A 15-year-old Doctor Who theory about space-time might actually be true, a scientific breakthrough has suggested.
Professor Jonathan Oppenheim, a physicist at University College London, has come up with a new theory that could change how we think about "spacetime". It suggests time may not just tick away predictably, but wobbles and fluctuates unpredictably, reports The Express.
This would support a theory first suggested in the BBC series. The 10th Doctor, played by David Tennant, famously declared in 2007: "People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect but actually, from a non-linear, nonsubjective viewpoint it's more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly, time-wimey stuff."
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The phrase is one of the series' most iconic and is used throughout the show to explain the complexity of time – and how humans don't really understand it. But Oppenheim now reckons there could be more truth to the quote than originally thought.
"The rate at which time flows is changing randomly and fluctuating in time," said Oppenheim, although he clarifies that time would never actually go into reverse. "It's quite mathematical," he added. "Picturing it in your head is quite difficult."
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Spacetime takes the dimensions of space and time and imagines it in a four-dimensional model, which helps scientists understand complex ideas such as how different observers understand and perceive where and when events occur. The spacetime theorem is a radical new one which flies in the face of two existing pillars of physics.
Quantum mechanics understands the science through the forces that dominate on the atomic level. Meanwhile, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts how gravity shapes cosmic events. Neither has been proven wrong – but they are mathematically incompatible.
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