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A review by gapagrin
Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku
4.0
I've always been a big science fiction reader, so a book exploring the technology and science of science fiction was right up my street. Kaku divides the 'impossible' things into three different categories: Class I things are most likely possible within the next hundred years or so provided we develop the right kind of technology, Class II don't violate the laws of physics and so are technically not impossible, but might require hundreds or thousands of years to develop, while Class III impossibilities are those that violate the laws of physics as we know them.
Not that that means that we'll actually be seeing time travel or be able to move faster than the speed of light, as 'impossible' here literally means 'violates the laws of physics' and there's not really a lot that does. But Kaku also goes into great detail about how they don't violate the laws of physics and what exactly we'd need to do make any of this a reality. He has a way of writing that draws you in to the subject and gives you all the information you need while not requiring that you have a PhD in physics in order to understand. And who knows? Maybe we'll be seeing force fields and phasers in the next hundred years or so.
Not that that means that we'll actually be seeing time travel or be able to move faster than the speed of light, as 'impossible' here literally means 'violates the laws of physics' and there's not really a lot that does. But Kaku also goes into great detail about how they don't violate the laws of physics and what exactly we'd need to do make any of this a reality. He has a way of writing that draws you in to the subject and gives you all the information you need while not requiring that you have a PhD in physics in order to understand. And who knows? Maybe we'll be seeing force fields and phasers in the next hundred years or so.