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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension
by
Michio Kaku
The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the theory of 10-dimensional space. The theory of hyperspace, which Michio Kaku pioneered, may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything that Einstein spent the remaining years of his life searching for.
Paperback, 384 pages
Published
February 1st 1995
by Anchor
(first published 1993)
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Sep 17, 2007
Nathan
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5 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
Buck Rogers fans who build supercolliders.
Shelves:
science,
science-physics-astronomy
Michio Kaku apparently spent his childhood building super-colliders in his parents' garage. It paid off. He's clearly brilliant, and best of all, he's not lost his imagination. One sad fact of modern physicists is that precious few of them have any imagination, and are incapable of thought experiments and relative flights of fantasy. As Kaku has pointed out, fantasy fueled more great discoveries in science than pure science ever did on its own. In this book he uses what we know about quantum phy...more
Aug 31, 2007
Carlos Coral
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4 of 5 stars
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Recommends it for:
People who want to learn Quantum without having to put up with six years of math and science courses
This is the book that allowed me to fool an entire room of graduate students into thinking I was utterly Brilliant. It is a really good crash course on just what the hell Quantum, String, Unified Field Theory ad Superstring actually are. Lays down the history and concepts in a way that makes sense and makes you get it.
Particularly savvy readers will start making the other logical leaps. If we are thinking energy vibrating along a 10-dimensional string, what does that say about the frequency of s...more
Particularly savvy readers will start making the other logical leaps. If we are thinking energy vibrating along a 10-dimensional string, what does that say about the frequency of s...more
If you've thought science is dull or perhaps too far beyond you, then please meet Michio Kaku. He writes about theoretical physics in a way that will fill you with wonder and possibility. He takes what would otherwise be very complex concepts and conveys them using metaphors that every average joe can understand. The number of a-ha moments I had reading this book were too many to count. What a terrific read.
It's up there, though not as accessible, as Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and "The Universe in a Nutshell". Dr. Kaku does spend a considerable time walking the reader through how the theories of space-time and hyperspace arose and some of the historical and more mathematical stuff can be a little dense. However, the book opens really nicely with very vivid and amazing explanations of just how freaky hyperspace can be as well as the implications for the world of physics. The book also ends...more
another amazing theoretical physics book for the general population. i've re-read this one several times too. Dr. Kaku is an inspiration.
this quote is one of my all time favorites:
"...We now believe that the mind of God is music reverberating through 10 dimensional hyperspace..." Dr. Michio Kaku
this book explores so many fantastic ideas- worm holes, parallel universes and things you only thought were possible in Sci-Fi TV/films.
it will challenge you to think and look at the world in a whole new...more
this quote is one of my all time favorites:
"...We now believe that the mind of God is music reverberating through 10 dimensional hyperspace..." Dr. Michio Kaku
this book explores so many fantastic ideas- worm holes, parallel universes and things you only thought were possible in Sci-Fi TV/films.
it will challenge you to think and look at the world in a whole new...more
نویسنده این کتاب "میکیوکاکو"، جدیدترین فرضیه های علمی در مورد جهان پیرامون ما را مورد بحث قرار میدهد. نشان میدهد که این عالم نه سه یا چهاربعدی؛ بلکه در واقع ده بعدی است. در حقیقت اگر بشر بتواند فقط بعد پنجم را در اختیار گیرد، به تحولی به مراتب عمیقتر از کشف نیروی الکتریسیته که قرن گذشته را متحول کرد دست میابد. نویسنده نشان میدهد آنچه امروز برای ما ناممکن و جادویی است برای موجودی که بر دستکاری و کنترل بعد پنجم مهارت یافته کاری ساده و پیش پا افتاده خواهد بود. این کتاب از دانشمندی سخن میراند، که به...more
Hyperspace by Michio kaku is about defining and explaining the theories about parallel worlds, the 5th dimension, the universe and things we don't fully understand quite yet. He starts by explaining different theories there are in the world and what we know and don't know. What we can be sure of and what we can’t be sure of, in this he explains very thoroughly about each theory.
The book covers lots of points in it, how ever the particular points it covered was about parallel worlds, which it exp...more
The book covers lots of points in it, how ever the particular points it covered was about parallel worlds, which it exp...more
Michio Kaku takes the reader on a crash course through the universe and beyond. What! Beyond! What could possibly be beyond our own known universe? Well ignorant coy fish/human beyond our universe lies infinite other universes with infinite different dimensions in each universe. And beyond universes? Hyperspace. an immeasurable realm that does not contain the feeble constraints of time and space found in our universe. How does one get to hyperspace? Worm holes of course, which hypothetically can...more
It was OK just because the science fiction at the end was a lot of fun.
