Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

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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, andBack 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 Impossibleprobes 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