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The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions o...

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

Maybe somewhere telepaths walked the Earth, but I wasn't one of them. In the process, I began to rea...

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

These computer simulations try only to duplicate the interactions between the cortex and the thalamu...

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask chi...

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

In science fiction, telepaths often communicate across language barriers, since thoughts are conside...

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The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand

Most Jupiter-sized planets orbit the mother star in a highly elliptical orbit. This means they will ...

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One day I went up to my mom and I said, 'Mom, can I have permission to build a 2.3-million electron-...

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I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...

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The universe is a symphony of strings. And the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about,...

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If I wasn't a professional scientist, I'd be an amateur scientist. But plan B was to go into compute...

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In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of spa...

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I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money....

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Sooner or later, we will face a catastrophic threat from space. Of all the possible threats, only a ...

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When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time tra...

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I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 1...

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Time travel and teleportation will have to wait. It may take centuries to master these technology. B...

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Inflation is continuous and eternal, with big bangs happening all the time, with universes sprouting...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a go...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been s...

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So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind t...

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It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro...

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The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for ...

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Beyond work and love, I would add two other ingredients that give meaning to life. First, to fulfill...

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Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable onl...

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Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and ...

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To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Boh...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence.

Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around...

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Our astronauts, when they go orbiting around the earth, they actually come back slightly younger tha...

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The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar ...

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In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on th...

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Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster t...

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[On the practical applications of particle physics research with the Large Hadron Collider.]Sometime...

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Democracies are slow to anger and hesitant to go to war: Voters don't want to sacrifice their childr...

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Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the bu...

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I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everyt...

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I believe that science is the engine of prosperity, that if you look around at the wealth of civiliz...

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One in 200 stars has habitable Earth-like planets surrounding it - in the galaxy, half a billion sta...

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We have to realize that science is a double-edged sword. One edge of the sword can cut against pover...

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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is ...

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Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough ener...

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No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21s...

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Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine ...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories abo...

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Some advice: keep the flame of curiosity and wonderment alive, even when studying for boring exams. ...

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We should try to leave the world a better place than when we entered it. As individuals, we can make...

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It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipul...

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In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and...

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It from bit. It’s an unorthodox theory, which starts with the assumption that information is at the ...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a...

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In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have dou...

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Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and t...

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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is ...

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Einstein's Cosmos: How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time

It is often stated that of all the theories proposed in this century, the silliest is quantum theory...

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Hyperspace

(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller t...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

‎By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will n...

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else...

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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation

The real bottleneck is software. Creating software can be done only the old-fashioned way. A human -...

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Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

When I was a child, it was cool to be a scientist.

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Michio Kaku

Physicist

Born: 1947-01-24

Died: N/A

Michio Kaku (ミチオ カク) (born 24 January 1947) is a Japanese American theoretical physicist, tenured professor and co-creator of string field theory.More