Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration by Michio Kaku

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, and Back 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 Impossible probes the very limits of human ingenuity and scientific possibility.ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsPART I: CLASS I IMPOSSIBILITIES1. Force fields2. Invisibility3. Phasers and death stars4. Teleportation5. Telepathy6. Psychokinesis7. Robots8. Extraterrestrials and UFOs9. Starships10. Antimatter and anti-universesPART II: CLASS II IMPOSSIBILITIES11. Faster than light12. Time travel13. Parallel universesPART III: CLASS III IMPOSSIBILITIES14. Perpetual motion machines15. PrecognitionEpilogue: The future of the impossibleNotesBibliographyIndex