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Title: Teleportation and forcefields possible within decades, says Professor Michio Kaku
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Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ma ... earth/2008/04/02/eakaku102.xml
Published: Apr 9, 2008
Author: Matthew Moore
Post Date: 2008-04-09 06:29:20 by Ada
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Teleportation and forcefields could become scientific realities within decades, and time travel will also be possible in the future, according to one of the world's leading physicists. Interview with Michio Kaku, Mr Parallel Universe Extended extracts from Prof Kaku's new book 'Physics of the Impossible' Future of science: 'We will have the power of the gods' Professor Michio Kaku of City University in New York has studied a range of scientific "impossibilities" and concluded that most will almost certainly be achieved as our knowledge expands. Prof Kaku: 'What is unthinkable today might not be forbidden in a few decades or centuries' Applying the rule that unless something breaks a law of physics "then it's not only possible, it is sure to be built someday", Prof Kaku has established a hierarchy of "impossibilities", separating those phenomena that are sure to remain science fiction from those which are likely to become reality at some point in the future. Teleportation, telepathy, forcefields and invisibility are Class 1 impossibilities, meaning they are likely to be realisable within a few decades or at most a century. Class II impossibilities may take centuries or millennia to perfect, while Class III impossibilities are truly impossible. Class 1 Teleportation is likely to be achieved through "quantum entanglement", a property that allows connections to be formed – and information transmitted - between particles many miles apart. Applying the process to larger objects like people is just a scientific "engineering problem", that is likely to be solved in time, Prof Kaku writes in his new book Physics of the Impossible. Similarly, telepathy will be made possible by improved MRI machines that can effectively read minds, and electrodes that can then pass the information into the brains of other humans. advertisementInvisibility will probably be achieved using a recently-built "metamaterial" capable of bending light rays, he argues. Alien life will most likely be discovered within decades as our ability to analyse the universe improves. Class II Time travel is a Class II impossibility because, while it need not break the laws of physics, science still has major knowledge gaps to cross to make it a reality, Prof Kaku believes. "What makes them [Class II impossibilities] so difficult is that they generally require vast amounts of energy, and their underlying physics is not totally understood," he writes in this week's New Scientist magazine. The research of Stephen Hawking, Albert Einstein and the physicist Kip Thorne has shown that time travel is theoretically possible, but no-one has yet found a way to produce the energy necessary to keep a "wormhole" open. "This technology is only achievable for a civilisation significantly more advanced than ours," Prof Kaku writes. Parallel universes and travelling faster than the speed of light are also Class II impossibilities, he argues. Class III The only two science fiction phenomena which Prof Kaku believes are truly impossible – Class III impossibilities – are perpetual motion machines and telling the future (precognition), both of which break the fundamental laws of modern physics. "In considering what the future may hold, then, we should keep an open mind to Class 1 and Class 2 impossibilities," Prof Kaku writes. "What is unthinkable today might not be forbidden in a few decades or centuries." 'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku (Allen Lane) is available from Telegraph Books for £18 plus £1.25 p&p. Call 0870 428 4115 or order online at books.telegraph.co.uk
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#1. To: Ada (#0)
There is no way I would let anyone teleport me. There could be some catastrophic mistake when I reappeared.
"The evil man is the child grown strong" - Thomas Hobbes
I can do time travel right now. I am traveling into the future at this very moment. :)
God is always good!
If he can teleport me a copy of the book I would buy a copy.
God is always good!
And yet illegal immigration will still be a problem.
...Both methods yielded similar results, which support the previous findings; that is, of all modern human samples, sub-Saharan Africans again exhibit the closest phenetic similarity to various African Plio-Pleistocene hominins...
#2. To: Ada (#0)
Teleportation and forcefields could become scientific realities within decades, and time travel will also be possible in the future, according to one of the world's leading physicists.
#3. To: Ada (#0)
'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku (Allen Lane) is available from Telegraph Books for £18 plus £1.25 p&p. Call 0870 428 4115 or order online at books.telegraph.co.uk
#4. To: Ada (#0)
Teleportation and forcefields could become scientific realities within decades
Ancient teeth and modern human origins: An expanded comparison of African Plio-Pleistocene and recent world dental samples, Journal of Human Evolution Volume 45, Issue 2, August 2003, Pages 113-144
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