From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: arromdee@rahul.net (Ken Arromdee)
Subject: Re: The way River Song won't be fixed

In article <366e7fab-77ef-4f98-9a11-096488d4ac97@g30g2000vbu.googlegroups.com>,
solar penguin   wrote:
>If fixing points works in a Schroedinger-style way, then points become
>fixed when they (or their effects) are already known by time
>travellers who are going to have been affected by them.  So in this
>case, the Doctor's death probably only became fixed when Amy and Rory
>witnessed it.

We are talking about time travel.  Since Amy and Rory travelled to 1938,
would the fixed point now be fixed from 1938 on?  Or is it only fixed
for them but not fixed for natives of 1938?  Could the people in the Meet Dave
ship therefore change the "fixed" point?  What if Amy and Rory left a
message for the natives of 1938; would they no longer be able to change the
fixed point?  Or if they still could, why can't they just leave a message
for the natives of 2011?

>> I'm sure there's a way for the Doctor to sic that bug on the Silence and
>> change the timeline to fix the whole River Song mess.
>Nice idea, but the mess is to big to be fixed that easily.

What the bug can do is so incredibly big in scope that this isn't a farfetched
idea at all.

Of course it's never going to happen for the same reason that the Doctor is
never going to destroy a planet full of Daleks by going back in time a week,
saving one, and waiting for the Reapers to cleanse the planet.
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Yoda: "Do or do not.  There is no 'try'."

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