512: Michio Kaku | The Quest for a Theory of Everything
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 24 May 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Michio Kaku (@michiokaku) is a theoretical physicist, famed futurist, on-air personality, professor of physics, and bestselling author. His latest book is The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything.
What We Discuss with Michio Kaku:- Why do we need a theory of everything, and what set a young Michio Kaku on the path to search for it?
- How we're all born scientists with a yearning to understand the world around us, and what tends to dampen this enthusiasm for most of us before we even make it to adulthood.
- Why physicists seeking to wrap their minds around a universal string theory are more like daydreaming composers than academic blackboard warriors.
- The four fundamental forces of a universe governed by string theory, and the challenge of discovering how they fit together -- and proving it.
- What makes the human brain so unique in the animal kingdom, and why Michio thinks IQ is a woefully incomplete way of measuring intelligence.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. |
| 0:03.0 | Things that we cannot answer can be answered by the theory of everything. |
| 0:07.0 | Time travel, other universes, gateways to other universes. |
| 0:12.0 | Is it possible that there was a universe before the Big Bang? |
| 0:17.0 | Is there a black hole connected to a white hole of the other end? |
| 0:21.0 | All these questions cannot be answered using Einstein's theory. |
| 0:24.0 | That's why we need a theory of everything. |
| 0:28.0 | So once and for all, we can say time travel does or does not happen. |
| 0:32.0 | That there are other dimensions, other universes, and then of course people ask me the question. |
| 0:38.0 | If there are other universes, then is Elvis Presley still alive in another parallel universe? |
| 0:44.0 | And the answer is, possibly yes. |
| 0:47.0 | In this universe, Elvis Presley died. |
| 0:50.0 | But there could be another universe where Elvis Presley is still building out those hits. |
| 0:54.0 | Yes, that is definitely possible. |
| 0:59.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 1:02.0 | On the Jordan Harbinger Show, we decode the stories, secrets, and skills of the world's most fascinating people. |
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