March 28, 2008: Impossible Physics - Dr. Michio Kaku

Invisibility through metamaterialsKaku reveals Duke University and Imperial College London demonstrated metamaterials that bend microwaves around an object, with Caltech, Germany, and Iowa labs extending it to visible light at the microscopic level.

Teleportation milestones and the soul questionKaku notes the world record is teleporting a photon between Canary Islands, with atoms of beryllium and cesium already teleported and DNA strands within a decade. He raises the philosophical problem: the original is destroyed in the process.

Brain-scan telepathy goes to courtKaku describes brain scans detecting lies with 98% accuracy in college students and a court case where an insurance claimant plans to use his MRI as proof he didn't burn down his store.

Feynman's antimatter solution to talking with the futureKaku explains Maxwell's advanced solutions allowed telephone conversations with the future, an embarrassment for a century until Feynman showed in 1949 that antimatter is ordinary matter going backward in time.

WR 104 gamma-ray burster aimed at EarthKaku reveals an unstable pinwheel star 8,000 light-years away in Sagittarius is staring down its rotation axis at Earth. A direct gamma-ray burst would blow off the ozone layer, blind every animal with eyes, and could already have detonated.