However, if you have curious ones in your household like I do in mine, it can be a valuable resource when your own knowledge (or the knowledge you surreptitiously swipe from the Interwebs) falls short of answering those geek queries. This book was written with an adult reader in mind, so unless your kids are high school age or above, I would not recommend it as 'light entertainment' for children. It also includes bits of history about how a lot of current technology, things like airplanes, lasers, atomic power, etc., were all considered impossible in the not-too-distant past. Most chapters start out with a description of some device from Star Trek, Doctor Who, Star Wars, or the like, and then will go into detail about how such technologies could (or could not) be made to work. Physics of the Impossible is written with the sci-fi geek in mind. And finally, Class III impossibilities are things like perpetual motion machines and precognition, which appear to violate the known laws of physics. Examples of these would include traveling faster than light, time machines and exploring parallel universes. Class II impossibilities are things at the outer limits of our understanding, which may take a millennia or more to develop. Includes bibliographical references and index. Michio Kaku was 8 years old when Einstein died in 1955, and he remembers hearing adults talk in hushed tones about the. Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel / Michio Kaku.

These include things like force fields, invisibility, Phasers and Death Stars, teleportation, telepathy, psychokinesis, extraterrestrials, starships, antimatter power sources and anti-universes. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kaku, Michio. Class I impossibilities are things that are not possible today, but that do not violate the laws of physics as we currently understand them. Kaku divides his subjects into what he calls Classes of Impossibility.

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