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)