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A's got a girl for each season [B's got a mail-order bride]

[the Master and the Doctor appear together at the Astral Bar, bickering. No one should be surprised] Well, she's not that bad to put up with, is she? A bit mouthy, but you've picked up worse. The one of her here asked ever-so-nicely for me to take this one on, you know, so I don't mind. And anyway, if you happen to be acting particularly maddening, I can always use her as a hostage to put you back in line. It's a winning situation, I think.

You're not using her as a hostage. Frankly, I think she'd have a say in that first.

And I'd end up killing her because she's a very mouthy hostage, yes. It happens, I'm afraid. [the Master starts mixing a White Ballistic for himself, because he wants one]

[The Doctor wants one, too, but he's just eyeing the Master's] You haven't been slapped by her. You'd have to get through that first.

I'll draw her death out into something slow and painful, then. I keep telling you, Doctor, don't let any of your precious pets near me if you can't make them behave.

[the Doctor sighs and runs his hand through his hair] Her room is far, far away from yours, so you'll have to go out of your way to see her. Shouldn't be a problem.

Unless it becomes one, of course. You realise that there's only one good television lounge, and that I'm not sharing it with anyone. Except Lucy, of course.

You and Donna watch the same shows, don't you? Those sort of...popular things on in the daytime.

[for a long moment, he stares] I don't watch soap operas.

Oh. What about those talk ones?

No.

Well then, might need another television.

[the Master drinks his White Ballistic with a grin] My dear Doctor, the burden is entirely on you.

[ooc; join post, red is Master, blue is Doctor, expect double-tagging, and so on]

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[Snorts.] Hardly.

All right, Master. [He shifts to face him, voice even.] Thermodynamics and particle fluctuation through external environmental interactions, specifically for black holes. A theory on thermo balance, if you will. Assuming that the lower dimension of the black hole contains the singularity and is therefore within a spacetime curvature approaching infinity - itself within a vortex connection between universes though not yet connecting, you're left with a zero space where information goes through quantum fluctuations until which point that there is no longer phase transition. Matter and energy cease to exist and are bound into spatial matrices.

But instead the entropy could be based upon anti-black holes where the temporal loop rests on the event horizon rather than as the entire surface of the black hole, not including tidal forces in this model. With the wave function reducing the particles each time into increasingly less probable spins the entropy would eventually reverse as lightspeed is surpassed and infinity negated to create a bubbling effect in the fabric of spacetime, which results in the very dimensional pocket the information was originally stored in. Retrocausality, yes, but unknown to the observer and so safely within the effects of interference through superposition.

[Brightly.] And thus, the thermodynamic limit is actually an illusion caused by the interacting particles on varying wavelengths. The real entropy is in a completely separate universe.

[deadpan]

I love it when you talk dirty to me.

[Arthur was thrilled to hear that whole explanation, giddy even. This completely disappears at the Master's comment, and he suddenly tenses away from the both of them.

Considering he wasn't holding on to anything, this is enough to make Arthur fall off his bar stool and land, rather painfully, on his side]

[The Doctor has to stop and blinks for a second. Arthur is very strange. Then he mentally sighs and slips off the bar to offer Arthur his hand. Interestingly, he doesn't pull his hand away from the Master's.] All right, Arthur? Didn't mean to blow you away there.

[Mind you, he thinks it might have been the Master's comment but it seems best to gloss that over.]

[Arthur takes the offered hand and quickly pulls himself up, taking a seat again. He's blushing very brightly, head ducked down low enough that his glasses are barely staying on his nose]

Yes, yes of course. I'm sorry.

[the Master is still pretty 'what the hell?']

[The Doctor hops up onto the bar again when Arthur is up. His head tilts and he looks curious. He also mentally shrugs to the Master. He doesn't get it, either.]

If you're sure. Do be careful on those things. Though at least that has legs, I suppose. The antigravity ones of the 30th century are much worse.

[He's rambling.] Right then! Was there something specific you wanted to learn about? We do both have our areas of strengths and weaknesses.

[It takes Arthur a moment to think of something, mostly because he's struggling with what to focus on]

What do you know about Saha's ionization equation?

[looks at the Doctor]

I imagine I could tell you a lot more about it if you didn't give me the Earth name for the thing. Doctor?

[because of course the Doctor would know what the humans call it]

[The Doctor nods.] Earth names can be a bit tricky. That specific ionization equation is for the categorization of stars, though. Based on spectral class, at least, though current - Arthur's current - theories only go by temperature and not by luminosity as well, which later models do account for at least. 'Course, those do get overthrown eventually anyway, especially with the discovers in 2013...

[Clears his throat.] Erm, right, well, it's only good for high temperatures, because the equation itself can't really measure microstates of the particles. It just factors those into the degree of error, which is all right more or less, for stars, anyway. What it does measure is the expelling of electrons that form the plasma state. And from there it's based on temperature, density and ionization, which is quite easy to determine once you know the distance of the electric field. Hence the name of the formula, since it follows the ionization for the most part. It measures the large electric fields that exist in the plasma, simply. It's not exact, definitely not, but not a bad idea, actually, since what are stars if not plasma? [a pause.] Well. Depends on the star.

[The Doctor feels the Master probably thinks this is a very quaint measuring system. The Doctor himself is going, "aww, it's cute, the way humans do these things."]

Edited 2009-01-20 18:00 (UTC)

[the Master does think it's 'quaint' if by 'quaint' we mean 'totally stupid,' and he snorts at the description of it]

[Arthur, on the other hand, couldn't look any happier from being able to simply sit here and listen. No sexual comments from the Master this time, to boot]

He released a paper earlier this year, but the University has yet to acquire a copy in English. Thank you.

[The Doctor beams.]

You're quite welcome. Oh but try not to mention the issue with luminosity. That will be resolved eventually. You can try to figure it out privately, of course. Your timeline's already been drastically changed by this place, so I don't see the harm in it.

And you always throw fits when I interfere with 'History'...

How can you tell that it's been altered?

Ah, well, simple enough. It's part of having time in our blood. We know time. We can see it, sense it, feel it. [pauses.] And some things can be changed without any issues.

Even if you really oughtn't change those things. After all, you're not supposed to touch anything. "You can't rewrite history! Not one line of it!" with the corollary law, "if the story changes, the ending must stay the same."

But....it's alright that mine has been altered?

Ah, well... [He pauses, mulling it over.] I think so, yes. Sometimes it's all right, if things change. Some things can change.

[gives the Doctor a Look]

What would happen if my time line were to be changed, but not in a way that was acceptable?

[Gives the Master a look back before turning to Arthur.] Hm? Oh, well. [He makes a face, thinking how to explain it. He even chews on his tongue for a moment.] Now? Now, I believe things would just carry on even though the timeline is damaged. Sometimes it repairs itself, of course- [see: Father's Day] -but much of the time it just...proceeds, rewriting history. If the timelines become too damaged, they break. It's a web, really. A thread can snap and be repaired or be left to swing uselessly.

There are stories of creatures who so terribly twisted the Web of Time that the entire thing collapsed in on itself, fragmenting reality and destroying all consciousness but for the one that created the collapse.

[Arthur looks a little worried now] That won't happen to me, will it? To my reality?

[Shakes his head.] It's highly unlikely. The web of time would have to be severely damaged. [He glances at the Master, because my, that story feels familiar.] But Gallifrey had many stories to scare people away from breaking the laws. [A pause.] Grandfather Paradox was always the worst.

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