Tuesday, August 11, 2009

TARDIS Library

According to an official BBC spokesmen:
"Inside the TARDIS there are an awful lot of rooms -
libraries, gardens, swimming pools and even a cricket pavilion."
The WhoUniverse says
, _" A TARDIS has at least two libraries. The larger library takes up dozens of rooms and each of these rooms has two shelves which are a couple of miles long and tall. A brass ladder or spiral staircase provides access to the upper levels. Most of the books are stored in tronic lattice data cubes that are kept in book shaped cases, but some of the books are capable of reading themselves out loud."
However, the Doctor's library is best described in the "Borgesian" terms as a "Library of Babel". A place containing all possible books in all possible combinations in all possible alphabets in all the possible languages in the universe. From this chaos comes meaning.
Well...the Doctor has pointed his sonic screwdriver at some these books and has some suggestions...
Doctor's Reading Suggestion: The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges
The Library of Babel attempts to explain the "chaotic order"[sic] of the Universe. Borges fails, but takes the reader on a fantastic mathematical and metaphysical journey.
More intriguing __ the job of the hapless librarian. In the book: "The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel", by William Goldbloom Bloch, [caution: you need to know how to cipher to read this book] Bloch notes that walking 60 miles a day for a 100 years the librarian would only cover a distance in the library that light would cover in two minutes. If he picked up his pace to the speed of light it would take him 15 billion years to examine the books in his charge. Yips!
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