Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel
(2009, original release: 2008)
By:
Kaku, Michio
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
530/KAKU,M
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2009]
©2008
©2008
EDITION
First Anchor books edition
DESCRIPTION
xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780307278821, 0307278824 :, 0307278824, 9780307278821
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Originally published: New York : Doubleday, ©2008
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
CONTENTS
Class I impossibilities. Force fields ;
Invisibility ;
Phasers and death stars ;
Teleportation ;
Telepathy ;
Psychokinesis ;
Robots ;
Extraterrestrials and UFOs ;
Starships ;
Antimatter and Anti-universes --
Class II impossibilities. Faster than light ;
Time travel ;
Parallel universes --
Class III impossibilities. Perpetual motion machines ;
Precognition ;The future of the impossible