Non-fiction
Book Review
Parallel Worlds
by
Michio Kaku
In
Parallel
Worlds, author Michio Kaku gathers together a body of
scientific evidence to paint a picture of reality far stranger
than most of us can imagine. Thanks to new discoveries made
possible by the Hubble space telescope and the WMAP and COBE
satellites, scientists—astronomers, cosmologists and physicists—are
reevaluating and reshaping theories that purport to explain
the nature of the universe.
Supported
by new knowledge made possible by extraordinary technological
advances, Professor Kaku takes his readers on an unforgettable
journey into a realm of black holes, wormholes, parallel worlds
and multidimensional space. In the simplest possible terms he
describes scientific theories that are literally transforming
cosmology from the inside out.
Delving
deep into a physical world that lies beneath the more familiar
surfaces of consensus reality, Kaku revisits quantum mechanics
and Einstein's Theory of Relativity before beginning an exploration
of string theory and its most recent iteration, M theory. If
M theory proves to be the much-sought-after "theory of
everything," it will provide a reconciliation of primary
universal forces.
Speculating
on the possibilities of time travel, parallel worlds (perhaps
an infinite number of them), dark matter, a 10-or-11-dimension
multiverse in which most of the dimensions are hidden, and sub-microscopic
loops of vibrating 'string' a billion times smaller than an
atom, Michio Kaku leads us into a world far stranger than any
conjured by science fiction.
Parallel
Worlds author Michio Kaku, the Henry Semat Professor
of Theoretical Physics at the Graduate Center of the City University
of New York, is also the author of Visions, Beyond Einstein
and Hyperspace.
Review by Phil Hanson
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