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Temporal Anomaly Findings Printout

The printout presents Clare's results from the physics lab experiments on the mysterious book, revealing it possesses no detectable atomic structure and returns a carbon dating result of minus twenty thousand years. The document is a single sheet of paper covered in dense scientific calculations, with red ink highlighting the impossible anomaly. As the Doctor handles it, the paper feels unnaturally weightless, as if barely present, and the numbers seem to subtly shift when viewed from different angles. The text warns in bold print that the artifact violates every known law of matter and time.
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S17E22 · Shada Part 2
Doctor uncovers books temporal reversal

The printout becomes the fulcrum of revelation when Clare tears it free from the CET machine’s output tray. It serves as the tangible evidence that collapses the Doctor’s initial theories and forces acknowledgment of temporal reversal. The paper’s anomalous lightness and shifting numerals underscore the impossibility of the data it bears.

Before: Freshly emerged from the CET machine, its data dense but unread, the printout sits unexamined with raw experimental values still vivid.
After: Crushed tightly in Clare’s grip and then thrust at the Doctor, its red-inked anomaly now foregrounded. The artifact’s information has been weaponized to catalyze urgent action.
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