Centuries ago, scientists would have said that televisions, lasers, and the atomic bomb stretched beyond the realm of physical possibility. In Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of City University in New York and co founder of the string field theory, explores to what extent the technologies and devices found in science fiction, can be deemed possible in the future.
Using the world of science fiction and the laws of physics to explore fundamentals and limits of certain technology, Kaku divides these phenomina into three distinct classes:
Class I Imposibilities: These are technologies that are impossible today, do not violate the known laws of physics, and that may be possible within the next couple of centuries.
Class II Imposibilities: These are technologies that lie at the very edge of human understanding of the physical world. If they are possible at all, they might be realized in a millenia or up to millions of years in the future.
Class III Imposibilities: These are technologies that violate the known laws of physics. If these technologies turn out to be possible, they would represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of physics.
In the following blog posts I will comment and explore on certain topics of intrest from each chapter of this intreaguing novel on physics.
Using the world of science fiction and the laws of physics to explore fundamentals and limits of certain technology, Kaku divides these phenomina into three distinct classes:
Class I Imposibilities: These are technologies that are impossible today, do not violate the known laws of physics, and that may be possible within the next couple of centuries.
Class II Imposibilities: These are technologies that lie at the very edge of human understanding of the physical world. If they are possible at all, they might be realized in a millenia or up to millions of years in the future.
Class III Imposibilities: These are technologies that violate the known laws of physics. If these technologies turn out to be possible, they would represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of physics.
In the following blog posts I will comment and explore on certain topics of intrest from each chapter of this intreaguing novel on physics.
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