Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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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 clarifies:
· How the science of optics and electromagnetism may one day enable us to bend light around an object, like a stream flowing around a stone, building 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 mind-reading and psychokinesis, once considered pseudoscience, may one day be possible using advances in MRI, computers, superconductivity, and nanotechnology
· Why a time machine is rumor has it that consistent with the known laws of quantum physics, although it would take an unbelievably advanced civilization to really erect one
Kaku uses his discussion of each equipment as a jumping-off point to clarify 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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More science fiction rubbish from Mickey. Page after page of references to past TV shows, movies, etc. After starting to read the book I switched to the ‘browse mode’ jumping chapters in order to find something educational and worthwhile. As my frustration grew, I remembered the Japanese custom in WWII of burying American prisoners up to their necks and then using their heads for polo practice. I imagined Mickey in such a situation and it gave me some relief. Finally, I shelved the book as not worth my time. Mickey reminds me of Carl Sagan who was so unsure of his Physics that he questioned Feynman to review each of his books before publication in order to avoid an embarrassing humiliation.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I want to say that I loved this book immensely; but, since I never received it, I have nothing to go on. I tried several times to contact the shipper privately, but I never received a response there, either, and I still don’t have the book. Based on my experience, I’d say to stay away from this bookseller if at all possible, as you never know what you might get from them — or not.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I dont know never got the book or a correspondance from the seller multiple times. send me a book and we’ll call it even.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I was sorely disappointed in the lack of research into the evidence of mind-reading and UFOs for your book, Physics of the Impossible. In it he dedicates only one paragraph to the 23 years of U.S. government research and use of psychic phenomena. Tens of books by qualified scientists and researchers were dismissed by you by simply referencing the “AIR” report and “critics.” This is hardly an evaluation of the evidence. I recommend Mind At Large: IEEE Symposia on the Scenery of Psychic Perception edited by Hal Puthoff, Russel Targ et al. available through Amazon if there is any doubt.
In dismissing the UFO phenomena, he cites the French COMETA report wherein they say that for 58% of the sightings they “were unable to follow up on.” What he doesn’t want to say directly is that they could not be identified, hence unidentified, the “U” in UFO. More than half were then in fact unidentified flying objects.
He wants “hard physical evidence,” but wants to snub the abundant film, photograph and reliable witness evidence. Do you reflect the military is going to give you access to the material evidence from Aurora, Roswell, Corona, Kecksburg or copious additional crashes. Maybe Werner Van Braun or Edward Teller got to see these materials, but Michio or I would not.
I recommend you the book Disclosure: Military and Government Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets of Modern History, by Steven M. Greer, M.D. also available through Amazon.
In his book he sounds like one of persons “scientists” that would have shunned Nikolai Tesla or Albert Einstein since their theories were certainly not “compatible with current thinking in physics.” This is where he puts himself in a box. He writes whole books about the speculative string theory, but does not admit evidence right under your his nose that there are observable forces of scenery and technologies that to even the modern man, seem like magic.
I look forwards to your new book wherein he analyzes the evidence and its potential extradimensionality, and attempts to clarify how it physically works.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Most books that attempt to clarify advanced topics in physics to laymen are worthy of the most profound contempt since, at best, they give only the illusion of understanding, which is worse than no understanding at all. Kaku reaches a new low in this genre with his latest effort – a tiresome, rambling, disconnected, childishly written discourse that has all the qualities of a last minute job. The only thing the reader learns is just how well informed Kaku is on current science fiction novels, films and television. To paraphrase him, writing a worse book would be a Class I impossibility.
Again, the lesson is clear. If you want to know physics, you have to do the work. That means learning some levelheaded mathematics before you start crafty warp drives and time machines.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5