The Science of Star Trek: Antimatter to Wormholes
April 25th, 2013

The website Best Computer Science Degrees provides this infographic which ranks various technologies from Star Trek in order of most plausible to least plausible. Most plausible, in the authors’ view: communicators, which already exist in the form of cell phones and we can even share images and videos,s something not anticipated by Captain Kirk. Least plausible: interstellar travel or time travel via wormholes. Click through to the source for a more detailed explanation of each of the technologies and the current state of the science and future feasibility.