The Physics of the Impossible - Michio Kaku

Will it one day be possible to walk through walls? to travel faster than light? to read other people's minds? to become invisible? to transport objects by the sheer force of our will? Since childhood, I have been fascinated by these questions. Growing up, like so many other physicists, I was captivated by the ideas of time travel, death rays, force fields, parallel universes. Magic, fantasy, science fiction offered a gigantic playground for my imagination. Thus began my love affair with the impossible.

[...] In my short life, I have seen many times the seemingly impossible become an established scientific fact. For example, the possibility of teleporting ourselves instantaneously from one place to another would be ruled out by most physicists today. But in a few centuries? Or a few dozen millennia, when our technology has advanced? To put it another way, if we encountered a civilization a million years more advanced than ours, wouldn't their technology seem like pure magic to us?

MK


Michio Kaku, a physicist and professor at the City College of New York, has published several popular and successful books in the United States.