Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel / Michio Kaku.
New York : Anchor Books, c2009Description: xxi, 329 p. : ill. ; 21 cmISBN:- 0307278824 :
- 9780307278821 (pbk.) :
- 530 22
- QC75 .K18 2009
- UB 5020
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Includes bibliographical references (p.[317]-318) and index.
Class I impossibilities: Force fields -- Invisibility -- Phasers and death stars -- Teleportation -- Telepathy -- Psychokinesis -- Robots -- Extraterrestrials and UFOs -- Starships -- Antimatter and Anti-universe -- Class II impossibilities: Faster than light -- Time travel -- Parallel universes -- Class III impossibilities: Perpetual motion machines -- Precognition -- Epilogue: The future of the impossible.
A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible--from death rays and force fields to invisibility cloaks--revealing to what extent such technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.
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