Day 527: The Leisure Hive Part 2

Another short blog today, as I'm busy staring at a series of laboratory results desperately trying to figure out how Physics works. But funnily enough science is key to my entry today. The new script editor is a chap called Christopher H Bidmead, a writer with a keen scientific eye, having previously contributed articles to New Scientist. As such, various scenes over the next year or so will be more scientific than usual, such as a scene in this episode where we do an experiment in tachyonics. This consist mainly of Romana working with another scientist as they try to make the sand in an hourglass flow backwards. The main flow of the scene is them staring at the glass, turning the power up, staring at the glass again, and so on. It's actually rather gripping, half because it's well put together by Lovett Bickford, but also because it's all about science, and the thrill of trying something new in order to achieve results. So as I stare at my relfection coefficients and try various techniques in order to get an answer that is scientifically viable, I'll think of The Leisure Hive and how they were able to, for a moment, turn back time.