The science of Dr Who

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[RegMolehusband]

We are not seeing it in sequence as the audience saw it. The blackboard diagrams on the right change. We saw his own timeline points before we saw him draw them. Must be time travel involved!

[AndyBrew]

I like the light clock 'thought experiment' I read about that in one of his books, it is so easy to understand but at the same time mind boggling!

[llewop]

fell asleep before the end: not sure if due to me being tired or the pedestrian pace of the explanations



shame - I was looking forward to it and hoping they would have explored more than 2-3 ideas

[SV8Predator]

llewop said:

fell asleep before the end: not sure if due to me being tired or the pedestrian pace of the explanations



shame - I was looking forward to it and hoping they would have explored more than 2-3 ideas

I'm so sorry you were disappointed.

The demonstration on time dilation theory was terrific. Easy to understand and made the point visually, showing quite clearly how time dilation works even at (obviously)very slow speeds.

[hornet]

On a related note, Jim Al-Khalili has a new two parter starting tomorrow :-

https://twitter.com/jimalkhalili

[GnuBee]

ash73 said:

Thought the Jim Al-Khalili programmes were very good (as usual), much more satisfying content.

Light and Dark has been very good but it's targeted at a different demographic to The Science of Doctor Who surely. Hidden away on BBC4 and lacking an association to a prime BBC1 series I reckon the beeb could be pretty confident it would be a certain "type" of viewer who'd watch and the content was tuned accordingly.

The Science of Doctor Who was likewise tuned and very well in fact given that the BBC thinks Richard Hammond + CGI = digestible science I reckon we got lucky.