davinci’s notebook » Lawrence M. Krauss http://stargrads.net/blogs/davinci everything is an experiment Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:51:13 +0000 fa hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss http://stargrads.net/blogs/davinci/2009/12/the-physics-of-star-trek-by-lawrence-m-krauss/ http://stargrads.net/blogs/davinci/2009/12/the-physics-of-star-trek-by-lawrence-m-krauss/#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 15:22:57 +0000 davinci http://stargrads.net/blogs/davinci/?p=1501 The previous post advertising the Perimeter Institute‘s Master’s program reminded me of this book, which continues my series “a life in books”.

The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss is geared more towards Star Trek fans than towards physicists. I remember thinking that it needed some equations, although I’m probably not the typical reader of this book. It has just the right depth to satisfy fans of the series, but not enough detail for anyone who is actually really interested in the (pseudo-)science behind the series’ plot devices. The take-home message of the book is that traveling to another galaxy is very, very impossible — at least according to our currently known laws of physics.

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