Physics of the Impossible : : a Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
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Originally published: New York : Doubleday, ©2008.
Class I impossibilities -- Force fields -- Invisibility -- Phasers and death stars -- Teleportation -- Telepathy -- Psychokinesis -- Robots -- Extraterrestrials and UFOs -- Starships -- Antimatter and Anti-universes -- Class II impossibilities -- Faster than light -- Time travel -- Parallel universes -- Class III impossibilities -- Perpetual motion machines -- Precognition -- The future of the impossible.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., [2009]
Year Published: 2009
Description: xxi, 329 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780385520690
9780307278821
SUBJECTS
Physics.
Science.
Mathematical physics.
Physics in literature.
Human-machine systems.