A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
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Published Mar 2008
352 pages
Genre: Science, Health and the Environment
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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.
One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, the renowned physicist Michio Kaku explores to what extent the technologies and devices of science fiction that are deemed equally impossible today might well become commonplace in the future.
... In a compelling and thought-provoking narrative, he explains:
"Science and science fiction buffs can easily follow Kaku's explanations as he shows that in the wonderful worlds of science, impossible things are happening every day." - Publishers Weekly.
"This tour de force of science and imagination is for advanced high school students and up." - Library Journal.
"Starred Review." - Kirkus Reviews.
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Michio Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the cofounder of string field theory and has written several books, including Parallel Worlds and Beyond Einstein, and his bestseller, Hyperspace.
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