Physics of the impossible : a scientific exploration into the world of phasers, force fields, teleportation, and time travel
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- ISBN: 0385520697 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780385520690 (hbk. : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
xxi, 329 p. ; 25 cm.
print - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, c2008.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-318) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Force fields -- Invisibility -- Phasers and death stars -- Teleportation -- Telepathy -- Psychokinesis -- Robots -- Extraterrestrials and UFOs -- Starships -- Antimatter and anti-universes -- Faster than light -- Time travel -- Parallel universes -- Perpetual motion machines -- Precognition -- Epilogue: The future of the impossible. |
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Subject: | Physics Miscellanea Science Miscellanea Mathematical physics Miscellanea Physics in literature Human-machine systems |
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MICHIO KAKU is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the cofounder of string field theory. He has written several books, includingParallel Worlds and Beyond Einstein, and his bestseller, Hyperspace, was voted one of the best science books of the year by the New York Times and theWashington Post. He is a frequent guest on national TV, and his nationally syndicated radio program is heard in 130 cities. He lives in New York City.