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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything is a popular science book by the futurist and physicist Michio Kaku. The book was initially published on April 6, 2021, by Doubleday. [1] [2] The book debuted at number six on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending April 10, 2021. [3]
Kaku was born in 1947 in San Jose, California. [2] [3] [4] His parents were both second-generation Japanese-Americans. [5]According to Kaku, his grandfather came to the United States to participate in the cleanup operation after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, and his father and mother were both born in California. [6]
Gilmore praised the book for its "exotic physics" and felt there were "lots of intellectual challenge" but believed there "was a little too much of a pot-pourri." Gilmore wrote that the biggest weakness of the book is how it covers astrophysical history. [4] The book was a finalist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction in the UK. [5]
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 is a 2011 book by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, author of Hyperspace and Physics of the Impossible. In it Kaku speculates about possible future technological development over the next 100 years.
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (1994, ISBN 0-19-286189-1) is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York. It focuses on Kaku's studies of higher dimensions referred to as hyperspace.
According to Kaku, technological advances that we take for granted today were declared impossible 150 years ago. William Thomson Kelvin (1824–1907), a mathematical physicist and creator of the Kelvin scale said publicly that “heavier than air” flying machines were impossible: “He thought X-rays were a hoax, and that radio had no future.” [4] Likewise, Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937 ...
Pages in category "Books by Michio Kaku" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Parallel Worlds (book) Physics of the Future;
Beyond Einstein: The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York, and Jennifer Trainer Thompson. [1] It focuses on the development of superstring theory, which might become the unified field theory of the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism and gravity.