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How good is Doctor Who's TARDIS really? Instruments of Space & Time | Physics vs Film (and TV)

Martin Archer
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Published on Apr 11, 2017

The TARDIS can travel all of time and space, everything that ever happened or ever will... except it frequently turns up at the wrong place or time. But even with these mishaps, how does it measure up against our best instruments of space and time?

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01:11 Accuracy vs Precision and Relative Precision
02:17 Atomic Clocks and the Definition of the Second
03:40 LIGO and Spektr-R, our Best Instruments for Measuring Space
05:20 How big is the universe? TARDIS precision in space
07:42 When will the universe end? TARDIS precision in time


Links for more information

The Doctor's TARDIS
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/The_Doct...
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5720207/when-d...


TARDIS on Street View
https://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=...

Real life TARDIS?
https://futurism.com/is-tardis-travel...

Our Best Clock
http://www.sciencealert.com/physicist...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.03908

Spektr-R/RadioAstron and the Highest Resolution Astronomical Image
https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressrel...
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01...
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.04690v1

LIGO
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LIGO

Curvature of the Universe
https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.02469
https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.01589

Heat Death of the Universe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_...


Music by SP3CtruM

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