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| Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel | 
 enlarge | Author: Michio Kaku
Publisher: Doubleday
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (55 reviews)
Sales Rank: 514
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0385520697
Dewey Decimal Number: 530
EAN: 9780385520690
ASIN: 0385520697
Publication Date: March 11, 2008
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Impossible, therefore TRUE? August 23, 2008
Kaku has proven himself as a physicist, author, and television personality who can take complex concepts and make them understandable.
Many negatives reviews of this book call it silly or fantastic. I wonder if they understand the precipice phyics and cosmology are standing on. Just in the last decade we have witnessed "fantastic" hypotheses become popular concepts by scientists: Dark energy, Dark matter, challenges to the Big Bang Theory, parallel universes, and multiverses are known to the layperson.
Healing the Rift
Perhaps these concepts all seem too outlandish to be true but recall that phyicists believe that a vacuum and space is full of "stuff" as declared by Nobel Laureate Robert B. Laughlin. So "impossible" is a metaphor for one of the hypotheses which is thinking outside the box like the concepts above were at one time. This brings up the question: how do these concepts fit with spiritual teaching? I believe that 21st century science is moving towards the spiritual and ancient spiritual teachings. Kaku and scores of leading scientists make the case. Healing the Rift: Merging Science and Spirituality
new August 17, 2008
this book is very interesting..in a few years we will thank kaku for formulating the 'impossible'
Inspiring and Enlightening August 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dr. Kaku presents another outstanding book to expand our minds to endless possibilities. Why limit ourselves when we need, more than ever, to think out of the box, and ask the big "what if" questions. In my own writing, vis-i-vis, The Ninth Cube, I have tried to answer these questions, alot of them inspired from the work of Dr. Kaku. I throughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone. Great job, Michio!
Great examples that make scientific terminology digestible August 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have a very high respect for Mr. Kaku's work. The first book I read from him was 'Hyperspace' and became immediately his fan. 'Physics of the Impossible' is another exceptional work. Like Brian Greene's 'Fabric Of The Cosmos', the book is full of great examples, details that are easily visualized and exciting historical facts that make the scientific terminology digestible.
Mr. Kaku helps the readers by smartly classifying the 'impossibilities' (such as time travel and teleportation) and gives estimates as to when these may become 'possible'. The book is very engaging and I highly recommend it.
 Mickey Cuckoo does it again July 27, 2008
2 out of 29 found this review helpful
More science fiction rubbish from Mickey. Page after page of references to past TV shows, movies, etc. After starting to read the book I switched to the 'browse mode' jumping chapters in order to find something educational and worthwhile. As my frustration grew, I remembered the Japanese custom in WWII of burying American prisoners up to their necks and then using their heads for polo practice. I imagined Mickey in such a situation and it gave me some relief. Finally, I shelved the book as not worth my time. Mickey reminds me of Carl Sagan who was so unsure of his Physics that he asked Feynman to review each of his books before publication in order to avoid an embarrassing humiliation.
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