I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear and Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

The immediate practical implication of the theory of everything is nothing. It's not going

to affect you and me. I'll be very blunt about it. However, it'll answer some of the deepest

philosophical, religious questions of all time. Was there a beginning? What happened before

the beginning? What happened before Genesis? It could answer these questions once and

for all. Whether there are other universes, whether there are gateways to these other

universes. And then of course, I often get the question. If there are other universes,

then is Elvis Presley still alive in another parallel universe? And the answer is, yes,

he could very well still be alive, not in our universe. But in another parallel universe,

he could still be building out those hits, hit after hit.

That's Michio Kaku, who has taken up the challenge that frustrated even Albert Einstein. The

challenge to find a theory of everything. Or as he puts it in his new book with his characteristic

flair for capturing our attention, to discover the God equation.

Michio Kaku is a major proponent of string theory. The idea that all of matters made up of

tiny vibrating rubber band-like strings. And he believes the field is on track to reveal

as he puts it, the mind of God. This is so great to be talking with you today because

you are so fantastic as a communicator. Your books are so readable that I find myself

going back over sentences just to see how you did it. Did you find you had this talent

or did you work on it studiously?

Well, I go back to what Einstein once said that unless a theory can be explained to a child,

the theory is probably useless. Meaning that every theory has a principle, a picture,

a simple capitalization that even children can understand. So I try to strive for that.

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