Overview
Teleportation, time machines, force fields, and interstellar space ships—the stuff of science fiction or potentially attainable future technologies? Inspired by the fantastic worlds of Star Trek, Star Wars, and Back to the Future, renowned theoretical physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku takes an informed, serious, and often surprising look at what our current understanding of the universe's physical laws may permit in the near and distant future.Entertaining, informative, and imaginative, Physics of the Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: CLASS I IMPOSSIBILITIES
1. Force fields
2. Invisibility
3. Phasers and death stars
4. Teleportation
5. Telepathy
6. Psychokinesis
7. Robots
8. Extraterrestrials and UFOs
9. Starships
10. Antimatter and anti-universes
PART II: CLASS II IMPOSSIBILITIES
11. Faster than light
12. Time travel
13. Parallel universes
PART III: CLASS III IMPOSSIBILITIES
14. Perpetual motion machines
15. Precognition
Epilogue: The future of the impossible
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: CLASS I IMPOSSIBILITIES
1. Force fields
2. Invisibility
3. Phasers and death stars
4. Teleportation
5. Telepathy
6. Psychokinesis
7. Robots
8. Extraterrestrials and UFOs
9. Starships
10. Antimatter and anti-universes
PART II: CLASS II IMPOSSIBILITIES
11. Faster than light
12. Time travel
13. Parallel universes
PART III: CLASS III IMPOSSIBILITIES
14. Perpetual motion machines
15. Precognition
Epilogue: The future of the impossible
Notes
Bibliography
Index