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Michio Kaku: The Theory of Everything
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Every Wednesday, Michio Kaku will be answering reader questions about physics and futuristic science. If you have a question for Dr. Kaku, just post it in the comments section below and check back on Wednesdays to see if he answers it.

Today, Dr. Kaku addresses a question posed by Bruce Vang Vang: What will we gain if we eventually discover the Theory of Everything?

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MICHIO KAKU:

Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study as well as New York University (NYU).
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[Andisimple]

I would love to have the chance to talk to this man directly. Every time I watch one of these videos I am both amazed and humbled. I think we're very lucky to be contemporary with this man. Truly admirable.

[Sylvanas]

"Masters of space and time". Yes, I like that. I like that very much.

[Ttihm]

Wow, These videos make me think of EVERYTHING! This is great altough i can't slepp...

[mkivy]

This is my man! I so enjoy his answers and projections, and possibilities. I am no no way as Intelligent as This man and Tyson and most second graders. But I can add and subtract and spell...I try to understand these men and I try to imagine where we are and where we will go. Blows my mind..I think the closest I’ve been to touching the universe is when I dropped acid back in High-school and college. You open the universe and see what normal ppl see. It was so beautiful. More colors than the color spectrum and really the u overseas lies before u and u understand.problem is when u come down, it’s all gone...

[ddorman]

Exactly!!, well said Michio, we must focus on bringing the future into the present, peace and love, Doug.

[nikobrown]

i love the way Mr Kaka explains things, as if he was explaining them to a child. Even though the physics he is discussing is extreme complicated, he explains it in a way which is easy to understand.

[MrKumpumaeki]

Mastery. Really impressed by your speech

[MrLankyZombie]

This man gives me back some hope for the human race. It bring me enormous joy just to listen to him.

[sisista]

I am in love with this man! Mr. Kaku, please make at least 50 kids, so the human race has actually a future!

[GammaDigamma]

Such excellent understanding of anthropology...

[UnclePprk]

That's it! I'm staying home from school! I learn much more from this guy, anyway!

[eran]

"Masters of space and time", i like that ;)
Scientists are the true heroes of human history.

[Sakura-zurz]

Wowowwoow, I really love this movie. This is one of my favorite movies, because this is the first movie I had ever watched. “However bad life may seem. There is always something you can do and succeed at. While there is life, there is hope!”

[ElTiti]

Here a possible main frame of a Unificated Theory: The Parallel Universes Theory, The Membrane Universes Theory, The Supersimetric Theory, The Quantum Gravity Theory, the Quantum Gravity Loops Theory, The Strings Theory and the Big Bang Theory. Let´s Go!.

[niilopulkkinen]

I've always wondered how great the humankind would be if we would spend more money on science and overall try to improve it a lot more.

Would we find answers to life's hardest questions? Would we even possibly outsmart life by becoming almost immortal?

[FukutenshiYoufan]

I admire Michio Kaku. He's soo d-mn genius. I like listening to his speeches. Deep yet simple.

[senorjiveturkee]

How incredible that in this day and age, I can sit here, a high school student from Mass. and listen to one of the smartest men in the world talk about evreything and anything. The world is so incredible.

[eddie-a]

One of few 21st century Scientist who still carry the legacy of the great revolutionized 20th Century science to the world where we are mostly influenced by popular music, sports and fashion

[renegade]

I get goosebumps just by thinking about scientists having this mystery solved .. I mean discovering the smallest thing that forms the universe including its matter and antimatter and vacuum and the space-time .. too bad we won't get the chance to witness this great science triumph .. maybe next generations will do

[prariepallet]

[E]=(DxB)/R .. One part of the theory of everything!