The Science of Doctor Who

00:00:00 Blowing your mind, that's what Doctor Who's all about.

00:02:05 Although it doesn't look pretty from the outside

00:04:03 I'm fine, fine. It's just...

00:05:49 We will have invisibility within the coming decades.

00:07:40 I'd probably give it a 2.

00:09:32 We travel through our lives, sort of progressing through time--

00:11:28 because of what we call paradoxes.

00:13:12 I think you have just saved my life.

00:14:45 The only way we can try and understand this from the modern, scientific perspective

00:16:59 Geronimo!!

00:18:49 or the human residence will be incinerated.

00:20:22 Why would they communicate by exchanging sound waves?

00:22:19 The Doctor is coming!

00:24:03 Eventually, they work out that it's the Cybermen stealing people

00:26:08 Everybody loves the Daleks. It's amazing.

00:27:48 Also we have cochlear implants.

00:29:44 is that we've replaced the computers as the brains of the robot

00:31:28 The race with the superior intelligence, the superior bodies, able to do a lot more

00:33:29 Because I think with every new series of Doctor Who, it grows.

00:35:37 It walks around, it can wag its tail, and it's got two satellites for ears.

00:37:44 "It'd be great if we could clone you." And I always think, yeah?

00:39:26 Plumbing in.

00:41:05 Most pets can be cloned. We can clone horses, dogs, cats.

00:42:52 There was a time where science fiction seemed like it was so far away, like