O que alimenta o TARDIS?

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One of the Hearts of a TARDIS (like Time Lords, a TARDIS has two) is a massive energy collector that is a mathematically constructed copy of the Prime Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey. In modern times it is often referred to as an Eye of Harmony (which can cause some confusion). Because of this, some Time Lords refer to it as Point Zero. These Eye copies can be found on all TARDISes after the Type 24. The Eye's iron-like Containment Sphere is located beneath the Cloister Room. While the Prime Eye's Containment Sphere is 10 km in diameter the TARDIS's sphere only about the size of a house.

Artron Energy created by the Prime Eye of Harmony on Gallifrey is broadcast into the Space-Time Vortex. This energy travels though the Vortex's Time Contours. Attached to a TARDIS's Containment Sphere is the Receptor Antenna, which collects artron energy using chronon transduction. The naked singularity at the Heart of a TARDIS is directly linked to the Space-Time Vortex, and uses Chronon Transduction to collect the energy.

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Without the Prime Eye of Harmony a TARDIS would eventually have to refuel itself. A TARDIS can travel at least 22 billion years before refuelling. When necessary, the Eye's Receptor Antenna is also capable of collecting temporal energy from temporal instabilities, fault-lines running between dimensions, scars on reality, or rifts in time and space that found throughout this Universe. Time Rifts make the best fuel source. Such a rift occurs when two or more dimensions are pressed against each other creating a rift or a scar like an earthquake fault line. The TARDIS can drain off the energy created by the competing forces. Depending on the current energy level of the rift it can take a few minutes to a few days for the TARDIS to power up completely. The rift energy collected by the copy Eye is processed into Artron Energy to make it usable by the Transpower System. This energy is stored in the TARDIS's other Heart (aka Main Space-Time Element) located in the Console. A TARDIS's Emergency Procedures will automatically try to divert any large explosion or energy release that occurs inside the TARDIS into its Eye of Harmony.

Nós vimos contradições do filme na TV. Na série original, as TARDISae são alimentadas via energia emitida pelo Eye of Harmony em Gallifrey. No filme de TV, o Olho parecia estar alojado na própria TARDIS. nas primeiras temporadas das novas estações, ele oscilou um pouco - Gallifrey tinha sumido, ou pelo menos inacessível, preso no bloqueio do tempo, então a TARDIS precisava usar a energia da fenda para reabastecer. O salto para o Mundo de Pete cortou qualquer conexão possível com o Olho da Harmonia, então o navio perdeu todo o poder. O Doutor encontrou um único nó ativo e, literalmente, deu-lhe o sopro da vida, dando "cerca de dez anos de [sua] vida" a ele (presumivelmente energia regenerativa, a primeira vez que vimos isso compartilhado assim)

Em Journey to the Centre da TARDIS, vemos que o Eye of Harmony está de volta dentro da própria TARDIS novamente.

Agora, neste caso, e no filme de TV, poderíamos estar olhando para outro exemplo de mecânica transdimensional, e na verdade o Olho da Harmonia é sobre Gallifrey ... e ao mesmo tempo, dentro não só O TARDIS DO MÉDICO, MAS TODAS AS TARDISAS.