Series 9 of Doctor Who started off with a bang, delivering the good, the bad and the WTF we’ve come to expect. “The Magician’s Apprentice” is half of a 2-part story. Here’s what I got out of the season’s big premiere.Have You Ever Seen a Hand Mine?When done well, the time travel genre can express […]
“Traversable Achronal Retrograde Domains In Spacetime”, written by physicists Ben Tippett and David Tsang (2013), suggests the TARDIS is scientifically possible. Joshua Filmer (From Quarks to Quasars): “In order for a TARDIS to function, it needs to exist in a universe where the construction of closed timelike curves (CTCs) is possible. A closed timelike curve […]
Jesse McDougall for GOOD Magazine: “The Doctor is right. The speed at which time passes is both variable and malleable. We can speed it up. We can slow it down. In fact, you do so every day without even knowing it.” Excellent article from 2013. McDougall does a great job of using the physics of […]