Telekinesis And Teleportation Impossible? … Think Again

Watching re-runs of Star Trek, you can’t help but think how cool it would be to be able to teleport from one place to another in an instant (and flirt with attractive alien women). Of course our finite human minds see such things as this as “impossible”. Which is why people like Michio Kaku (such a cool name by the way) are around to expand our comprehension of the world around us and make the impossible, possible.

“One hundred years ago, scientists would have said that lasers, televisions, and the atomic bomb were beyond the realm of physical possibility” . This is one of the catch lines, for Kaku’s book “Physics of the Impossible”.

Kaku is the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics, at the Graduate Center at the New York City University. He has written a few books about the laws of physics and their applications. His new book looks to draw in readers, by expanding their minds about the possibilities of physics. Teleportation and Telekinesis are just a couple of applications that Kaku believes are within the realm of physical possibility.

Here are a few ideas that are presented in his book, compliments of Random House:

· How the science of optics and electromagnetism may one day enable us to bend light around an object, like a stream flowing around a boulder, making the object invisible to observers “downstream”
· How ramjet rockets, laser sails, antimatter engines, and nanorockets may one day take us to the nearby stars
· How telepathy and psychokinesis, once considered pseudoscience, may one day be possible using advances in MRI, computers, superconductivity, and nanotechnology
· Why a time machine is apparently consistent with the known laws of quantum physics, although it would take an unbelievably advanced civilization to actually build one

Kaku divides these applications into different classes of impossibility. The Class system is divided into Class I, Class II, and Class III. He uses the class system to discern just how impossible each idea actually is; within the laws of physics. Class I, is technologies that are within our laws of physics, while Class III are beyond our comprehension of physics at this point, with Class II resting in the middle ground. According to Kaku, as the laws of physics change and the understanding of the laws change, so will the impossibility of the applications surrounding them.

“Physics of the Impossible” hits book stands today. You can also download the E-book, and save some trees by downloading it from Random House, here.