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A Teaspoon and an Open Mind: The Science of Doctor Who (Hardcover)

by Michael White (Author)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Allen Lane (3 Nov 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0713999055
ISBN-13: 978-0713999051
Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 2.4 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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How do you build a Tardis? What are the secrets of teleportation? Could Cybermen take over the world? Is telepathy possible – even for an alien? Will extra-terrestrials one day visit planet earth on their travels through the galaxy? Can a robotic dog catch a cold …? Take a journey with the Time Lords as Michael White guides us through the real science behind Doctor Who. Here he shows us how one of the world’s best-loved science-fiction programmes is actually based on genuine theories – some of which could soon become a reality. Drawing on the latest discoveries, on shows from Star Trek to The X-Files and films like Twelve Monkeys and Contact, he asks (among other things): is time travel possible through a wormhole? What are the dangers? Could we make contact with life on other planets? How could aliens get here? And how soon until creatures like the Daleks become a reality? He also looks at areas as varied as crystal power, robotics, shape-shifting and multi-dimensions, not to mention the mysterious science of ‘chameleon technology’ currently under study by major military research organizations. We even discover how, with the use of cybernetics to replace body parts – or maybe regenerate whole bodies – Doctor Who could hold the key to eternal life. A book for avid fans and the merely curious, A Teaspoon and an Open Mind reveals that reality is even stranger than science fiction …

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1.0 out of 5 stars I'd have given it zero stars if I could, 14 Nov 2005

By	"andybleaugh" - See all my reviews

Oh dear. I hope that sufficient people will pick this up in the bookshop, spot the spelling mistake on the first page (what Dr Who tie-in can't even spell Jon Pertwee right?) and put it straight back on the shelf. This is a really shameless attempt to capitalise on the current success of the series and it is hard to avoid the impression that Michael White knows nothing at all about Dr Who - and why should he, he's a jobbing writer just trying to earn an honest buck. But if his research into science is as shoddy as his research into Dr Who then I wouldn't trust anything in this book. To be fair I only spotted two errors to do with the TV series, but as there were only around two facts this was a disappointing hit rate. For the record, the other error was to do with the naming of the first ever episode - obviously something that there is a lot of controversy about - which Mike clears up by assuring us that it was simply called 'Episode One'! Oh dear, oh dear. And the only other basis on which Mike accounts for his writing of this book is that...he used to live near Tom Baker and would occasionally bump into him down the shops. Please don't buy this book.

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1.0 out of 5 stars I'd like to know what Romana thinks of this, 27 Jan 2008

By	Hannah Snell "mdbvw" - See all my reviews

Unfortunately (for I like the title) this book hasn't got much to do with Doctor Who and doesn't explain science very well.
I think the problem is that it's simply much too short to talk about any of its topics in great depth, and so the author often just tells us things without explaining why they are so, or how scientists came to think this or that. Then again, when he does explain something, I often feel talked down to, as when he says: "Now, you might wonder, if the consequences of relativity are true facts, then why don't we experience them every day of our lives?" Because we're incredibly slow compared to the speed of light, I thought, so they're incredibly small and we don't notice them. Two rhetorical questions later (in one of which he appeared to confuse mass and weight) he finally says just that.
As for Doctor Who, it's just the hook for the scientific topics: 'Doctor Who is about time travel, so let me tell you all I know about time travel. There are aliens in Doctor Who, so let me tell you all I know about aliens.' Apart from putting the time travel chapter first, it could have been called The Science of Star Trek without changing much of the content; especially when, at the beginning of the chapter on interstellar travel, he admits that this doesn't play a big role in Doctor Who, but adds that it does in other scifi series, films and books, so he's going to talk about it anyway. When he does mention Doctor Who, he makes mistakes that are to the fan what confusing weight and mass is to the physicist: "... the malevolent aliens ... who regularly clash with Doctor Who and many other science-fiction heroes" (... but the name is italicised anyway just to be confusing.) He claims that Tom Baker was one of his two favourite Doctors, and that "'Time Ladies' are never mentioned in Doctor Who." I wish to return my copy of City of Death on the grounds that it must be some sort of complex illusion and doesn't really exist.
It's only in the epilogue (8 pages) that he finally goes into some Who-specific things - but even there he quickly gets from chameleon circuits to stealth vessels, after having dismissed transdimensionality as almost certainly impossible, in one short paragraph, without explaining why.
In short, I was disappointed both as a fan of Doctor Who and as someone interested in what the author calls "pretty far-out physics".

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4.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking book, 29 Sep 2006

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Michael White has simply taken some of his previous research from superscience and the x-files and combined them in this book and incorporated new scientific research. His descriptions of gene and nano technology, robotics and cloning were the clearest explanations thus far of these very controversial subjects.

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4.0 out of 5 stars an interesting book thats simple
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