Dr. Michio Kaku
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A Flat Earther wants to rocket 1,800 feet to prove the earth is flat. But a jetliner can reach 30,000 feet. And you can just see the curvature of the earth from your window.
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Can you prove the existence of God? Probably not. Science is based on evidence which is testable, reproducible, and falsifiable. So God is outside the usual boundary of science. Also, it is impossible to disprove a negative, so you cannot disprove the existence of God, either.
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Not since Einstein have we had such a towering figure in science who could probe the deepest secrets of space-time and captivate millions of people around the world. He will be sorely missed by anyone who has ever been overwhelmed by the mystery and majesty of the night sky
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The economics of space travel have changed. It cost about $100 million to produce The Martian with Matt Daman. But the Indians sent their probe to Mars for $70 million. Movies about space cost more than the journey itself. They should give an Oscar for the best supporting rocket!
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I often get asked: where are the aliens from space? My guess is that they exist. But if they can reach us from the stars, they are a Type II or III civilization and are thousands of years ahead of us. So we have nothing to offer them.
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Some Harvard scientists have claimed that the extra-solar object that floated through our solar system might have been an alien craft. Its always fun to speculate, but this has to be backed up by hard evidence. As Carl Sagan said, remarkable claims require remarkable proof.
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One question I often get: is the universe a computer simulation? I don't think so. E.g. the weather is so complex that the smallest object that can simulate the weather is the weather itself. If we add the quantum theory, no digital computer can possibly simulate quantum atoms.
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I served in the US Army (Infantry division) during the Vietnam War, so I know that, with our technology, we can always win wars. But to win the peace, we have to win the hearts and minds of the people, which we failed to do in Afganistan.
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If the universe is uniform and infinite, then the sky should be on fire, since there is a star at every point you look. But since you look into the past when looking at distant stars, you eventually reach a cut-off, the big bang. So the sky is black because there was a beginning!
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Einstein spent the last 30 years of his life chasing after a theory which would allow him to “read the mind of God.” Today, we actually have a candidate for this fabled equation, but it is so controversial that it has split Nobel Prize winners against each other.
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This Fall Semester at the City College of New York, I will be teaching "the Physics of Science Fiction" (Physics 332).
I will discuss the physics behind time travel, star ships, light sabres, teleportation, wormholes, hyperspace, parallel universes. It will be on line.
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Guess whom I just met on the airplane? I delivered the opening, keynote address at the World Government Summit, 2018, in Dubai, concerning the future, in front of several thousand government ministers and delegates. On the plane, I happen to meet my friend, Neil de Grasse Tyson.
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Do you want to win a Nobel Prize and be recognized as the next Einstein? Then find the God Equation, which is perhaps no more than 1 inch long, which can combine the quantum theory with general relativity.
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I often get asked: Star Wars or Star Trek, which do you prefer? For dazzling special effects, I prefer Star Wars. However, I like Star Trek because it often raises all sorts of social and even philosophical questions about society, life, meaning, and the universe.
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Here's a message of hope. Sometimes great things emerge from catastrophies. During the plague of 1350, Bocaccio wrote The Decameron, one of the greatest collection of short stories. During the plague of 1666, Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravity and the calculus.
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I just saw the movie Capt. Marvel. Great fun, with lots of unanticipated plot twists. (Years ago, I gave up trying the count all the laws of physics violated in sci fi movies. Instead, I just sit back and enjoy the fun.)
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I just saw the latest Star Wars movie. Great fun. I was worried since the critics panned it for making too many references to previous movies. But, as someone who has seen all the Star Wars movies, I thought the movie helped to fill in all the gaps. Many interesting plot twists.
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...we should be open to that possibility. Many physicists are skeptical because the stars are so far away, but that assumes ET is only a century ahead of us.
Imagine if the aliens are millions of years more advanced than us; new laws of physics open up, so keep an open mind.
