Physics of the Impossible

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U.S. $26.95/Canada $32. A fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible—from death rays and force fields to invisibil ...

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Preface ix Acknowledgments xix - 1 : Force Fields Port I: Class I Impossibilities - 2: Invisibility - 3: Phasers and ...

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If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it -ALBERT EINSTEIN One day, would it be possible to walk t ...

PREFACE somehow wrapped up with the marvels of the science that the show promised. As it turns out, I was not alone. Many highly ...

PBEFUCE XI solid background in advanced physics, I would be forever speculating about futuristic technologies without understand ...

xii PREFACE all died off. Some paleontologists thought that maybe a meteor from space had killed them, but that was impossible, ...

PREFACE xiii wide communications network, glass skyscrapers, gas-powered auto­ mobiles, and high-speed elevated trains. Not surp ...

xiv PREFACE STUDYING THE IMPOSSIBLE Ironically, the serious study of the impossible has frequently opened up rich and entirely u ...

PREFACE history. In the 1930s it was widely believed, even by Einstein, that an atomic bomb was "impossible." Physicists knew th ...

xv, PREFACE principle. In fact, to the contrary, physicists have now demonstrated that a law that prevents time travel is beyond ...