| abstract | - The effect was named after Aaron Blinovitch who, in 1928, formulated the Blinovitch theory in the reading room of the British Museum. (PROSE: The Ghosts of N-Space) The Ninth Doctor said that prior to the time-locked destruction of the Time Lords in the Last Great Time War, his people could have prevented or mitigated the effects of a paradox. (TV: Father's Day) The Blinovitch Limitation Effect was modified by the Time Lords and their temporal technology on Gallifrey, although crossing one's own time stream required enormous amounts of energy and broke the First Law of Time. (TV: The Three Doctors) The Doctor mentioned the effect when explaining why he or another cannot simply go back in time to take another try when a plan fails. (TV: Day of the Daleks) The Time Lords and other time-aware and time-active groups could, with technological assistance, suppress the effect. For example, The Time Lords once expended energy to suppress these effects, (TV: The Three Doctors) the Eleventh Doctor once used the sonic screwdriver to do so (PROSE: Touched by an Angel), and the Doctor's TARDIS did so herself when reconfigured into a multi-dimensional city. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible) When a person used time travel to attempt to change their own existing timeline, the deviation could create a time loop, which was a type of paradox. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
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