Dr. Kaku alternates through two styles -- talking to the reader like they're completely retarded and then talking to them like they've taken a college physics class. I'm neither, I understood what he was writing, and was just insulted. The cornerstone of Hyperspace theory is that there were 10 dimensions for a fraction of a fraction of time in the first fraction of time of existence for this universe, but 6 of them probably d...more
Dr. Kaku alternates through two styles -- talking to the reader like they're completely retarded and then talking to them like they've taken a college physics class. I'm neither, I understood what he was writing, and was just insulted. The cornerstone of Hyperspace theory is that there were 10 dimensions for a fraction of a fraction of time in the first fraction of time of existence for this universe, but 6 of them probably d...more
This is one of the popular science books that got me so interested in doing physics in the first place. Accessible to me before I even took a physics class, it should be accessible to most anyone with interest. Very interesting questions raised about space and time/parallel universes/etc. New ideas (as of date published: 1994) are discussed in a non-technical way. Also, very well written and easy to read (with humor and everything!).
Kaku takes his readers on an amazing journey from Big Bang to the end of time. His uncanny ability to make even the most esoteric theories of cosmology understandable (at least from a high-level) makes Hyperspace an engaging read for any laymen pondering the wonders of the universe.
Michio Kaku's purpose in writing Hyperspace is to educate its readers about the origin of the 4th dimension and to explore the possibilities of higher dimensions. Kaku provides exceptional support and explains it phenomenally. To help his readers understand what a higher dimensional being would be like, he depicts it as an omnipotent god who can remove things from the 3rd dimension and move things around in ways impossible in three dimensions, like a three dimensional being can remove a two dime...more
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This book should be considered a primer to astrophysics as well as science fiction. Michio Kaku impressively imparts the basic laws of the universe, hyperspace, and a fascinating tour of inter-dimensional interaction in layman's terms. You won't find the bogus blather of a galaxy far...far away here, but rather the actual principles therorized and perscribed in movies like Star Trek or books akin to Beyond Mars Crimson Fleet.
This book is not only thought provoking, but draws you into a realm be...more
This book is not only thought provoking, but draws you into a realm be...more
Universes curled up into the size of a pencil eraser???!
Incredible brain food. Who needs religion when the world and its parts just keep going and going and going....?
Incredible brain food. Who needs religion when the world and its parts just keep going and going and going....?
I remember finding this one years ago at an estate sale, before Professor Kaku became such a welcome fixture on The Science Channel or PBS. His explanations of complex theoretical physics are the best around for the non-scientist, and even better for someone like me, since every illustrative example he gives for various phenomena and theory come from popular science fiction. So, if there's some sort of complicated idea behind quantum mechanics you want to understand better, well, there's a Star...more
I've always been fascinated of myth origins, even the science of it. How people go about solving it or narrating its fiction is wonderful.
I came upon Michio Kaku's book at the recommendation of a friend. He had lent to me the book because I had expressed interest in the subject of physics - how it defines the world, the Cosmos, the Universe. What led to me to finish the book (because I had always doubt in my mind that science was indeed a great thing, something marvelous to learn, yet quite too...more
I came upon Michio Kaku's book at the recommendation of a friend. He had lent to me the book because I had expressed interest in the subject of physics - how it defines the world, the Cosmos, the Universe. What led to me to finish the book (because I had always doubt in my mind that science was indeed a great thing, something marvelous to learn, yet quite too...more
I read this book when I was twelve and the analogy of the koi pond at the beginning stuck with me for 15 years until a friend described the same story in the beginning of a book she was perusing in a bookstore. That's how great a book this is--to stick with you that long. Dr. Kaku uses the most striking and beautiful imagery to explain some of the most exciting theories in physics. Not only does the explain them well but also shows the history of these theories and how they are connected to one...more
Oct 19, 2009
Jennifer
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5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommended to Jennifer by:
Dad
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2009
Fantastic book that moves between science and science fiction. It manages to be technical and readable. It was a bit of a slow read for me, a couple of pages would have me pondering for hours.
"Instead of being overwhelmed by the universe, I think that perhaps one of the deepest experiences a scientist can have, almost approaching a religious awakening, is to realize that we are children of the stars, and that our minds are capable of understanding the universal laws that they obey. The atoms wi...more
"Instead of being overwhelmed by the universe, I think that perhaps one of the deepest experiences a scientist can have, almost approaching a religious awakening, is to realize that we are children of the stars, and that our minds are capable of understanding the universal laws that they obey. The atoms wi...more
Wouldn’t it be amazing to be able to explain all the things in life with one short and simple equation? Professor Michio Kaku takes us through the search for this equation in the book Hyperspace. He takes those silly questions that children ask about the world and uses simple analogies in order to explain the most complex of concepts. He also tries to grasp the interest of a broad audience by showing how theories in physics developed throughout history and how they have affected famous authors o...more
Love this book - made me appreciate the universe and fueled my love of physics (again).
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After reading Drunvalo Melchizedek`s two volume set The Ancient Secret of the Flower of Life (a good source read) I had to go see what the superstring guys where thinking. And.. Michio Kaku is the top man of hyperspace. It gave me a clearer understanding of life and death somehow, and I learned so much about a person I have admired for so long. Easy reading in a highly complex subject matter. There is something here for anyone who has ever pondered the big questions of life, plus many great anec...more
Accept no substitute. Whether you are a hardened theoretical physicist looking to have an idle read, or a new-to-the-field novice looking for a strong foundation, "Hyperspace" is the definitive work of superstring theory. Susskind and Hawking are powerhouses to be sure, but Kaku has a way of forcing concepts and pictures into your psyche, even if the raw mathematical concepts are beyond understanding.
