{"id":270,"date":"2011-04-01T00:05:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T04:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=270"},"modified":"2011-05-05T14:32:09","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T18:32:09","slug":"perplexities-of-doctor-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/?p=270","title":{"rendered":"Perplexities of Doctor Who"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-364\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/Doctor-Who-Rose-300x290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/Doctor-Who-Rose-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/Doctor-Who-Rose.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For our project, we plan to explore some of the concepts that arise in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0436992\/\">Doctor Who<\/a>. \u00a0One concept that we will discuss is the planet orbiting a black hole in the episode \u201c<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0772457\/\">The Impossible Planet<\/a><\/em>\u201d.\u00a0 We would like to discuss what forces would enable this orbiting to occur.<\/p>\n<p>We will also investigate the quantum mechanical concepts involved in the series\u2019 alternate realities, including a discussion of the possibility of jumping between these realities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/6a01156f09397b970c0133f57ca5c6970b-800wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-367\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/6a01156f09397b970c0133f57ca5c6970b-800wi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/6a01156f09397b970c0133f57ca5c6970b-800wi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/files\/2011\/03\/6a01156f09397b970c0133f57ca5c6970b-800wi.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Moreover, we will\u00a0analyze the feasibility of laser and electrical weapons as they are portrayed on the show multiple times, especially in the Dalek race.<\/p>\n<p>We will present this project as a paper\/extended blog post with embedded video clips demonstrating the concepts in question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff For our project, we plan to explore some of the concepts that arise in Doctor Who. \u00a0One concept that we will discuss is the planet orbiting a black hole in the episode \u201cThe Impossible Planet\u201d.\u00a0 We would like to discuss what forces would enable this orbiting to occur. We will also investigate the quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5538,5535,5536,5537,5523],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-black-hole","tag-doctor-who","tag-parallel-worlds","tag-quantum-mechanics","tag-lasers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1301,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/1301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ltt\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}