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.
Dr. Michio Kaku
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Dr. Michio Kaku
@michiokaku
Official X of Theoretical Physicist, Futurist, Bestselling Author, On-Air Personality, Professor of Physics, and Public Speaker.
- 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.
- 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
- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
00:00- 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.