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Time travel. Wormholes. Star ships. Alien civilizations. Teleportation. Hyperspace. These are some of the topics I will be teaching this Fall. The course is the Physics of Science Fiction, Physics 332 (open to all registered students at the City College of New York).
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The history of the Supercollider is a sad one. First, Congress gives us a billion dollars to dig the hole for the Supercollider. Then Congress cancels it, and gives a second billion dollars to fill up the hole.
2 billion dollars to dig and fill up a hole! That's the Congress!
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Congratulations to the tireless NASA scientists who successfully landed the Insight probe on Mars! It was a brilliant, flawless landing. They beat the Mars jinx (over half the probes sent to Mars fail). It will study Marsquakes and search for signs of life on Mars.
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Congratulations to NASA scientists for finding organic-type chemicals on Mars, a real breakthrough. So Mars once had the conditions necessary to create life.( However, it is not the smoking gun. Amino acids have been found inside meteorites, and also in gas clouds in deep space.)
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All of biology can be reduced to chemistry. All of chemistry can be reduced to physics. All of physics can be reduced to relativity and the quantum theory. But can relativity and the quantum theory then be reduced to a Master Equation, the God Equation?
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I finally saw the movie, Avengers: Endgame. Great fun. They dealt with time travel paradoxes by explicitly splitting the time line into many distinct branches, which is one way physicists also resolve potential problems with time machines, via many worlds theory.
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Millions of kids got their first exposure to science fiction through Stan Lee and Marvel comics. Science fiction, in turn, has inspired so many, including Edwin Hubble, Carl Sagan, Robert Goddard, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and many more.
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Happy new year to all!! Live long and prosper. Remember, science is the engine of prosperity. And the engine's rocket fuel is curiosity.
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What happened before the Big Bang? What lies on the other side of a black hole? Are there other universes and dimensions? Can we go back in time? These are the questions that a Theory of Everything will solve.
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What might an alien civilization look like, ranked by energy? A type I civilization would control the output of an entire planet. A type II would control a star's energy. A type III would control the output of an entire galaxy. What are we on this cosmic scale? Type 0.
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What happened before the Big Bang? What lies on the other side of a black hole? Is time travel possible? Are there other dimensions or universes? Only a Theory of Everything can answer these questions. This is where the God Equation comes in.
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I will be on the Joe Rogan show (
@JoeRogan
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June 14, speaking about UFOs, UAPs, alien civilizations,
robots, immortality, wormholes, the multiverse, and the future of the human race.
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Just saw the latest Terminator movie. It was okay, but not as thrilling as
#2
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The final theory will answer: what happened before the big bang? what lies on the other side of a black hole? Can time go backwards? Are there other dimensions? Do we live in a multiverse of universes? These are questions which are beyond the scope of Einstein’s theory.
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When I was a child, I read Asimov’s
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The latest shocking result from Fermilab indicates there might be a hidden 5th force (beyond gravity, electro-magnetism, and the 2 nuclear forces) that is missing in the Standard Model. This mysterious new force, in turn, might possibly be the result of new string vibration.
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For the first time since 2011, astronauts will blast off into space on a US rocket. This historic event is set to happen on May 27. Congratulations to Space X.
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The next generation particle accelerators is being planned beyond the LHC. Japan wants to build the ILC, the International Linear Collider. The Chinese want to build the Circular Electron Positron Collider. CERN wants to build the Future Circular Collider. But where is the US????
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Time travel. Star ships. Teleportation. Wormholes. Hyperspace. Alien civilizations. These are a few of the topics I teach this fall in my new course Physics of Science Fiction. (Sorry, this course is only for registered students of the City College of New York.)
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Do you want to win the Nobel Prize and be considered the next Einstein? Then find the God Equation, an equation, perhaps no more than 1 inch long, which will allow us to “read the Mind of God” by summarizing all physical laws into a single equation.
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I will be receiving the Sir Arthur C. Clarke Lifetime Achievement Award tomorrow, Nov. 17, in Washington DC for my work as a theoretical physicist, working on string theory, and also as a popularizer of science.
