Synopses & Reviews
CUNY professor and media star Kaku (Hyperspace) ponders topics that many people regard as impossible, ranging from psychokinesis and telepathy to time travel and teleportation. His Class I impossibilities include force fields, telepathy and anti-universes, which dont violate the known laws of science and may become realities in the next century. Those in Class II await realization further in the
future and include faster-than-light travel and discovery of parallel universes.
Synopsis
Desde el tele transporte hasta la telequinesia, Michio Kaku acude al mundo de la ciencia fccion para explorar las premisas y los limites de las leyes de la fisica que aceptamos hoy dia.
En una obra atractiva y provocadora, Kaku explica, por ejemplo, como la ciencia optica y el electromagnetismo permitiran algun dia que la luz rodee un objeto, haciendolo invisible; como nuevos cohetes, velas de laser, motores de antimateria y nanocohetes pueden acercarnos a las estrellas mas cercanas; como la telepatia y la telequinesia, antes despreciadas como pseudociencia, pueden lograrse gracias a resonancias magneticas, ordenadores, superconductores y nanotecnologia. El resultado es una extraordinaria aventura cientifca, que lleva a los lectores a un viaje inolvidable por los confnes de la ciencia.
Un viaje fascinante a las fronteras de la ciencia que desvela la realidad cientifca que ocultan muchos artilugios de la ciencia fccion. Se trata de un libro divulgativo, accesible a todo tipo de lectores.
English Description
CUNY professor and media star Kaku (Hyperspace) ponders topics that many people regard as impossible, ranging from psychokinesis and telepathy to time travel and teleportation. His Class I impossibilities include force fields, telepathy and anti-universes, which don't violate the known laws of science and may become realities in the next century. Those in Class II await realization further in the future and include faster-than-light travel and discovery of parallel universes.