Part 1: Michio Kaku: Is String Theory = The GOD Equation? (#142)

Dr. Michio Kaku — theoretical physicist, bestselling author,
acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of
science. As co-founder of String Field Theory, Dr. Kaku carries on
Einstein’s quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature
into a single grand unified theory of everything. Support our
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science programming for television including Discovery, Science
Channel, BBC, ABC, and History Channel. Beyond his numerous
bestselling books, he has also been a featured columnist for top
popular science publications such as Popular Mechanics, Discover,
COSMOS, WIRED, New Scientist, Newsweek, and many others. His new
book THE GOD EQUATION is about the quest to unify the rules
governing the heavens and the Earth, and the ultimate challenge:
achieving a monumental synthesis of the two remaining
theories—relativity and the quantum theory. This would be the
crowning achievement of science, a profound merging of all the
forces of nature into one beautiful, magnificent equation to unlock
the deepest mysteries in science: What happened before the Big
Bang? What lies on the other side of a black hole? Are there other
universes and dimensions? Is time travel possible? Why are we here?
What’s at stake is nothing less than our conception of the
universe. 00:00:00 Intro 00:05:36 Could an advanced AI create a
game like chess? 00:08:23 How do you manage your popular fame and
balance that with your work as a physicist? 00:09:34 Who pays for
science, and why we need to sing for our supper. 00:12:39 Do you
think physics has been stagnant for 50 years? Physics envy is real!
00:16:17 Michio's favorite Feynman story. 00:17:45 Michio's lost
bet on the Nobel prize Nobel Prize for work on a unified theory.
00:18:34 Would you dispute Feynman's assertion? Is experimental
verification essential? 00:22:34 How do you respond to the rivals
to string theory? Or how to be the next Einstein. 00:29:16 Why
might there not be different laws that govern different universes?
00:34:53 Is string theory falsifiable? The 5 ways. 00:39:24 What do
you think about Stephen Hawkings cosmological assertions? 00:42:06
You're a professed agnostic. Please explain what that means to you.
00:44:44 Is there a step before a grand unified theory? The physics
desert and Supersymmetry. 00:47:37 What connect string theory to
god? 00:50:47 Your parents were interred during WWII. Did they
harbor resentments? 00:55:13 Can creativity be taught? Support the
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