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The Science of Doctor Who

Name: The Science of Doctor Who
Brand: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
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By Paul Parsons
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Release Date: August 14, 2010
Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 328

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Almost fifty years after he first crossed the small screen, Doctor Who remains a science fiction touchstone. His exploits are thrilling, his world is mind-boggling, and that time travel machineknown as the Tardisis almost certainly an old-fashioned blue police box, once commonly found in London.

Paul Parsons's plain-English account of the real science behind the fantastic universe portrayed in the Doctor Who television series provides answers to such burning questions as whether a sonic screwdriver is any use for putting up a shelf, how Cybermen make little Cybermen, where the toilets are in the Tardis, and much more.

Taking the show as a starting pointepisode-by-episode in some casesParsons dissects its scientific concepts. In addition to explaining why time travel is possible and just how that blue police box works, Parsons

discusses who the Time Lords are and how we may one day be able to regenerate just like them

ponders the ways that the doctor's two hearts might work and introduces us to a terrestrial animal with five

details the alien populations and cosmology of the Whovian Universe and relates them to what we currently know about our universe

compares the robotics of the show with startlingly similar real-world applications

This slender, equation-free discussion is penned by a Ph.D. cosmologist and is ideal beach reading for anyone who loves science and watches the showno matter which planet the beach is on.

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Eleven Doctors
Part I: Doctor in the Tardis
1. Who Is the Doctor?
2. Time and Relative Dimension in Space, or Tardis
3. Into the Vortex
4. Regeneration
5. One Giant Leap for DIY
6. Partners in Time
Part II: Aliens of London and Beyond
7. Other Worlds
8. Carnival of Monsters
9. The Cybermen
10. The Daleks
11. The Slitheen
12. The Autons
13. The Silurians and the Sea Devils
14. The Sontarans
15. Martians, Go Home!
16. The Krynoid
17. Stupid Apes
18. Exile to Earth
19. The Human Empire
20. Invasion Earth
Part III: Robot Dogs, Psychic Paper, and Other Celestial Toys
21. Scanning for Alien Tech
22. Just What the Doctor Ordered
23. K-9 and Company
24. Psychic Paper
25. Space-flight
26. Space Stations and Moonbases
27. Bombs, Bullets, and Death Rays
28. Force Fields
29. The Matrix
Part IV: Mission to the Unknown
30. Event One
31. The Eye of Harmony and Other Black Holes
32. Journeys through E-Space
33. Strange Stars and Mirror Planets
34. The More Things Change
35. The End of Time
Epilogue
List fo Episodes by Doctor
Further Reading
Index

""Parsons, a scientist and journalist, is an unabashed fan of Doctor Who and does a good job of making the convoluted plots and characters decipherable, even to non-aficionados, and of explaining the research and science, often cutting edge, that has even a change of making the plots possible... Useful as popular reading and in courses covering the science of science fiction.""

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