{"id":167091,"date":"2023-07-07T18:24:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/doctor-who-gets-one-piece-of-time-travel-exactly-right-according-to-scientists"},"modified":"2023-07-07T18:24:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T23:24:02","slug":"doctor-who-gets-one-piece-of-time-travel-exactly-right-according-to-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/doctor-who-gets-one-piece-of-time-travel-exactly-right-according-to-scientists","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Who Gets One Piece Of Time Travel Exactly Right According To Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doctor-who-gets-one-piece-of-time-travel-exactly-right-according-to-scientists2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Astrophysicist Geraint Lewis of the University of Sydney in Australia recently authored a study about time dilation and said that <em>Doctor Who<\/em>\u2019s description of time travel is accurate, as we truly don\u2019t yet understand the limitations of time (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/space\/ferocious-black-holes-reveal-time-dilation-early-universe-2023-07-03\/\">Reuters<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Sci-fi shows like <em>Doctor Who<\/em> can usually rely on the audience\u2019s suspension of disbelief when diving into heady concepts, and the science doesn\u2019t always have to be accurate \u2014 though it is much cooler when a show gets the science right. Apparently, the long-running BBC series can take pride in the fact that the Doctor\u2019s description of time as \u2018wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey stuff, is co-opted by real-life astrophysicists.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, theoretical concepts like time travel and warp drives could be possible, or they may not be. Maybe a Time Lord out there uses a British police box to travel through time. Okay, so <em><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.giantfreakinrobot.com\/topic\/doctor-who\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Doctor Who\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Doctor Who<\/a><\/em> probably isn\u2019t right about that part, but there technically is still a chance that it is!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astrophysicist Geraint Lewis of the University of Sydney in Australia recently authored a study about time dilation and said that Doctor Who\u2019s description of time travel is accurate, as we truly don\u2019t yet understand the limitations of time (via Reuters). Sci-fi shows like Doctor Who can usually rely on the audience\u2019s suspension of disbelief when [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}