Physics of the impossible by Michio Kaku is about the beyond. Kaku writes a book entirely about physics concepts and makes it understandable and interesting to kids in high school. Kaku wrote the book from a physicists point if view and made it for people who are not physicists. I plan to analyze the rhetorical connections Kaku made in Physics of the impossible. Michio Kaku is intelligent and qualified enough to go more in depth with these physics theories. As a child Kaku strived to do amazing things, he wanted “to be a part of the effort to complete Einstein’s work, to unify the laws of physics into a single theory” (x). For a science fair project he was able to build “a 2.3-million-electron-volt betatron particle accelerator” with 20,000 …show more content…
He appealed to logos because the ideas and intentions are clear. Kaku broke down Einstein’s special theory of relativity into three sentences “time slows down inside a rocket the faster it moves. Science fic¬tion writers have speculated that if you could break the light barrier, you could go back in time. But this is not possible, since you would have to have infinite mass in order to reach the speed of light” (219). Kaku appeals to ethos by appealing to our inner child by combining cartoons and science like in “the Nickelodeon program Invader Zim, perpetual motion machines figure prominently in the plots” (258). Kaku appealed to pathos because he gives readers hope for new ideas, “Working prototypes of [metamaterials] have actually been built in the laboratory, sparking intense interest by the media, industry, and the military in making the visible become invisible” …show more content…
To prove his claim that the impossible is often a relative term, Michio Kaku effectively persuades science enthusiasts all over the world through his ability to take complex ideas and simplify them. The concepts in the book, such as handheld MRI’s, are thought provoking and create an impact on readers. Kaku writes about how MRI’s can be used for telepathy, but are too large. By making them smaller one can tell the basic emotions if they know how to read it (82-83). Once I watched this show where this woman had a chip installed in her head that gave her the ability to tell a person’s emotions based on their facial expressions. This idea is not much different from