See
for more details.
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Ans. to Riddle 109. Why do we need Jupiter? Without Jupiter to help clean out the early solar system of asteroid debris, the earth would have been struck repeatedly by them, making life impossible. So Jupiter is like a cosmic vacuum cleaner, clearing the way for life to form.
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Remember. The dinosaurs had no space program. And that is why they are not here to talk about it. But we do. So we need a backup plan, an insurance policy in case of natural and self inflicted disasters. See the Future of Humanity for more.
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(A word of advice. If you ever find the God Equation, then tell me first. We can then split the Nobel Prize money!)
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I just saw the movie Ad Astra. It was technically very well put together. (Except for a few small mistakes, e.g. you cannot parachute from the Space Station, and you cannot fire an antimatter gun at the earth from Neptune). But mainly, I found it too slow. I like more action.
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There is a God equation in mathematics, found by Euler. It is 1 + e^( i pi) = 0, which unifies the fundamental constants of math. But a God equation for physics will unify all the physical laws of the universe. It will be the crowning achievement of the last 2,000 year of science
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#JWST
just revealed 6 massive galaxies that scientists thought could not exist, potentially shattering our scientific understanding of the universe. I appeared on
@NBCNewsNow
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Are UFOs chasing our jet fighters, as recent secret documents suggest? Maybe they are experimental hypersonic drones. Or maybe aliens from outer space? I keep an open mind.
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Here's a quiz question: If time travel is possible, then how can you become your own mother, father, son, and daughter, all at once?
The answer next week.
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You need: Positive energy to open a gateway time, and negative matter or energy to stabilize it. Also, since Einstein's equations are incomplete, you need to stabilize quantum corrections (e.g. using string theory). So time travel is only for a very, very advanced civilization.
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Since I’ve been on several TV science shows concerning UFOs, people have asked me about my position. I think it is a legitimate scientific question to ask where these UFO sightings come from. That does not mean that these UFOs are necessarily from another planet, but ....
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The world mourns the passing of Paul Allen, cofounder of Microsoft. But what the media missed was Mr. Allen's bold ventures into the cutting edge of science, sponsoring risky but important ventures such as SETI and mapping the human brain.
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I often get asked: why did I become a physicist? When I was 8, the newspapers said that a great scientist had died, and they published a picture of his desk, with his greatest, unfinished work. I asked myself: what could be so hard, that this great physicist could not finish???
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To actually open a gateway to a parallel universe (assuming its even possible) you would need a collider approaching the Planck energy, a quadrillion times larger than the LHC energy. You would need a Type III civilization to do that.
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Can quantum entanglement send info faster than light? Yes.
Einstein was wrong on this one. The link between two electrons vibrating in unison does send information faster than light. But Einstein still has the last laugh, because...
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All of biology can be expressed in terms of chemistry. All of chemistry can be expressed in terms of physics. But can all of physics be expressed in terms of the God Equation, which can unify all the laws of physics. Einstein spent 30 years trying to find this equation.
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Riddle
#4
. Time travel is full of paradoxes e.g. going back in time and killing yourself as a child. (How can you exist if you just committed suicide in past?) But the quantum theory gives us the simplest solution to these paradoxes, in just one sentence. What is that sentence?
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In the 1990s, US physicists wanted to build the Supercollider (much bigger than the LHC) outside Dallas, TX. But Congress canceled it, so the US lost the lead in high energy physics. Lesson: we physicists have to learn how to engage the public, or else the public won't fund us.
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I sometimes get asked, if we ever find the Theory of
Everything, will I be out of a job? No. Finding this theory is like a beginner figuring out the rules of chess by watching a game. Just because you figure out the rules does not make you a Grand Master.
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Riddle
#10
: I often get asked: If the universe is expanding, then what is it expanding into?
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2,000 years ago, Pythagorus worked out the mathematics of music. Music, he thought, was a paradigm that could explain the enormous complexity of the universe. Today, a new version of this idea, in the form of string theory, is reviving this ancient idea.
