The Science of Doctor Who (2013)

Directed by

Brian Cox

Genre

documentary, tv movie

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Physicist Brian Cox gives a lecture about real space and time ideas that connect to the TV show Doctor Who. He talks about black holes, time travel, and alien life while standing in the Royal Institution lecture hall. There are short scenes where Cox chats with the Eleventh Doctor inside the TARDIS.

educationalinformativelightheartedcuriousspeculativeplayfulintellectual

What happens

The Science of Doctor Who is a televised lecture by physicist Brian Cox discussing the nature of space and time as related to the science fiction series Doctor Who. Cox covers topics including the nature of black holes, time dilation, time as a dimension in which to travel and the possibilities of alien life. The lecture is held at the Royal Institution's lecture hall and interspersed with small segments of Cox on the TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Wonders of Life (2013)
• Wonders of the Universe (2011)
• Human Universe (2014)
• The Planets (2019)
• Forces of Nature (2016)
• Wonders of the Solar System (2010)
• Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
• Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014)