Science fiction often provides the imaginative leap which drives science fact into making things happen for real. And in return, science fact opens doors into rooms science ficition writers never imagined were there. It’s an almost symbiotic relationship (assuming the scientists are the sort that enjoy Doctor Who as entertainment and don’t hoot at the physical impossibilities on display). So here are five things which exist as fanciful astonishments in the Whoniverse, but which could easily (and in some cases DO easily) exist in our real world...