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Einstein's "God letter" might sell for 1.5 million this week. But the press got it wrong. The letter does not show Einstein as an atheist. No it merely shows that did not believe in a personal God. He believed in the God of Spinoza, a God of beauty, elegance, and order.
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Just a few weeks ago, a tiny discrepancy was found in the Standard Model concerning electrons and muons. Is this the long awaited crack in the Standard Model, signaling the existence of a higher theory, perhaps even string theory? This has to be watched carefully.
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Of aliens from space ever pick up Voyager 1's record, they will see the earth and know that "Chuck Berry Lived Here."
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Are there other universes? Do Big Bang happen all the time, creating a multiverse of universes? We discuss all these topics with astrophysicist Brian Keating this Saturday on Science Fantastic.
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In string theory, the notes on a vibrating string are sub-atomic particles. Physics is the harmonies on a string. Chemistry is the melodies on these strings. The universe is a symphony of strings.The “mind of God” is cosmic music resonating through 11 dim hyperspace
@neiltyson
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My colleague, the late Stephen Hawking, did not believe in God because there was no time in which to create the universe right after the big bang. But string theory actually takes you before the big bang, to the multiverse. So the big bang is the not the beginning of time.
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What's on the other side of a black hole? Actually, no one knows. In a spinning black hole, general relativity indicates one might pass into a parallel universe, like entering Alice's Looking Glass. But will corrections from hot gases and gravitons radiation close the wormhole?
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Einstein spent 30 years chasing after this fabled equation, and failed. Hundreds of physicists have spent billions of dollars chasing for clues to find this master equation of the universe. This book chronicles the long journey to find this final theory.
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Congress should note the asteroid that blew up over the Bering Sea on Dec 18 with the force of 10 Hiroshima bombs and take the threat seriously.
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HAPPY STAR WARS DAY. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
#starwars
#StarWarsDay
#HappyStarWarsDay
#MayTheFourth
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Time travel. Parallel universes. Wormholes. The other side of a black hole. The multiverse. What happened before the big bang. None of these ideas can be solved using our present physics. Only a theory combining relativity and the quantum theory can do this, i.e. the God Equation
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My new book, The Future of Humanity, is now going to the printers, and will be out officially in February. I will be on a national book tour then. It's all about our exciting destiny in space, about colonizing Mars, the solar system, and eventually the stars.
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So the big bang was just the collision of two universes, or the fissioning of a universe into a baby universe. This concept fits into the inflationary universe theory, which all the data and is the leading theory of the big bang itself. So time did not begin with the big bang.
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What are THOSE two troublemakers up to? We'll tell you soon enough. With
@WilliamShatner
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#HappyLaborDay2016
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Finding the God equation would be the crowning achievement of science, a single equation from which one can derive all the equations governing the entire universe, a single theory to explain everything from origin of the universe to the universe today.
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"I am one with The Force, The Force is one with me." HAPPY STAR WARS DAY. MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU!
#StarWarsDay
#StarWars
#MayThe4th
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Do you want to win a Nobel Prize and be recognized as the next Einstein? Then find the God Equation, which will unify all the laws of the universe into a single equation. The God Equation must contain a) relativity theory b) the Standard Model of quantum particles, and is finite
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I was asked the question about AI: what happens, perhaps a century from now, when robots are so advanced that they are able to remove any fail-safe safeguards that we put in them? Sooner or later, they will outsmart any protection we try to create. What happens then?
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My new book QUANTUM SUPREMACY: HOW THE QUANTUM COMPUTER REVOLUTION WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING is coming May 2, 2023 from
@DoubledayBooks
! Pre-order your copy now:
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If Einstein had never been born ...
string theory would have found general relativity anyway. The lowest vibrations of the string contain spin-two massless particles (the graviton) which in turn can be used to generate the entire theory of general relativity.
