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Hello and welcome to probably science.

My name's Andy Wood.

I'm Matt Kirshan.

We've got a special author guest on,

and I think we should just jump straight into it because we've got him patching in in just a second.

I'm sure you're aware of who he is. I'm sure you've

seen him before. This is Professor Michiokaku, who is the go-to physicist, quantum theorist,

string theorist you would have seen on a hundred different TV shows, futurist as well,

and obviously popular science author as well as research physicist. So he has a new book out right now called The God

Equation. It dropped just this week, The Quest for a Theory of Everything. And we have him on the line.

Very excited for this. I know. Here he is. Mishio Kaku. Thank you so much for joining us.

Glad to be on the show. So this book, you take us through the various steps through history on the quest to find

rules of physics that basically explain the entire universe, the theory of everything,

the grand ultimate aim of physics.

One of the things I hadn't realized until the book was how every single time

there's been a step forward in this, it's come with an accompanying leap forward in technology

in the things we use in our life, like right from Newton's laws through Maxwell's laws

and so on. That's right. When Newton discovered the laws of mechanics and gravity, he unleashed the industrial

revolution, the industrial revolution based on the motion of machines and forces.

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