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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780385520690
ISBN: 0385520697
Label: Doubleday
Manufacturer: Doubleday
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
Publisher: Doubleday
Release Date: March 11, 2008
Sales Rank: 831
Studio: Doubleday
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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.
From 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. 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 a compelling and thought-provoking narrative, he explains:
· How the science of optics and electromagnetism may one day enable us to bend light around an object, like a stream flowing around a boulder, making the object invisible to observers “downstream”
· How ramjet rockets, laser sails, antimatter engines, and nanorockets may one day take us to the nearby stars
· How telepathy and psychokinesis, once considered pseudoscience, may one day be possible using advances in MRI, computers, superconductivity, and nanotechnology
· Why a time machine is apparently consistent with the known laws of quantum physics, although it would take an unbelievably advanced civilization to actually build one
Kaku uses his discussion of each technology as a jumping-off point to explain the science behind it. An extraordinary scientific adventure, Physics of the Impossible takes readers on an unforgettable, mesmerizing journey into the world of science that both enlightens and entertains.
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Rating:  - future
This Book is a great begginer guide into the sate of the human race now and what we can achieve in the future.
Rating: - Mission: Possible
Michio Kaku's "Physics Of The Impossible" is an eye-opening look into the possibilities that future technologies could hold for the human race.Kakurates such things as force fields, phasers, time travel and other as either a Level I, II or III posibility, with a level III being the most unreachable.Using a layman's vocabulary and great comparisons he adequately describes the science and technology for those without benefit of a PhD in physics.
I did find Kaku a bit redundant ... Read More
Rating:  - Pop-physics for moviegoers...
In Physics of the Impossible, author and physicist Michio Kaku reviews "a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel" (the subtitle).
He also discusses faster than light travel, perpetual motion machines, parallel universes, UFOs, precognition, and psychokinesis.In other words, Kaku covers a wide range of topics, from cutting edge theoretical physics (parallel universes) to patently silly "stunts" (psychokinesis).
The ... Read More
Rating: - Degrees of Scientific Impossibility
Will something that is impossible now eventually become possible? In order to answer this question, the author has divided various potentially outrageous ideas into three levels of impossibility, based on current and expected future technological capabilities and the known laws of physics: Class I impossibilities, occupying over 60% of the book, Class II impossibilities and Class III impossibilities. The higher the class level, the more impossible (or farther in the future) the possible realization ... Read More
Rating: - For newbies
Many parts of this book were interesting, but more taliored to the new physics reader.Mr. Kaku does not go into enough actual physics detail on many subjects.However, for an overview, this book is quite good.
I would recommend the author Brian Greene for a more detailed look at current physics theories.
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