Michio Kaku Quotes - Page 6

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• A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.

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  Stars, Science, Years

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• Combining quantum entanglement with wormholes yields mind boggling results about black holes. But I don't trust them until we have a theory of everything which can combine quantum effects with general relativity. i.e. we need to have a full blown string theory resolve this sticky question.

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  Yield, Mind, Black

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

  Michio Kaku

  Two, Life Is, Sagan

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• Language and emotions are too easily misread. For example, laughing can mean many things: laughing with you or at you. Does that laugh reflect joy, anger, or that s/he's about to fire you? Too many jobs require complex feelings, pattern recognition, common sense, and the human touch.

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  Mean, Laughing, Common Sense

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Moving, Space

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• We physicists don't like to admit it, but some of us are closet science fiction fans. We hate to admit it because it sounds undignified. But when we were children, that's when we got interested in science, for a lot of us.

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  Children, Hate, Sound

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• We are not at the end but at the beginning of a new physics. But whatever we find, there will always be new horizons continually awaiting us.

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  New Horizons, Physics, Ends

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• I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

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  Christmas, Powerful, Law

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• Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Light, Self

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I hope we find evidence of dark matter in the lab and in outer space. This would go a long way to proving the correctness of string theory, which is what I do for a living. That is my day job. So string theory is a potentially experimentally verifiable theory.

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  Jobs, Dark, Space

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become a time traveler and not have to worry about causing a time paradox.

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  Reality, Rivers, Worry

  Interview With Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• It would take a civilization far more advanced than ours, unbelievably advanced, to begin to manipulate negative energy to create gateways to the past. But if you could obtain large quantities of negative energy-and that's a big "IF" - then you could create a time machine that apparently obeys Einstein's equation and perhaps the laws of quantum theory.

  Michio Kaku

  Past, Law, Civilization

  "Borrowed Time". Interview with J.R. Minkel, www.scientificamerican.com. November 24, 2003.

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• We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

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  Zoos, Animal, Jurassic Park

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• ... each of the 24 modes in the Ramanujan function corresponds to a physical vibration of a string. Whenever the string executes its complex motions in space-time by splitting and recombining, a large number of highly sophisticated mathematical identities must be satisfied. These are precisely the mathematical identities discovered by Ramanujan.

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  Numbers, Space, Identity

  Michio Kaku (1995). “Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension”, p.173, Oxford University Press, USA

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• To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

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  Needs, Passionate, Affair

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• We have learned more about the brain in the last fifteen years than in all prior human history, and the mind, once considered out of reach, is finally assuming center stage.

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  Years, Brain, Mind

  Michio Kaku (2014). “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest To Understand, Enhance and Empower the Mind”, p.11, Penguin UK

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• There are so many wonders awaiting us. If we can upload memories, then we might be able to combat Alzheimers, as well as create a brain-net of memories and emotions to replace the internet, which would revolutionize entertainment, the economy, and our way of life. Maybe even to help us live forever, and send consciousness into outer space.

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  Memories, Space, Forever

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• I think a colony in space will take much longer than sci fiction writers think. It costs $10,000 to put a pound of anything into near earth orbit. That is your weight in gold. It costs about $100,000 a pound to put you on the moon. And it costs $1,000,000 a pound to put you on Mars.

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  Thinking, Moon, Space

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• Cesium, iodine from the Chernobyl reactor accident went around the world many times and everyone on the Earth has a piece of Chernobyl in their bodies, but it's very tiny - too small to cause much damage.

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  Iodine, Pieces, World

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most likely possibility, favored by current data, is that the universe will die in Ice, not Fire. However, personally I believe that trillions of years from now, we (if we are still around) will have the technology to leave the universe, perhaps in an interdimensional life boat, and move to a warmer universe.

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  Believe, Moving, Technology

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• Our grandkids will lead the lives of the gods of mythology. Zeus could think and move objects around. We'll have that power. Venus had a perfect, timeless body. We'll have that, too. Pegasus was a flying horse. We'll be able to modify life in the future.

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  Horse, Moving, Thinking

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• An event horizon, or the point of no return, is only a byproduct of the bending of space. However, electricity and magnetism, by themselves, have no event horizon. It gets complicated, however, if a black hole has charge, and then this new solution does have an event horizon.

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  Space, Black, Events

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• No matter how beautiful the theory, one irritating fact can dismiss the entire formulism, so it has to be proven.

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  Beautiful, Matter, Facts

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• After that cancellation [of the Superconducting Super Collider in Texas, after $2 billion had been spent on it], we physicists learned that we have to sing for our supper. ... The Cold War is over. You can't simply say "Russia!" to Congress, and they whip out their checkbook and say, "How much?" We have to tell the people why this atom-smasher is going to benefit their lives.

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  Life, War, Learning

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• Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.

  Michio Kaku

  Apples, Fire, Upset

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