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How big is Gallifrey compared to Earth? ›

From whatever vantage point this image is taken from, we can see that the diameter of Gallifrey appears to be roughly 5.5 times the radius of earth, or d_G = 2.75 d_E.

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).

Gallifrey's history in Doctor Who is long and complicated, largely owing to the fact that the Doctor's homeworld has been destroyed not once, but twice. First depicted in the 1969 serial The War Games, Gallifrey is the home planet of the Time Lords, the race of people to which the Doctor belongs.

Because of the Time Lock, along with the danger of creating a paradox, the Doctor is prevented from going back in time and saving the Time Lords.

In the episode (The timeless children) the doctor said no humans on Gallifrey.

Although other species have been seen using similar sonic probes, sonic screwdrivers are predominantly referred to as Gallifreyan technology.

Time Lords are extremely long-lived, routinely counting their ages in terms of centuries; the Second Doctor claimed in The War Games that Time Lords could live "practically forever, barring accidents." The series has suggested that Time Lords have a different concept of ageing from humans.

The War and Tenth Doctors learn from the Eleventh Doctor that, due to their time streams being "out of sync" with his, they will not remember what happened. The War Doctor begins to regenerate after leaving.

It clearly states that the Doctor's real name is d³∑x₂, which should be pronounce "Delta Cubed Sigma X Squared" in english. Obviously that's a pretty long name, and what do you call people by when they have long names? Nicknames. And as we all know, the Doctor's nickname in the academy was "Theta Sigma".

You would also expect a slightly longer day (1.3 * 24hr would make a day about 31.2 hours long equivalent) and a longer year by about equivalent ...

Is the Doctor actually from Gallifrey? ›

Jodie Whittaker's era became defined by the revelation that the Doctor was not from Gallifrey but was found by a Gallifreyan and raised as one. Not only is the Doctor not Gallifreyan but from another universe entirely, as the Doctor was discovered by explorer Tecteun in a wormhole.

During this time, the incarnation must choose whether or not to regenerate. Once the period is over, if the Time Lord chooses not to regenerate, they will permanently die.

Dalek Caan overcame the lock on the Time War after making an emergency temporal shift and travelled back to the Gates of Elysium to save Davros. The process flooded Caan's mind with total knowledge of the past, present and future, driving him insane.

Rassilon intended for regeneration to be reserved for only the Gallifreyan elite. According to this account, another reason that Rassilon imposed a limit of twelve regenerations was to avoid decaying biogenic molecules.

Size. Gallifrey is about 120,225 kilometres in circumference, three times that of Sol III. Despite this, it has around the same gravity as Earth, likely due to being less dense and therefore having less mass.

Level 10: The Species have developed basic time travel technology. Earth in the 51st century is a Level 10 planet. Level 11: The Species have developed advanced time travel technology. Gallifrey is a Level 11 planet.

in TDOTD the 10th Doctor says that their are 2.47Billion children on Gallifrey which is 0.57Billion more than on Earth which isn't a huge number considering how much older and bigger Gallifrey is.

Size and Distance

With an equatorial diameter of about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers), Eris is about 1/5 the width of Earth. Eris, like Pluto, is a little smaller than Earth's Moon. If the Earth were the size of a nickel, Eris would be about as big as a popcorn kernel.