TY - BOOK AU - Kaku,Michio TI - Physics of the impossible: a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel SN - 9780307278821 (pbk.) : AV - QC75 .K18 2009 PY - 2009///, c2008 CY - New York PB - Anchor Books KW - Physics KW - Miscellanea KW - Science KW - Mathematical physics KW - Physics in literature KW - Human-machine systems N1 - Originally published: New York : Doubleday, c2008; Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index; Class I impossibilities: Force fields -- Invisibility -- Phasers and death stars -- Teleportation -- Telepathy -- Psychokinesis -- Robots -- Extraterrestrials and UFOs -- Starships -- Antimatter and Anti-universe -- Class II impossibilities: Faster than light -- Time travel -- Parallel universes -- Class III impossibilities: Perpetual motion machines -- Precognition -- Epilogue: The future of the impossible N2 - 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 ER -