''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 ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the u ...

''. Cox covers topics including the nature of

black hole A black hole is a region of spacetime where gravitation, gravity is so strong that nothing, including light or other Electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic waves, has enough energy to escape it. The theory of general relativity predicts t ...

s, time dilation, time as a dimension in which to travel and the possibilities of alien life. The lecture is held at the

Royal Institution The Royal Institution of Great Britain (often the Royal Institution, Ri or RI) is an organisation for scientific education and research, based in the City of Westminster. It was founded in 1799 by the leading British scientists of the age, inc ...

's lecture hall and interspersed with small segments of Cox on the TARDIS with the Eleventh Doctor, played by Matt Smith.

Home media

The lecture was released on DVD and Blu-ray on 8 September 2014 as an added extra on the limited edition ''Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Collection Boxset'', where it was re-titled ''A Night with the Stars: The Science of Doctor Who''.

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* 2013 in British television Works about Doctor Who BBC television documentaries BBC television documentaries about science 2013 television films 2013 films 2013 in science 2010s British films {{sci-documentary-film-stub