Thread:The Purpur Man/@comment-26173711-20191207063934/@comment-36309590-20191230025551

Here's the actual wiki info if you want the longer version, but yeah, the Time Lords not only eliminated magic in their universe, they made time as we and every other creature currently know it.

''Rather than being a necessary fundamental aspect of the universe, the Web of Time was a meta-structure created and imposed on the universe from the Matrix by the Time Lords during the anchoring of the thread, when Rassilon used the Eye of Harmony as "the hitching post of chronology". (AUDIO: Neverland, PROSE: The Book of the War) Before this, the universe had no history or defined set of physical laws. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet)

It could be visualised as a map of history, with the Homeworld at its center. The Homeworld was immediately surrounded by a core set of worlds over which it had the most influence, locked into place as protections against the uncertainty outside. Like any noosphere, the Spiral Politic had an edge, the frontier in time, beyond which the Great Houses had great difficulty penetrating or even observing. Worlds made up the majority of historical systems on the map of the Spiral Politic, but there were some significant exceptions: these included regions outside normal time, like the Eleven-Day Empire and the City of the Saved, as well as a rare few individuals of blinding historical importance.

Homeworlders were directly linked to their noosphere. (PROSE: The Book of the War) The Ninth Doctor told Rose Tyler that he could see all that was and all that could ever be, and it was maddening. (TV: The Parting of the Ways) The Web was in constant flux, like an ocean of shifting possibilities; it could only be frozen into certainty by a Time Lord's direct touch or intervention, through the observer effect. It was for this reason that the Time Lords established their non-interference policy. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)

Amaranths could also be used to rebuild unstable or discontinuous elements of the universe (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet) along the lines of the established laws of the Spiral Politic. (PROSE: Against Nature)''