Howling:Entropy, the Pharos Project, and the eventual destruction of Earth

just an extra spoiler warning, this is about the 4th doctor TV episode logopolis, so if you haven't seen it yet, don't read.

ok, now onto my point. in Logopolis (TV story), once the mathematicians on logopolis die, an entropy wave spreads throughout the universe which is only stopped once the doctor and the master put the logopolitan's program through the computers at the pharos project on earth with the signal beaming out into space. however, the pharos project would have to eventually end, even if only with the eventual destruction of earth in the year 5,000,000,000. so, why doesn't an entropy wave consume the universe once the pharos project stops sending signals into space? Imamadmad ☎  08:57, October 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm assuming that the reference to the year 5,000,000,000 comes from The End of the World. I would think the National Trust would possibly have taken care of the Pharos Project, maybe by moving it somewhere else before the Earth's sun was due to explode. Or maybe, at some point, the Doctor, knowing about both the Pharos Project and the end of the Earth, took care of it. Shambala108 ☎  20:44, October 25, 2012 (UTC)


 * This is certainly a loose end. We don't know from anything so far shown on TV how or by whom the problem was solved. From what we saw in Utopia etc, however, it must have been solved somehow. Of course, the end of the Universe in Utopia might be the result of the solution (whatever it was) coming to an end. That was much, much more than 5,000,000,000 years from now -- the Doctor mentioned the year 100 trillion, when he was reading off their progress to Martha during the journey. Even assuming that's US trillion, rather than European trillion, it's still 20,000 times as far away as the year 5,000,000,000. If it's European trillion, it's 20,000,000,000 times as far away. On the basis of the information available, though, that's about as far as I can get. --89.241.73.91talk to me 01:44, October 26, 2012 (UTC)