Doctor Who & The End

DOCTOR WHO AND THE END OF THE UNIVERSE

Posted by anthonynorth on June 19th, 2007 @ Beyond the Blog

Utopia (BBC1 – 16 June) took Doctor Who to the end of the universe. It wasn’t quite clear whether this meant the end, meaning edge, or end, meaning finished, but I’ll assume the latter; although it was surprising to find a complete planet at the end, peopled by the remains of humanity. One would expect the ‘end’ to be different to this.
Never mind. Anything can be forgiven with Doctor Who. And there was a nice irony that they were building a rocket to save them. It was going to take then to Utopia; which does, of course, mean ‘nowhere.’ Even with the Doctor, there is oblivion in the end.

BIG BANG ONWARDS

The idea of the end of the universe is a natural continuation of it having a beginning in the Big Bang. Here, the universe was created in a moment of time by a sudden expansion of a ‘singularity.’
Most people consider the singularity to be a huge ball of matter. Infact, it is nothing more than a mathematical point of infinity. That’s the thing with Big Bang – it is all to do with math.
At the point of rapid expansion, basic particles were released into what became the universe. Over time, gravity condensed matter into stars, which exploded in supernova, having cooked heavier particles, which went on to form more stars and planets.

AT THE END OF THE ROAD...