Brilliant, elegant, and rarely long winded, "Hyperspace" might change your life like it did min...more
Brilliant, elegant, and rarely long winded, "Hyperspace" might change your life like it did min...more
I don't remember this book particularly well. But I do remember that I liked it at the time. It got me thinking about interesting mathematical concepts before I learned them, formally, in classes.
That said, I think popular science writing is particularly bad. In that it misconstrues its subjects as to be almost entirely incorrect... May not be the case here, but I can't tell because I don't know physics that well.
I'm somewhat surprised that I left this off my goodreads list until now... Must hav...more
That said, I think popular science writing is particularly bad. In that it misconstrues its subjects as to be almost entirely incorrect... May not be the case here, but I can't tell because I don't know physics that well.
I'm somewhat surprised that I left this off my goodreads list until now... Must hav...more
I purchased this a number of years ago when I played with the potential relevance of quantum theory and other scientific theories for an understanding of politics. In the end, I gave up the quest, as it was clear to me that the only gain was in metaphoric analysis--and metaphor is not that compelling to me. This is one of the popular volumes that I read. Issues addressed? Hyperspace, parallel universes, the tenth dimension. . . . This ended up not being for me. For others, though, it represents...more
Picked this up at my local library book sale. Written in 1994, its probably somewhat outdated now, but the basic explanations of quantum theory and string theory are probably still relevant (atleast as far as I know!) I have tried to get through Hawking and Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos with little success. I find Michio Kaku's writing to be more accessible and his analogies enlightening. Do I now understand Quantum Wave Theory? No. But I atleast feel I have the tiniest glimmer of a genera...more
This book by Michio Kaku talks about his theories on hyperspace and whether it exists or not. I personally found this book to be very boring. I had read his first book and found it to be very interesting and thought provoking. This one, however, proved to be quite dull and uninteresting. He seemed to just be rambling on and on. I never really was able to find a unifying theme behind the entire thing.
I would reccomend this anyone who is a die-hard of Kaku, but not many people other than this wou...more
I would reccomend this anyone who is a die-hard of Kaku, but not many people other than this wou...more
Although published in 1994 and therefore somewhat dated, this book is still an excellent introduction to the basics of superstring theory and its implications for time travel, the existence of multiple dimensions and our understanding of the nature of the universe. Kaku is a leader in the field, and he writes with a deep understanding of his subject and a clear, almost conversational style that makes the difficult concepts he presents surprisingly accessible. The subject clearly excites him, and...more
Jan 02, 2010
Jim Aker
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4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
Those interested in Theoretical Physics
Michio Kaku’s Hyperspace is a tour de force of much of what is known and what is yet unknown concerning the fascinating field of theoretical physics. Published in 1994 with a plethora of other volumes from a rather august company of physicists such as Kip Thorne and Murray Gell-Mann on the burgeoning science of Heterotic String Theory, Dr. Kaku’s book adds an interesting twist by exploring the multidimensionality of the new thinking. Its material is now a bit dated in its approach to the pursuit...more
Ahem.
If this is what physicists work on all day, I got ripped off in high school.
Okay, so half of this book is dedicated to "things we might be able to do in a million years IF we don't blow ourselves up before then and IF our math is correct" (that million, by the way? not an exaggeration). But before this book I didn't understand how a theory can become a theory just "because the math works." Frankly, I still don't--entirely--but my understanding is closer. I would have liked to see a few of t...more
If this is what physicists work on all day, I got ripped off in high school.
Okay, so half of this book is dedicated to "things we might be able to do in a million years IF we don't blow ourselves up before then and IF our math is correct" (that million, by the way? not an exaggeration). But before this book I didn't understand how a theory can become a theory just "because the math works." Frankly, I still don't--entirely--but my understanding is closer. I would have liked to see a few of t...more
I finished a book! It is this one.
At first I was not really a fan of this book, but it got better and better the whole way through, and was pretty much awesome by the end. At the beginning, I found the pop culture references to be excessive, and wanted it to get on down to the business of explaining the physics of ten-dimensional space. Then, it inserted a math picture accompanied by words that did not adequately explain the math picture to me. Stepping outside my own physics-educated perspectiv...more
At first I was not really a fan of this book, but it got better and better the whole way through, and was pretty much awesome by the end. At the beginning, I found the pop culture references to be excessive, and wanted it to get on down to the business of explaining the physics of ten-dimensional space. Then, it inserted a math picture accompanied by words that did not adequately explain the math picture to me. Stepping outside my own physics-educated perspectiv...more
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Dr. Michio Kaku is a theoretical physicist, best-selling author, and popularizer of science. He’s the co-founder of string field theory (a branch of string theory), and continues Einstein’s search to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into one unified theory.
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