Watching the telly

[den]

I just saw Dr Who shut down a runaway reactor by reversing the polarity of the neutron flow.

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[wyrm.livejournal.com]

You have to remember that he's a Time Lord with a vastly superior knowledge of Physics to mere human mortals. It's probably that he's trying to communicate something for which there isn't a word in English, but the nearest appropriate one is 'polarity' (which doesn't have to mean charge of course).