By TAURIQ MOOSA, SKEPTIC.COM
Added: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:00:00 UTC

Thanks to SPS for the link.

See:
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-10-15.html

THE HORIZON OF POSSIBILITY IS STRETCHED BEFORE US, penetrated by the shadowy undiscovered, terrain of the impossible. Our light of knowledge feebly illuminates a small circle of comprehension, but according to the New York University physicist and string theorist Michio Kaku, there is hope. More than ever, he believes, we are closer to raising our tiny light to shine everywhere to make that which was fiction into fact, to take the impossible and make it possible.

Who holds the world record for travelling furthest into the future? Where did scientists create materials that were once thought to defy the laws of optics? Why is King Kong's existence impossible? If you are surprised by the questions, Kaku's answers will surprise even more.

Click here to continue reading (about 1/3 of the way down the page):
http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/08-10-15.html

TAGGED: CRITICAL THINKING, SCIENCE