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| − | |Object name = "Ghost Machine" |
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| ⚫ | [[Torchwood Three]] acquired the machine by tracing alien energy signals from the device while still in Bernie's possession. After a chase that led her to a [[Cardiff Central Station|train station]], [[Gwen Cooper]] ended up with Bernie's hoodie, with the machine in a pocket. She mentally time-slipped back in time and saw a [[ghost]] from [[World War II]], not a phantom in the conventional sense, but a quantum echo of the long-ago emotional state of a living person, [[Tom Flanagan]]. The other half of the machine, also at Bernie's, snapped in neatly with the first and picked up visions of the future. |
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| − | :''The Ghost Machine came to [[21st century]] by unknown means, presumbably via the [[Cardiff Rift]].'' |
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| + | The transducer eventually was put away with other dangerous alien artefacts in Torchwood Three. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'') |
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| + | It was seen again when [[Owen Harper]] tried to find the blueprints for the [[Rift Manipulator]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Captain Jack Harkness (TV story)|Captain Jack Harkness]]'') |
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| + | == Technology == |
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| − | The other half of the machine, also at Bernie's, snapped in neatly with the first and picked up allowed visions of the future. Though not physically itself, exerted a powerful psychological hold and showed traumatic visions from both the past and times to come. Jack said it caused Humans to try to change destiny. |
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| + | The transducer used [[nanotechnology]]. It converted the quantum traces of emotional events, both past and future, into a form that humans could mentally experience. |
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| − | + | When activated, apparently by touching the buttons on the front, the user was shown an emotional event from the past or future. As well as showing the actual event, the transducer also transmitted the thoughts of the people in the event. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (TV story)|Ghost Machine]]'') |
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| + | == Behind the scenes == |
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| − | [[Image:Detail_ghost_machine.jpg|left|thumb|150px|Partially disasembled Ghost Machine, showing detail of interior (''[[torchwood.org.uk]]'')]] |
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| + | === Torchwood website === |
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| + | The [[Series 1 (Torchwood)|series 1]] version of the [[Torchwood website]] had an article written by Captain [[Jack Harkness]] titled "Ghost machine explained". It said that instead of looking at the transducer from the perspective of flesh and blood beings like humans, the device had to be seen as how a transdimensional being — who can travel back and forth through time as if it was water — would observe the universe. Jack explained that "every" traveller needs a map — some equivalent of GPS. Jack speculated that the quantum transducer functioned as a "ghost map" that locked onto quantum "hot spots", which humanity perceived as ghosts to help the transdimensional being find out where he was in time and space. He says that this is why it kept switching itself on around a "big emotional echo" — it's essentially "a mobile phone scanning for a signal". <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/gadgets/jack.shtml |title=Ghost machine explained |author=Harkness, J |date of source= |website name=[[Torchwood website]] |accessdate=25 July 2013 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070827003849/http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/gadgets/jack.shtml |archivedate=27 August 2007 }}</ref> |
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| − | The Ghost Machine used [[nanogenes|nanotechnology]]. The machine contained a transducer that the converted the quantum traces of emotional events, both past and future, and transduced them so that Humans could mentally experience them. ([[TW]]: ''[[Ghost Machine (Torchwood story)|Ghost Machine]]''). Jack believed that it worked as a navigational device for travelers across the dimensions who would use quantum traces to orient the flight of their craft. (''[[torchwood.org.uk]]'') |
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| − | :''According to Jack, the machine only showed possible futures that might nor might not come to pass. In practice the visions the machine relayed all did come true.'' |
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| − | *[http://www.torchwood.org.uk/html/gadgets/jack.shtml Jack's report on the device] |
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Revision as of 22:10, 16 August 2019
The quantum transducer or "Ghost Machine" allowed humans a form of mental time travel.
History
In the 21st century, Ed Morgan acquired the machine and then Bernie Harris, a small-time fence in grey-market alien artefacts who filched it out of a biscuit tin found in a lockup owned by Ed Morgan presumably.
Torchwood Three acquired the machine by tracing alien energy signals from the device while still in Bernie's possession. After a chase that led her to a train station, Gwen Cooper ended up with Bernie's hoodie, with the machine in a pocket. She mentally time-slipped back in time and saw a ghost from World War II, not a phantom in the conventional sense, but a quantum echo of the long-ago emotional state of a living person, Tom Flanagan. The other half of the machine, also at Bernie's, snapped in neatly with the first and picked up visions of the future.
The transducer eventually was put away with other dangerous alien artefacts in Torchwood Three. (TV: Ghost Machine)
It was seen again when Owen Harper tried to find the blueprints for the Rift Manipulator. (TV: Captain Jack Harkness)
Technology
The transducer used nanotechnology. It converted the quantum traces of emotional events, both past and future, into a form that humans could mentally experience.
When activated, apparently by touching the buttons on the front, the user was shown an emotional event from the past or future. As well as showing the actual event, the transducer also transmitted the thoughts of the people in the event. (TV: Ghost Machine)
Behind the scenes
Torchwood website
The series 1 version of the Torchwood website had an article written by Captain Jack Harkness titled "Ghost machine explained". It said that instead of looking at the transducer from the perspective of flesh and blood beings like humans, the device had to be seen as how a transdimensional being — who can travel back and forth through time as if it was water — would observe the universe. Jack explained that "every" traveller needs a map — some equivalent of GPS. Jack speculated that the quantum transducer functioned as a "ghost map" that locked onto quantum "hot spots", which humanity perceived as ghosts to help the transdimensional being find out where he was in time and space. He says that this is why it kept switching itself on around a "big emotional echo" — it's essentially "a mobile phone scanning for a signal". [1]
Footnotes
- ↑ Harkness, J. Ghost machine explained. Torchwood website. Archived from the original on 27 August 2007. Retrieved on 25 July 2013.
