Anachronism
From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.
Anachronisms were objects, ideas or persons present in a time which is not related to its own, and thus liable to create a time paradox.
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[edit] Overview
[edit] Regulation
The Time Lords' First Law of Time set out to prevent anachronisms such as a person meeting themselves (DW: The Three Doctors) or returning Eldrad to her present, by that time (from a 20th century point of view) the distant past (DW: The Hand of Fear)
[edit] Serious instances
When Anti-Time began to bleed into the universe anachronisms began to affect history and had a disastrous effect on the Web of Time. (BFA: Neverland)
[edit] Examples of their creation
The Monk had, by the time he met the Doctor in 1066, caused many deliberate anachronisms in Earth history in an effort to "improve" it. (DW: The Time Meddler) On the other hand, the Doctor caused anachronisms of his own by deliberately defacing copies of the Mona Lisa with "this is a fake" written with felt tip pen on the canvas. The words would be readable in the 20th century after the X-Ray had been invented. (DW: City of Death)
Anachronisms were present in the Alternate Rome created by the Rani on Terra Nova. (MA: State of Change)
The Daleks introduced anachronisms in many times they visited, including 1866 (DW: The Evil of the Daleks), 1930 (DW: Daleks in Manhattan), 1963 (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks), 1984 (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks) and other times visited by the Daleks after the Last Great Time War
[edit] Examples of their prevention
The Doctor warned Barbara Wright of attempting to change 15th century Aztec culture. (DW: The Aztecs)
Since portable stereos did not exist in the 1960s, the Doctor called Ace's stereo that she was carrying around in Shoreditch in 1963 a "dangerous anachronism". (DW: Remembrance of the Daleks)
