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hi guys Claire Riley from seeing it here we've got a really special treat for the who viens out there today I've got robbed Lloyd the science buff Whovian and all-round comic genius behind the new show the science of Doctor Who the show that explores the fact and fiction alongside three scientists of the longest-running sci-fi show in the world thanks so much for coming to join us today well well thank you so much for just building me up a little bit too much oh no you got it you gotta build up a genius like you well I don't want to say I'm a genius I'll just I'll just let you do it and pay you later look um it's a really cool show I'm really excited by all the ideas behind it but when you say the science of Doctor Who I must I must admit I don't immediately think that things like time travel regeneration a TARDIS there's much larger on the inside than it is on the outside I don't really think of these things as scientific possibilities well you can't explain it well that's that's that's my opinion of as well when I first got into the idea of this show was and talking with the the people behind it arias is sort of like their outlandish ideas that's the great thing about the show it takes any possibility and it takes it as far as they can but then sitting down with the scientists involved with them finding out how does this actually work from a fundamental scientific basis the process of being able to travel you know travel forward in time or backward in time what realities do you need to have and to actually sit down with a group of scientists and not go oh it's just fantastical they go okay well let's look at it from a realistic point of view what you need to do to travel forwards in time is actually have a machine that's fast enough and they can actually sustain the pressure of traveling forwards in time and if you go fast enough at a certain point you can go you know move at the speed of light and when you're moving fast enough time slows down and so that means you can move forwards in time but you can never actually go back so you'd have to be really specific and we're in the future when I go and you have to really like it there the thing that's great about the show is that it seems to sort of go through different versions of science and different ideas that are getting picked up I mean how how much do you think the science of doctor who has changed over its 50 years it's evolved so much as 50 years five decades of announcements of theories of ideas of concepts of just way out radical thinking so in the 60s there was X explorations for the first time of cybernetics and replacing human body parts that was very new with science fiction in the 60s that's where the cyberpunk movement was first developing and so dr. Kipp peddler who was one of the writers on doctor who wrote the Cybermen and created the submarine from there and the 70s black holes were just named for the first time and so that was explored in the three doctors which was the 10th anniversary story in the early 80s christopher h bid meet who was one of the script writers he explored nothing but the latest in scientific theories he wanted to make the show less funny and whimsical and make it a really hardcore science fiction show so exploring dimensions and other dimensions and universes and how time works and can be manipulated so it's always been at the forefront of what is being explored in science as kids coming to access to show I mean there are some scary elements to the actual doctor who series but the science behind it you've obviously targeted that as a young audience and bringing them into the kind of scientific fold if you will why is that why is that so important how have you done that well you know it's doctor who can be scary but also science can be quite scary as well and for me it's a scary concept to try and wrap my head around all these big ideas and big thought so too have a show that is welcoming for people of all ages to come along and go no this isn't something that's difficult or hard it takes a lot of hard work but there's a lot of excitement and possibilities behind it so to bring kids in from a certain level to go these are the possibilities this is what we want to achieve and this is where it starts we want them to start asking questions that's what the sciences have been saying it all starts when you a scientists ask questions and try and find those answers so if we start them asking questions young that means they'll stay with the love of science all through their life so that's really cool and all what I love at the end of the show we have 20 minutes where they can actually the audience can make the scientists ask some questions or if they have any doctor who can in questions they can come and know with me and the scientists just get blown away with how many legitimate science questions they get from from from young kids in primary school or high school kids University students who are fascinated and interested and want to actually find out more about you know the science of not only Doctor Who but also their world around them awesome and so the show itself you were talking about audience participation and stuff you've kind of got a bit smart and savvy and techie with the audience participation tell me a bit about that well yeah we have to keep up with a Mon technology because now you know doctor who's got special effects that actually looked legitimate and then makeup and all that type of stuff is up to scratch so we've got a website that people can access from their smartphones or the tablets or whatever they're Androids or synthetic life-forms that they bring in and they go to this website on their web browser and questions we have games and activities where they can directly press a button it registers within our system and we showed up on the screen so we asked them whether they want to travel in time the past or the future we asked them about what do they think about life and other planets we also have big games like run or fight so we have a clip of a companion and finding out whether they run away from a situation or stay and fight and the big one is monster showdown where we have for the big monsters each of the scientists and myself have been allocated them and we plead the case and the audience decide which is the greatest monster of all time and who do you get to be I get to be the weeping angels oh yeah yes the but the other ones the beat of the Daleks always yeah doctor who explores scientific theories that could happen that may happen that and take it to the farthest possible possibility and that's what we explore in the show as well what is possible what is possible what could be possible in the future thanks so much for coming in and sharing your passionate about the show it's really great to have you and hopefully you'll be able to share that passion in that love with a whole bunch more people awesome hey thank you