In a compelling and thought-provoking narrative, he explains: He ranks the impossible technologies by categories-Class I, II, and III, depending on when they might be achieved, within the next century, millennia, or perhaps never. 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.įrom teleportation to telekinesis, Kaku uses the world of science fiction to explore the fundamentals-and the limits-of the laws of physics as we know them today. One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. 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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