Types of Science impossibilities

Many things around us, from fax machines, glass skyscrapers, gas-powered automobiles to a worldwide communications network and high-speed elevated trains, things that were was once declared impossible in the past, are possible today.

Pioneers of the past think human flights was not possible, but the wright brothers proved them wrong. Now the world is bustling with jumbo jets soaring through the skies world wide.

Pioneers of the past think teleportation was not possible, but discoveries made by Charles Bennett and a team of researchers at IBM made it possible in 1993. Human teleportation seems theoretically possible now which i'll post about teleportation in the coming weeks.

So what is truly considered impossible? Sciences never cease to amaze us with a heap of possibilities. The real differences between the impossible, the unlikely and imminent have never been so clear.

Where does the realm of Science fiction end?

To go into deeper in the realm of impossibilities, there are 3 classes of impossibilities.

The first are the Class I impossibilities. These are technologies that are impossible today but that do not violate the known laws of physics. So they might be possible in this century, or perhaps the next, in modified form. They include teleportation, antimatter engines, certain forms of telepathy, psychokinesis, invisibility, force fields and to name a few more.

The second category is the Class II impossibilities. These are technologies that sit at the very edge of our understanding of the physical world. if they are possible at all. they might be realized on a scale of millenia to millions of years in the future. They include time travel, hyperspace travel, travel through wormholes, faster than light travel and parallel universes.

The Last category is the Class III impossibilities. These are technologies that violate the known laws of physics which are downright impossible. Surprisingly, there are very few such technologies. If they do turn out to be possible, they would represent a fundamental shift in our understanding of physics

stay tune for future information of physics of the impossible.