User talk:Metabaron
Here's the text of your quantum mnenomics entry, if you want to keep it. If you can tell me where you got all that from, I'd be glad to restore it.
Quantum mnemonics are a fictional set of tools used to manipulate the fabric of time and space. The principle behind QMs is that the universe can be reprogrammed if you know the right code, but that the code requires processing of such a high order that only the most advanced races in the universe can (a) write it, and (b) memorise it.
Any being that can perceive a mathematical model of the universe in its head is capable of altering its fabric, but performing such a function is a one-time event. Quantum Mnemonics are shortcuts that turn the full code into a universal "macro" which can be applied when needed by someone who understands the fundamental principles.
Quantum Mnemonics tend to come in two forms - symbolic, mimetic, and oral.
A symbolic mnemonic is a sign or seal known as a vever (taken from the vodun word for a religious sigil). Once scribed the vever is permanent, and can be activated only by someone whose mind is trained to understand the mathematical nature of the universe.
Oral or mimetic mnemonics are embedded idea committed to memory. They are harder to create and more limited in scope than vevers. Those able to create them tend to use words (hence oral) or hand gestures (mimesis) to focus their thoughts, resulting in a single effect which resembles spellcasting.
Quantum Mnemonics were created by Adrian Middleton for an unpublished Doctor Who novel, The Fugue, and first appeared in print in the fanzine Apocrypha in 1993. They were used by Craig Hinton in his second novel, Millennial Rites, in 1995. Mimesis was introduced by Lance Parkin in his novel Cold Fusion, published in 1996.
The QMs appearing in Millennial Rites contained the laws of the previous universe and the laws of the next universe, and were written by the Elder Gods. Similar Mnemonics were used/created by Rassilon to create the Web of Time.
A future alternate version of the Time Lords, called the Ferutu (an anagram of future) used the power of "mimesis" in Lance Parkin's novel, Cold Fusion. The Doctor and the Time Lords of the Fraction used oral mnemonics, referred to as "The Power of the Fourth", in Colin Meek's webcast Death Comes to Time. This story revealed that abuse of this power can damage the fabric of the universe by creating singularities.
The Doctor Who story "School Reunion" by Toby Whitehouse refers to the Skasas Paradigm, which would appear to be the way of thinking needed to manipulate the fabric of time and space (thereby unlocking the power of quantum mnemonics).
Jeb 19:57, 1 March 2007 (CST)
The entire article is referenced throughout, except for those parts of the article relating to myself. I invented Quantum Mnemonics, and posted this article because somebody asked me for a definition of what they were. A lot of this can be evidenced through online posting by Craig Hinton, as well as credits in his book Millennial Rites and references in Lance Parkin's AHistory.
- Moved the discussion... This site is only meant to hold purely canonical material, I'm afraid, even if you are the inventor of the concept. So it'd be best to limit the entry to just the information in Millennial Rites and AHistory. No problem noting you as the creator in a Comments sections, of course. Jeb 21:09, 6 March 2007 (CST)
