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	• Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, ... Michio Kaku Doubleday, 2008 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 48 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

excellent

Entertaining, easy reading, serious but delivered easily. A must for the science lover with an open mind.

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this book is very interesting..in a few years we will thank kaku for formulating the 'impossible'

Soup for the mind

My daughter loved the book. Seems the picture on the cover has images from "Dr. Who", one of her favorite programs. Just the book to interest and challenge the mind.

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Impossible, therefore TRUE?

Kaku has proven himself as a physicist, author, and television personality who can take complex concepts and make them understandable.
Many negatives reviews of this book call it silly or fantastic. I wonder if they understand the precipice phyics and cosmology are standing on. Just in the last decade we have witnessed "fantastic" hypotheses become popular concepts by scientists: Dark energy, Dark matter, challenges to the Big Bang Theory, parallel universes, and multiverses are known to the layperson.

Healing the Rift

Perhaps these concepts all seem too outlandish to be true but recall that phyicists believe that a vacuum and space is full of "stuff" as declared by Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin. So "impossible" is a metaphor for one of the hypotheses which is thinking outside the box like the concepts above were at one time. This brings up the question: how do these concepts fit with spiritual teaching? I believe that 21st century science is moving towards the spiritual and ancient spiritual teachings. Kaku and scores of leading scientists make the case. Healing the Rift: Merging Science and Spirituality

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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.