![]() Krauss’s The Physics of Star Trek (1995). Subtitled ‘ A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel’, the earlier book is mainly an attempt to rationalise the background to Star Trek in more detail than Lawrence M. It was maybe unfortunate that I received this book for review immediately after reading his Physics of the Impossible (Penguin, 2009). It is probably fair to say that if those aren’t Michio Kaku’s favourite subjects, they are perhaps the ones he feels most at home with. “To do this, we will have to exploit the fourth wave of science, which consists of artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and biotechnology’. Although the subtitle of this book promises ‘ Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality and Our Destiny beyond Earth’,page 13 issues something of a warning note. ![]()
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