Science of Doctor Who: The Scientific Facts Behind the Time Warps and Space Travels of the Doctor

by Mark Brake

Geek out over the TARDIS, aliens, alternate timelines, parallel worlds, and all your favorite characters from the Doctor Who Universe!Doctor Who arrived with the Space Age, when the Doctor first began exploring the universe in a time-traveling spaceship. Over half a century since, the Doctor has gone global. Millions of people across this planet enjoy Doctor Who in worldwide simulcast and cinema extravaganzas. Doctor Who has infused our minds and our language and made it much richer.What a fantastic world we inhabit through the Doctor. The program boils over withballsy women, bisexual companions, scientific passion, and a billion weird and wonderful alien worlds beyond our own. The show represents almost sixty years' worth of magical science-fiction storytelling. And Doctor Who is, despite being about a thousands-of-years-old alien with two hearts and a spacetime taxi made of wood, still one of our very best role models of what it is to be human in the twenty-first century.In The Science of Doctor Who, we take a peek under the hood of the TARDIS and explore the science behind questions such does Doctor Who tell us about space travel? Could the TARDIS really be bigger on the inside?In what ways does the Doctor view the end of our world? Is the Doctor right about alternate timelines and parallel worlds?Will intelligent machines ever rule the earth?Is the earth becoming more like Doctor Who's matrix?Is the Doctor a superhero? How do daleks defecate?So welcome to The Science of Doctor Who, where the Doctor steps smoothly in and out of different realities, faces earthly and unearthly threats with innovation and unpredictability, and successfully uses science in the pay of pacifist resistance!

Genres: Doctor Who

264 pages, Paperback

Published January 26, 2021

Reviews

[Dani Ledesma · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not an attempt to explain the potential science behind doctor who at all. Descriptive rather than explanatory, it reads as a brief history of doctor who rather than anything to do with the science. Highly disappointed. Plus the author has a rather sarcastic tone that is out of place for this topic.

[Richard Potter · Rating 1 out of 5]

Are you curious how the Tardis could be bigger on the inside? Guess what... this book doesn't tell you. It doesn't really tell you anything.

This book barely deals with the classic era. It is filled with references to episodes from the re-booted show, which is not terrible, but you're buying this book to read the theories behind how the tech in the show works and that is just not in here.

I love the "Science of" books. The Science of Superheroes is amazing. So is The Science of Super Villains. But this one barely talks about science. It doesn't really explain the scientific theories behind the technology in Doctor Who.

[Richard Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

Provides some great links between the monsters/aliens and qctual science. It is easily accessible to younger readers as well as older; probably 13+, and the language is not too dense as to make comprehension difficult. The liks to certain Doctors and episodes is also useful for those who visualise what is on the page. A must read fir Doctir Who fans.

[Kieran McAndrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

A sparkling whistle stop tour of some of the real life scientific principles which underpin the 'Doctor Who' universe.

Brake explains things clearly and concisely, his book serving as a good introduction to physics.

[Kari · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not really the science behind doctor who so much as the history of where concepts came from for the big ideas of the show

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not quite what I expected. I thought it would delve more into the scientific theory behind what the show did, but at times it just felt like a criticism of some of the show's storylines.