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The Physics of Star Trek

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Basic Books, Aug 2, 2007 - Science - 280 pages
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User Review  - Betsy - Goodreads

I confess that while I found this book gloriously geeky, I often wished that its explanations were more thorough and/or clearer. I understand that the book was probably intended to be of a welcoming ... Read full review

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User Review  - Ericmgb1974 - Goodreads

At this point the science is a little outdated but it's still entertaining for the diehard Star Trek fan and not a bad basic introduction to modern physics. Read full review

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Contents

Einstein Raises
15
Hawking Shows His Hand
37
Data Ends the Game
67
SECTION
79
The Most Bang for Your Buck
109
Holodecks and Holograms
129
SECTION THREE
141
The Menagerie of Possibilities
173
The Undiscoverable Country
211
EPILOGUE
229
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
235
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
251
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The Physics of Star Trek. Keith Dewar. The Physics of Star Trek by Lawrence M. Krauss. basicbooks, 1995, $26.00; ISBN 0-465-00559-4. A recent. ...
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The Physics of Star Trek - Hamster Inkwell
The Physics of Star Trek takes a lighthearted look at this subject, speculating on how the wonders of Star Trek technology might actually work--and, ...
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Penn State Eberly College of Science -- Lecture: "The Physics of ...
These questions will be topics in a free multi-media presentation titled "The Physics of Star Trek," which will be given at 2:00 pm on Sunday, 7 April, ...
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Neutron Stars & the Physics of Star Trek
Some pulsars generate more than 1000 pulses per second, which means, as Lawrence Krauss wrote in The Physics of Star Trek, that an object with the mass of ...
www.dailygalaxy.com/ my_weblog/ 2007/ 07/ neutron-star-ch.html

“The Physics of Star Trek: Mobility in the Next Millennium”
author of "The Physics of Star Trek" and "Beyond. Star Trek." He provides an entertaining analysis of. warp speed, transporter beams and time travel using ...
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physicscentral: People in Physics: Lawrence Krauss
Krauss has returned the favor by sharing his knowledge of physics in six books for the public, including the best-selling The Physics of Star Trek. ...
www.physicscentral.com/ people/ 2001/ krauss.html

The Physics of Star Trek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Physics of Star Trek is a 1995 nonfiction book by Case Western Reserve University professor Lawrence M. Krauss. It discusses the physics involved in ...
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Can He Explain the Vulcan Mind Meld? - New York Times
THE PHYSICS OF STAR TREK By Lawrence M. Krauss. Foreword by Stephen Hawking. Illustrated. 188 pp. New York: Basic Books. $18.50. ON the dust jacket of "The ...
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SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Podcasts: Dr. Lawrence Krauss, author of "The ...
Dr. Lawrence Krauss, author of "The Physics of Star Trek" and Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics and Professor of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve ...
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About the author (2007)

Lawrence Krauss is a theoretical physicist. Krauss is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the only physicist to have received awards from all three major U.S. physics societies: the American Physical Society, the American Association of Physics Teachers, and the American Institute of Physics. Lawrence Krauss received undergraduate degrees in mathematics and physics from Carleton University and his Ph.D. in physics from MIT. Krauss taught at Yale University and was Chairman of the Physics Department at Case Western Reserve University. Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Fifth Essence (1991), Fear of Physics (1994), The Physics of Star Trek (1995), Beyond Star Trek (1997), Quintessence (2001), Atom (2002), Hiding in the Mirror (2005), Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (2010), and A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing (2012).

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