You're absolutely right. It was all theory. But the Time Lords cracked the code, as it were. Figured out how to navigate the time vortex after stabilizing the Eye of Harmony, and now I travel in a TARDIS — Time and Relative Dimension in Space.
[ It's...so much. And there's even more to it than that. He is, at least, aware of this and trying to slow down, though failing miserably. Unfortunately, he also gets excited talking about it! ]
Time is a bit like grains of sand in an hourglass, tiny granules all floating about in the infinite universe, splintering off into possibilities.
[ He holds back from mentioning parallel universes and alternate timelines. ]
And as a Time Lord, I can see all of it, what's fixed, what's in flux.
[ — what was, what could be, what must be to avoid cataclysm from altering what shouldn't be. ]
It's all here. [ He taps the side of his head. It's why, by his own admission, he's a madman with a box. ]
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[ It's...so much. And there's even more to it than that. He is, at least, aware of this and trying to slow down, though failing miserably. Unfortunately, he also gets excited talking about it! ]
Time is a bit like grains of sand in an hourglass, tiny granules all floating about in the infinite universe, splintering off into possibilities.
[ He holds back from mentioning parallel universes and alternate timelines. ]
And as a Time Lord, I can see all of it, what's fixed, what's in flux.
[ — what was, what could be, what must be to avoid cataclysm from altering what shouldn't be. ]
It's all here. [ He taps the side of his head. It's why, by his own admission, he's a madman with a box. ]