Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

Michio Kaku has created a scenario of possibilities in the evolution of this world. Kaku explores the potentials of parallel worlds and realities. In quantum physics anything is possible. Kudos for Kaku. Bettye Johnson, award-winning author, Secrets of the Magdalene Scrolls.

In this book you will learn about

1) The Big bang
2) Membrane theory - a theory in support of the big bang. (collision of 2 branes creating the big bang. 2 Branes are like 2 loaves of bread with hyperspace in between them and imagine we are on one of the loaves of bread. For us even with the 3 dimensions, we cant reach out of this loaf of bread and get to the other bread. The the other bread is another brane.)
3) Black holes and white holes
4) worm Hole - Connecting 2 points in the universe, cutting accross the crossection of the universe (The Universe being warped space time)
5) What is hyperspace ?
6) String theory - 11 dimensional space and M theory
7) Time travel - is it possible and what will be required.
8) Negative energy and the casimir effect. Methods of creations of negative energy.
9) Antimatter.
10) Possibilty of Multiple universes just a millimeter away from us.
11) Black hole physics.

Great book !!!!

It will open your mind to newer dimensions of appreciation of particle physics and cosmological mysteries which physicists are working on. All I can say is long live Michio Kaku and the likes of him who popularize esotric concepts and bring it to the level of you and me.



regards, Vikram

In this book you will learn about

1) The Big bang
2) Membrane theory - a theory in support of the big bang. (collision of 2 branes creating the big bang. 2 Branes are like 2 loaves of bread with hyperspace in between them and imagine we are on one of the loaves of bread. For us even with the 3 dimensions, we cant reach out of this loaf of bread and get to the other bread. The the other bread is another brane.)
3) Black holes and white holes
4) worm Hole - Connecting 2 points in the universe, cutting accross the crossection of the universe (The Universe being warped space time)
5) What is hyperspace ?
6) String theory - 11 dimensional space and M theory
7) Time travel - is it possible and what will be required.
8) Negative energy and the casimir effect. Methods of creations of negative energy.
9) Antimatter.
10) Possibilty of Multiple universes just a millimeter away from us.
11) Black hole physics.

Great book !!!!

It will open your mind to newer dimensions of appreciation of particle physics and cosmological mysteries which physicists are working on. All I can say is long live Michio Kaku and the likes of him who popularize esotric concepts and bring it to the level of you and me.



regards, Vikram

The Humanity's Exit Strategy, 4 Jun 2007


Michio Kaku's "Parallel Worlds" is the best popular science non-fiction ever written. Its breakthrough theories reach out to the most naive reader with such a strength that whatever you've known about the Big Bang or religious essays on the beginning and the end of our world, suddenly becomes a tiny moment caught in the universe yet ever-evolving.

It has very logical structure on complex issues such as the essence of non-material dark energy that apparently consists the 73 percent of the energy in our universe, the bubble theories of the existence of parallel universes where the humanity can move to as our planet comes to an end due to the unavoidable universal freeze. Thus, he masterfully presents the idea of multiverses that co-exist in a string, subject to ongoing Big Bangs here and there. As he narrates "...entire universes continually sprout or "bud" off other universes. If true, it would unify two of the great religious mythologies, Genesis and Nirvana. Genesis would take place continually within the fabric of timeless Nirvana".

(Those of you who have also read Simon Singh's "The Big Bang" suddenly have another appreciation of that author as well for his bringing up in a Buddhist family who nevertheless sent him off to a Catholic Sunday School had made him one of the most read scientists.)

Decoding Einstein's and Darwin's at their time distant theories on reading "the God's Mind" and the "end of humanity", Michio Kaku unveils the latest developments in the scientific world on the humanity's beginning and future, claiming that even a string of Big Bangs and multiverses would still need an ultimate creator/composer...

This book is a definite buy on the most indefinite questions we have.

For a long time, I have been in a bind when it comes to buying books about science or mathematics. My bind is this: I am well versed enough in these subjects to find beginner books rather tedious and often a lot of review rather than exposing new ideas, but I am by no means enough of an expert to pick up a high-end theory or textbook and follow it very easily. This has made a lot of science and math books rather unattainable--I am either going to be bored with it or find it too hard.

But Kaku has usually been able to offer good solace, and he does not disappoint with this one. In _Parallel Worlds_, Kaku explores the realms of string theory, quantum universes, time travel, a whole host of experimental physics. Kaku sometimes kowtows to simplifying his subjects to a false degree, but his best analogies explain the wonderful simplicity of an idea as well as its complexities. The issue of dark matter, for example, or what really blew me away was the idea of invisible energy, attraction created between two parallel metal plates not by charge but by an imbalance of virtual particles between the outsides and insides of the metal. Kaku is fine with presenting highly theoretical ideas that have no present means for testing and confirmation, and he is very objective with most about them when it comes to their plausibility and potential faults. Since he has helped develop string theory, he of course has a lot of hope for it, but his overall objectivity and scholarship is enough to trust throughout.

Some parts are worth going slowly through, to follow the train of thought that leads to rather anti-intuitive conclusions, but that is the joy of math and science, after all, and this book is well worth that read.