Physics 101
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 28670
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...sitting in the front row of a classroom. In front of them, a small,
balding man was writing some physics equations on the blackboard and
droning alone in a soporific monotone. Behind them sat several rows of
extremely bored-looking teenagers. Nobody seemed to notice their sudden
appearance, or to view it as out of the ordinary if they did. "Oh, gawd," moaned Ragan, plunging her head into her hands in despair. "It's my worst nightmare. I'm back in high school!" Briefly she lifted her face again, confiming that the classroom was still there, and added, "Except that if this was a nightmare, there'd be a final exam I hadn't studied for, or I'd be naked or something. So I guess this is was passes for real. Shoot me now!" "I'd love to," said the Master dryly, "but these fools confiscated my Death Ray." The teacher continued to write and drone, apparently oblivious to this exchange. Suddenly the Doctor, who had been watching him intently, leapt to his feet and thrust a hand into the air. "Excuse me! Excuse me!" This finally got the little man's attention, and he turned around and peered at the Doctor through small round lenses. "Yes? Do you have a question?" "No. Well, yes, actually, quite a few of them, but mainly I wanted to point out that you've made a mistake." He strode quickly up to the blackboard. "Well, not a mistake, as such. This does work perfectly well in ordinary three-dimensional space, but it's not very elegant, is it? Now, if you'd just change this, here..." He grabbed a piece of chalk and began altering and expanding the man's equations. "Now, let tau be the temporal displacement, and this clearly becomes tau cosine theta over six..." The chalk continued to fly as the Doctor covered the board with equations, babbling the entire time. Once or twice, the teacher attempted to grab the chalk, but the Doctor didn't even seem to notice."Doctor," interrupted the Master, lounging back in his seat with a look of dry amusement. "You forgot to carry the four." "What? Oh, yes. Thank you!" The chalk moved faster and faster, sending puffs of white powdered dust out into the sleepy classroom atmosphere. "Do you understand any of that?" Time Warrior whispered to Ragan. "Well, I understood what it said before he started scribbling on it..." "It looks like basic multiversal theory," said Dayanara. "Only, uh... not." At this point, the Doctor finished up with a flourish, producing a final line of unevenly chalked numbers. "And there we have it!" he beamed. "The spacetime coordinates of Luna City in June of 2239, where they're having a lovely little centennial celebration. I particularly recommend the laser fireworks display." The Master clapped his hands a couple of times in slow, ironic fashion. The teacher was still standing there by the chalkboard staring at the Doctor, his mouth gaping in utter befuddlement. Suddenly...
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ragan (who wrote this before seeing Lots' extension)
5/27/2003 4:09:57 PM
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