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Michio Kaku

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Explores science fiction technologies
Renowned physicist Michio Kaku
Death rays to invisibility
Future tech possibilities revealed
318 pages of discovery
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A FASCINATING EXPLORATION OF THE SCIENCE OF THE IMPOSSIBLEFROM DEATH RAYS AND FORCE FIELDS TO INVISIBILITY CLOAKSREVEALING 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 FUNDAMENTALSAND THE LIMITSOF THE LAWS OF PHYSICS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY. HE RANKS THE IMPOSSIBLE TECHNOLOGIES BY CATEGORIESCLASS I, II, AND III, DEPENDING ON WHEN THEY MIGHT BE ACHIEVED, WITHIN THE NEXT CENTURY, MILLENNIA, OR PERHAPS NEVER. IN A COMPELLING AND THOUGHTPROVOKING 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...

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Binding: N/A;318 pages; Publisher: Repro India Limited; Classification: N/A; Weight: 455.66 g; Dimensions: N/A

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