Atime bubble (PROSE:Mindwarp,The Crystal Bucephalus,The Eight Doctors) alternatively stylised asTime Bubble (AUDIO:The World Tree) and also called astasis bubble, was apocket dimension, (PROSE:The Crystal Bucephalus) a four-dimensional sphere (AUDIO:The Eternal Summer) that occurred when an individual met their past or future self under certain circumstances, or by intervention of theTime Lords. A bubble resulted intime being frozen save for the individual who caused it or, in reverse, frozen only for the individual who was trapped in it. The bubble would quickly deteriorate and normal time would resume.^{[additional sources needed]}

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TheEighth Doctor caused time bubbles when he was visiting his past incarnations to reclaim lost memories which froze time around former companions and people near his previous selves so they would not notice his presence. (PROSE:The Eight Doctors)

The Time Lords captured the KingYrcanos in a time bubble onThoros Beta, in order to release him at the right time for an attack to the laboratory ofCrozier — whose work they wanted to be wiped out. (TV:Mindwarp)

In the court onSpace Station Zenobia, theSixth Doctor andthe Valeyard were put in a time bubble for fivemicrospans for consultation. No one outside the bubble were able to see or hear what was going on. (AUDIO:Trial of the Valeyard)

Fyodor Nikolai Kerensky's experiments in time, andScaroth's method of time travel, had the appearance of a time bubble. According to theFourth Doctor andRomana, the time bubbles were useless as time travel method without special equipment. The Doctor noted the time bubbles were a different but incompatible time continuum. (TV:City of Death)

Due to an explodingRutanwarp core engine,Stockbridge became trapped in a 60 year time bubble/stasis field. (AUDIO:The Eternal Summer)

Battle TARDISes could firetime torpedoes to trap targets within stasis bubbles.Karlax and theCIA fired at theWar Doctor'sTARDIS, temporarily freezing it in a temporal bubble, although this was a bluff by the Doctor since he had upgraded the TARDIS shields. (PROSE:Engines of War)

A time bubble was used to stop the star in theBeart system from goingsupernova. TheUnon had the ability to deactivate the time bubble. (COMIC:Weapons of Past Destruction)

Robert Knox'time barrier was also known as a time bubble. (AUDIO:Medicinal Purposes)

Omegon became trapped in a crimson bubble of time, into which he began drawing spaceships which he planned to use to attackGallifrey. (PROSE:K9 and the Time Trap)

River Song's World occurred in an isolated time bubble, prior to its negation. (TV:The Wedding of River Song)

TheEleventh Doctor kept theWorld Tree in a time bubble on the19th of August,1987 in order for its growth to be reset whilst he tried to find it a home. He accidentally caughtNora Wicker and her house in this bubble and visited her in its loops. (AUDIO:The World Tree)