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I was touring in Australia when I got word that
@TheRealStanLee
had just passed away. Such a great loss. This holiday weekend, let's give thanks again to Stan Lee. Generations of kids, myself included, became lifelong fans of his comics. He will be greatly missed.
#RIPStanLee
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I often get asked:What might alien intelligent life look like? I don't know. But own evolution favored 3 things: a) some form of stereo eyesight b) some form of thumb or grasping instrument c) language. Even on earth, among animals only humans have developed all three.
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Is time travel possible?, I was asked. Perhaps. Einstein's equations actually have a number of time traveling solutions (rotating universes, rotating cylinders, wormholes, warp bubbles, colliding strings, etc.) In most cases, you need fabulous amounts of energy...
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It's Christmas, and the relation between science and religion often comes up. I quote from Galileo, who said the purpose of science is to understand how the heavens go; the purpose of religion is to understand how to go to heaven.
One is about natural law; the other about ethics
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An asteroid 2,000 feet across will come whizzing near the earth on April 19, missing the earth by 1 million miles.
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On tour, I was asked what was my favorite movie. I am a sci fi junkie. (But sometimes I have to cringe when counting the number of laws of physics which are violated.) My favorite movie is Forbidden Planet; it forced me to imagine a civilization a million years ahead of us.
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Congratulations to Space X for that historic landing of a reusable rocket. This is a milestone in space travel.
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@neiltyson
hang in there! As one physicist to another, we both know that the truth eventually all comes out. All great scientists have had to weather storms of controversy. - Michio
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Here is another incredible photo of the eclipse that I witnessed. Perhaps in the galaxy, a total eclipse is a unique event.
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Time travel. Starships. Alien civilizations. Parallel universes.
Wormholes. The Multiverse. These are some of topics I teach in my new on-line course for fall semester, The Physics of Science Fiction. (Sorry: only registered students at the City College of New York can attend).
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Riddle
#67
. Elephants, because of their huge size, should have a large number of cancerous tumors, since elephants have more cells. But actually, elephants are largely cancer-free, given their size. Why is that?
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Time travel. Warp drive. Parallel Universes. Star Ships.
Teleportation. Alien civilizations. These are some of the topics I will be covering in, The Physics of Science Fiction, starting in fall 2021. (Sorry: this is only for students enrolled at the City College of NY.)
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Riddle
#28
. When Einstein was 16 years old, he asked himself a fateful question: what happens if you can race along side a light beam? He changed human history when he finally found the answer ten years later. What is the answer?
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2,000 years ago, the Greeks had 2 “theories of everything.” Democrites proposed atoms. But Pythagorus, examining the harmonics of a lyre string, said that music could explain the vast complexities we see in nature. Today, perhaps string theory will revive this ancient theory.
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Time travel. Parallel universes. What happened before the big bang. What’s on the other side of a black hole. Are there other dimensions? Are there wormholes. None of these concepts can be explained using relativity and the quantum theory. What is required is the God Equation
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I just saw the latest Spider man cartoon. Great movie. Great fun; better than I thought it would be, with lots of plot twists. (They use an atomic beam collider, like the LHC, to open a gateway to multiple parallel universes. Fortunately, our LHC is much too weak to do that!)
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Time travel. Hyperspace. Star ships. Alien civilizations. Parallel universes. The Multiverse. These are the topics I cover in my course, Physics 332: The Physics of Science Fiction. (It starts Aug. 26, so there is time to register. But sorry, it is for CCNY students only.)
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My newest book: The God Equation: the quest for a theory of Everything, is out April 6, 2021. It discusses the greatest quest in all of science, the single equation which will explain the principles behind the entire universe.
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Riddle 109. If the planet Jupiter did not exist, then life might not have evolved on the earth. Why? Why do we need Jupiter?
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If you can find the God Equation, you will win the Nobel Prize and be heralded as the next Einstein. But if you find this fabled equation, be sure to tell me first, and we can split the Nobel prize money.
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