Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

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).
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Why did the Doctor lie about finding Gallifrey?

Later, The Doctor lies about Gallifrey to spare Clara the choice between him and PE (he assumes Pink has come back). Clara lies to The Doctor about Pink so that he can go back to Gallifrey without worrying about her.
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Is Gallifrey bigger than Earth?

We now know that the radius of Gallifrey is 1.577e7 meters, or roughly 2.47 times the radius of Earth.
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Why was Gallifrey time locked?

The entirety of the Time War and Gallifrey's history was it in a time lock, Gallifrey was locked so as to prevent the Daleks from going back on time preventing Time Lords from coming into being, the war itself was locked away to heal the damage done to the web of time in addition to preventing the evils from escaping.
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Who destroyed Gallifrey the second time?

It's revealed that the Master destroyed Gallifrey in Doctor Who during the second part of its two-part season 12 premiere, "Spyfall." The Master (Sacha Dhawan) reveals in a holographic message to the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) that he is responsible for the planet being in ruins after he discovered about "the ...
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How long is a Gallifreyan year?

So 237 Gallifreyan Years is equal to 209 Earth Years. This means one Earth Year is 1.133971291866 Gallifreyan Years.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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How did Clara end up in Gallifrey in listen?

The planet was "lost", and The Doctor said he was going to look for it - but it found him first. The crack from Amy's wall, which we learned was a crack in space and time, apparently linked Gallifrey to The Doctor as Clara was able to speak to them through it.
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Why do the Time Lords hate the Doctor?

The Daleks are genetically programmed to consider themselves the supreme beings in the universe, and they never forgot that moment of vulnerability, hating the Doctor for being - in their view - superior to them.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. As previously stated Time Lords were the ruling class of the planet Gallifrey when Doctor Who was introduced.
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Is the Doctor Gallifreyan?

The Doctor is no longer from Gallifrey

She's found as a child on a planet far from Gallifrey, though it's implied that even this remote world is not her true home and that she actually arrived from somewhere else via the Boundary, a gateway to other parts of the universe. So the Doctor is not Gallifreyan.
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What is the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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What is Gallifreyan writing?

Instead of being character/letter based like English, circular Gallifreyan is based, as the name implies, on circles. The symbols that make up letters are collected into words by larger word-circles. Many word-circles are collected together in even larger sentence-circles.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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Who burned Gallifrey?

Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor managed to eventually find his way home, but the 2-part premiere of season 12 (now under the leadership of Chris Chibnall) changed the game again, revealing Gallifrey had been destroyed by the Master in anger after he found out the secret of the Timeless Child.
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Is Gallifrey still time locked?

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).
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How old are the Time Lords?

In Pyramids of Mars, the Fourth Doctor considers an age of 750 years to be "middle-aged". In "The Stolen Earth", the Tenth Doctor refers to when his original incarnation was a "kid" at 90 years old. However, within a specific incarnation, a Time Lord is able to age, albeit much more slowly than a human.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Does Clara become a Dalek?

She is the sole survivor of the starship Alaska, which crashed on the Asylum, a prison planet for insane Daleks. Oswin then learns from the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) that she has been converted from human into a Dalek and has coped by retreating into a fantasy of her own intact survival.
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Why did the Doctor have to forget Clara?

Because it wasn't safe for the two of them to be together any more. The Doctor himself says (when recounting his adventures to Clara in the diner, when he doesn't know who she is): DOCTOR: There was only one way to keep Clara safe. I had to wipe some of her memory.
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Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.
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Does the Doctor love Clara or river?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that. It also seems that anytime River claims the Doctor doesn't love her, the Doctor looks rather uncomfortable (or at least 12 did).
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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