Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

Dr. Michio Kaku is a physicist, futurist, media personality, and author. His globally best-selling popular science works include Physics of the Impossible (2008), The Future of the Mind (2014), and Quantum Supremacy (2025). He has also written several high-level physics textbooks, and more than 70 of his academic papers and articles have been published in prestigious scientific journals. For his work as a physicist and scientific communicator, he received the American Association of Physics Teachers’ annual Klopsteg Memorial Award in 2008 and the Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021.

Kaku was born in 1947 to working-class, second-generation Japanese-American parents. His childhood interest in science was inspired by science fiction and news coverage of Albert Einstein’s (1879-1955) death. In high school, he earned a scholarship and mentorship from renowned physicist Edward Teller (1908-2003) by presenting a homemade particle accelerator capable of producing antimatter at the National Science Fair. He graduated at the top of his physics class at Harvard University in 1968 and earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1972. He was a lecturer at Princeton University and taught theoretical physics at the City College of New York for over 25 years.