TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kaku,Michio
TI  - Physics of the impossible: a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel 
SN  - 9780385520690
AV  - QC75 .K18 2008
U1  - 530 22
PY  - 0000///
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Physics
KW  - Miscellanea
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Science
KW  - Mathematical physics
KW  - Physics in literature
KW  - Human-machine systems
KW  - Physique
KW  - Sciences
KW  - fast
KW  - Science-Fiction
KW  - gnd
KW  - Technologie
KW  - Physik
KW  - swd
KW  - sears
KW  - Mathematics
KW  - Human engineering
KW  - Trivia and miscellanea
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-318) and index; Part I: Class impossibilities. Force fields ; Invisibility ; Phasers and death stars ; Teleportation ; Telepathy ; Psychokinesis ; Robots ; Extraterrestrials and UFOs ; Starships ; Antimatter and anti-universes -- Part II: Class II impossibilities. Faster than light ; Time travel ; Parallel universes -- Part III: Class III impossibilities. Perpetual motion machines ; Precognition -- Epilogue: The future of the impossible
N2  - One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility. Here, 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. He uses his discussion of each technology as a jumping-off point to explain the science behind it.--From publisher description
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