Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration of the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation and Time Travel
By Michio Kaku
Allen Lane £20, 329 pages
FT bookshop price: £16

In Physics of the Impossible, Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist of distinction turned acclaimed science writer and presenter, tackles a ticklish modern problem: how to keep satisfying the public’s appetite for popular accounts of the latest scientific advances when much of the material has been done to death.