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Man has the best chance in history of making contact with aliens and the first encounter could happen within decades, a leading physicist predicted yesterday. Professor Michio Kaku, of City University New York, said scientists are yet to trace all of the stars in Earth’s neighbourhood, making the prospect of alien contact more likely than ever. Reported extracts from his book, The Physics of the Impossible, add that man now has a thousand times more data than was collected in past detections for Earth-like planets. As a result, he believes contact with an alien civilisation could be a reality within decades, but, so far, the 300 planets found in other solar systems appear unlikely to host life. Other science fiction he bets will become science fact more quickly than any other ‘impossible’ concept is the power of invisibility, thanks to the creation of metamaterial. By eliminating reflection and shadows, the exotic substance reportedly renders an object invisible, according to the Guardian, which published extracts of Prof Kaku’s book yesterday. “So many times predictions are made that certain things are impossible only to find them becoming possible a decade or a few decades later,” he said. In his book, published in the UK yesterday, Prof Kaku rates seemingly impossible phenomena, including teleportation, precognition and time travel, according to how likely they are to happen. Apr 3, 2008 Email this article Printer friendly page Previous Page
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