that's what Stuart said. 

Look, Doctor, what is all this about? 


DOCTOR: 

Well, it'll be difficult to accept, 

I warn you. 


RUTH: 

Well, try me. 


DOCTOR: 

Well, luckily you are already familiar with the idea of stepping outside of space-time. 


RUTH: 

I've lived with the concept for months. 


DOCTOR: 

And I've lived with it for many long years. I've been there. 


RUTH: 

You have? 


DOCTOR: 

Yes, I have. 

Strange place it is, too. 

A place that is No Place. 

A dangerous place where creatures live beyond your wildest imagination. 

Kronovores, Time-Eaters. 

They swallow a Life as quickly 

as a boa constrictor can 

swallow a rabbit, fur and all. 


RUTH: 

Are you saying that Kronos is one of these creatures? 


DOCTOR: 

I am. The most fearsome of the lot.