![]() ![]() How do you get a starship to accelerate from zero to the speed of light in less than sixty seconds without changing the crew's flesh and blood to chunky salsa? If you're a Star Trek writer, Krauss points out, you make sure you provide "inertial dampers" to somehow circumvent Newton's second law of motion. What makes Lawrence Krauss's book so enjoyable is his playful invitation to explore the boundary between physical possibility and dramatic license in the world of the future. It is time someone took a critical look at it all. To trekkies and sentient humans alike, Star Trek has become so much a part of popular culture that warp drives, photon torpedoes and transporters seem as real as toasters, flush toilets and self-defrosting refrigerators. ![]() If, on the other hand, you reflexively switch channels whenever you hear Captain Kirk say "Beam me up," you will still enjoy reading it. IF YOU HAVE SEEN ALL THE EPISODES more than once, if you have a Starfleet Academy decal on your left rear car window, you already own this book. ![]()
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