John Stewart Bell and/or Bell's Theorem not even mentioned!

[Ur]

Although on page 61 Kaku mentions Alan Aspect, I couldn't find a reference to John Bell nor Bell's Theorem in the book! They are also not indexed. What a despite!
Kaku's worse than Greene! He even concludes "explaining" EPR and Alan Aspect's experiment not only without referring to loopholes but even with a silly repetitive assurance in Hawking's quote: "God does play dice with the universe"!

[Renee]

I sympathize with you. I made it half way through Kaku's latest novel and found it not nearly as interesting as many of his previous ones. It seemed to me that many of the innovations he describes are ones that I have learned already about from Science Friday on NPR or the numerous science shows on The Science Channel. Anyway, that is my opinion, and I am sure there will be many who disagree.

[Ur]

He is patronizing his readers somehow in such that he does not give the full scientific scale of things and rather sets some kind of a PR stage and platform for himself through which he can propagate his own persona! A Hollywood phantom if you like, but certainly NOT a scientist in the conventional sense!

[Renee]

Kaku is no longer a man, he is a "brand." He probably had one of his teaching assistants write this one.

[Aaron]

I'm still reading through this book, but I think overall it's good. For someone as busy as Kaku, it must be difficult to juggle writing a book with all of his documentary appearances, speaking engagements, and academic work.

[Anthony]

I read this book and liked it. Having read others like it I would put it in fairly high on the scale. Not of technicality, but of his ability to interest people and break down principles in layman's term. Textbooks don't normally sell well to the average reader - this is not a textbook.
As far as his "writing", am I the only one that noticed Stephen Hawking's book(s) are often repeats and "cut and paste"? Yet, he is still widely respected for the most part.
It is my assessment that Kaku's passion is speaking. He runs a school for gifted science students and no doubt if we were enrolled there we would get far more 'technicality' completely above our heads or that of NPR's.
I find it very difficult to criticize ANYONE who can make MRI machine in his mother's garage...

[Ur]

Anthony wrote: "I read this book and liked it. Having read others like it I would put it in fairly high on the scale. Not of technicality, but of his ability to interest people and break down principles in layma..."

particle accelerator*
NOT, MRI.

[Anthony]

Abe wrote: "Anthony wrote: "I read this book and liked it. Having read others like it I would put it in fairly high on the scale. Not of technicality, but of his ability to interest people and break down pri..."

I sit corrected. I commented by memory as I didn't have any of his books on hand. The part that I was referring to was where he wrote in "The Future of the Mind", "...another technology I experimented with in high school was magnetic resonance...I used the principle of magnetic resonance to build a 2.3 million-electron-volt particle accelerator in my mom's garage."

As I said, I sit correct, YET he DID use MR(I) PRINCIPLES to accomplish the building of a particle accelerator. It has been a while since I read one of his books.