Parallel Worlds by Department of Physics Michio Kaku

Parallel Worlds

by Department of Physics Michio Kaku

In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, bestselling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space and, most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.

Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our universe may be just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes. If M-theory is proven correct, we may perhaps finally find answer to the question, “What happened before the big bang?” This is an exciting and unforgettable introduction into the new cutting-edge theories of physics and cosmology from one of the pre-eminent voices in the field.

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Parallel Worlds forms a nice little Venn diagram with Charles Seife’s Decoding the Universe and The Elegant Universe, Brian Greene. It’s a great resource to fill in some of the gaps, but as a whole, was a little too focused on far distant hypothetical futuristic visions to live up to the meaty science of the other two books.

I like how, in chapter seven, Kaku says we are all born scientists as children, only most of us neglect to continue our love of it as adults. And mathematics is usually the brick wall. (Yep.)

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