Science of the Impossible

Prof. Michio Kaku (PacificaRadio, City Univ. of New York, mkaku.org)

Paperback edition available May 7, 2009

Physics of the Impossible is a fascinating exploration of the science of the impossible — from time machines and force fields to invisibility cloaks and healing devices — revealing what can be done now and what technologies might be achievable decades or millennia into the future.

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