Bottle universe A bottle universe was a phenomenon in which the entire contents of a universe were scaled down and placed within a bottle . The owner of a bottle universe had some degree of control over its contents , but many aspects took place of their own accord . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) There was a series of bottle universes within bottle universes ; many of which had versions of Time Lord s inside them . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " , " Interference - Book Two " , " Alien Bodies " ) Several times , Time Lords made attempts to migrate from their bottle universe to the bottle universe inside their bottle universe in order to escape from powerful danger . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " , " Dead Romance " , " Interference - Book Two " ) Known bottles . The universe of the War . While meditating in Qixotl ' s ziggurat , Kortez journeyed into the astral plane and had a vision of the Eighth Doctor saying that their universe , the universe home to the War , was inside a bottle . ( PROSE : " Alien Bodies " ) I . M . Foreman ' s bottle . I . M . Foreman created the bottle universe and played with the mechanics of it while on Foreman ' s World . It was stolen from her by the Time Lord s while she and the Eighth Doctor slept . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Seventh Doctor ' s bottle . In Foreman ' s bottle , ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " , " Interference " ) the Seventh Doctor acquired a bottle universe by the time of his encounter with the Carnival Queen . Chris Cwej and Marielle Duquesne discovered the bottle universe mounted in the corner of a brass room in the Doctor ' s TARDIS . They looked inside and saw the version of San Francisco inside the bottle ; Cwej observed that the version of the Doctor inside the bottle had parked his TARDIS in San Francisco . ( PROSE : " Christmas on a Rational Planet " ) Christine Summerfield ' s home universe . Another bottle universe was created by the sphinx es for the Gods of Dellah and secured by Chris Cwej while he was working for the Homeworld . Cwej opened a gateway for the Time Lords to invade and destroy the bottle universe version of 1970s Earth . ( PROSE : " Dead Romance " ) The Time Lords planned to use I . M . Foreman ' s bottle universe as a haven from the Enemy . Greyjan the Sane proposed the hypothesis that the Enemy were actually ancestor cell s energised by the leaking bottle . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " ) When Spring - heeled Jack looked into the Eighth Doctor ' s mind , he saw " a dull grey world in a bottle he couldn ' t wait to break " . ( COMIC : " The Curious Tale of Spring - Heeled Jack " ) Marnal ' s bottle . Marnal created a bottle universe when trying to discover the fate of Gallifrey after it had been destroyed . He later used it to track the Doctor through time and to also learn about what kind of person he was and was to become . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " ) Merging of bottle universes . After the Time Lords of the War universe stole Foreman ' s bottle universe , they kept it for safekeeping in the Time Vortex with plans to possibly colonise it to escape the Enemy . However , the four - dimensional nature of the Vortex caused a leak in the bottle and its universe began seeping out . Kristeva heard loa whispering that the complete mixing of realities was inevitable . ( PROSE : " The Ancestor Cell " )