Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
It seems that Michio Kaku wants to become this generation's Carl Sagan (big shoes to fill, IMHO) and this book is his Cosmos. In Physics of the Impossible, Kaku takes different SciFi tropes (force fields, time travel, ESP, perpetual motion machines, the multiverse, etc.) and explains what they are, why we can't do it now, and postulates if/when man could ever do it.
Explaining the weirdness that is quantum physics in layman's language is a very tall order that only a few people are able to do and Kaku is one of them. It's an easy read and only once or twice did I find myself rereading a passage to figure out what he was saying.
Highly recommended.
It seems that Michio Kaku wants to become this generation's Carl Sagan (big shoes to fill, IMHO) and this book is his Cosmos. In Physics of the Impossible, Kaku takes different SciFi tropes (force fields, time travel, ESP, perpetual motion machines, the multiverse, etc.) and explains what they are, why we can't do it now, and postulates if/when man could ever do it.
Explaining the weirdness that is quantum physics in layman's language is a very tall order that only a few people are able to do and Kaku is one of them. It's an easy read and only once or twice did I find myself rereading a passage to figure out what he was saying.
Highly recommended.