Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku (April 07,2009) Cover
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Physics of the Impossible A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku (April 07,2009)

Michio Kaku

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StarTalk Radio

Michio Kaku's book, 'Physics of the Impossible', was discussed, specifically how it categorizes time travel as a class two impossibility, indicating it's theoretically possible but presently challenging.

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And I just, when I saw that title and I said, if it's impossible, how could it have physics that applies?

— Episode: The Physics and Fantasy of Time Travel

Episode: The Physics and Fantasy of Time Travel

Michio Kaku's book, 'Physics of the Impossible', was discussed, specifically how it categorizes time travel as a class two impossibility, indicating it's theoretically possible but presently challenging.

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And I just, when I saw that title and I said, if it's impossible, how could it have physics that applies?

Well, that's the whole point, right? That's why you want to buy the book.

Now we're at the cutting edge of physics where I do my research. That includes wormholes, higher dimensional travel. This includes black holes and what happens at the center of a black hole, wormholes, time travel. These are class two impossibilities.

Class three is just darn impossible, period. Just plain old impossible.

Episode: The Physics and Fantasy of Time Travel

Michio Kaku's book, 'Physics of the Impossible', was discussed, exploring the concept that even 'impossible' things like time travel have underlying physics, and he categorized time travel as a Class 2 impossibility.

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And I just, when I saw that title and I said, if it's impossible, how could it have physics that applies?

Well, that's the whole point, right? That's why you want to buy the book.

Now we're at the cutting edge of physics where I do my research. That includes wormholes, higher dimensional travel. This includes black holes and what happens at the center of a black hole, wormholes, time travel. These are class two impossibilities.

Class three is just darn impossible, period. Just plain old impossible.

The Jordan Harbinger Show

It was mentioned as one of Michio Kaku's books, in which he categorizes predictions into three types: possible, plausible, and impossible. It was also discussed as a way to make reasonable predictions about the future.

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I wrote a book called physics of the impossible where i divided these predictions into at least three types you have things that are possible things that are plausible and things that are simply impos...

— Episode: 512: Michio Kaku | The Quest for a Theor...

Episode: 512: Michio Kaku | The Quest for a Theory of Every...

It was mentioned as one of Michio Kaku's books, in which he categorizes predictions into three types: possible, plausible, and impossible. It was also discussed as a way to make reasonable predictions about the future.

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I wrote a book called physics of the impossible where i divided these predictions into at least three types you have things that are possible things that are plausible and things that are simply impossible

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