I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us television, radio, microwaves, gave us the Internet, lasers, transistors, computers - all of that from physics. Michio Kaku More Quotes by Michio Kaku More Quotes From Michio Kaku To understand the difficulty of predicting the next 100 years, we have to appreciate the difficulty that the people of 1900 had in predicting the world of 2000. Michio Kaku appreciate people years Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like? Michio Kaku organs growing body Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously. Michio Kaku distance fiction thinking I have nothing against investment banking, but it's like massaging money rather than creating money. Michio Kaku investment banking creating To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous. Michio Kaku physicist dangerous impossible In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. Michio Kaku space stars moving What would happen if history could be rewritten as casually as erasing a blackboard? Our past would be like the shifting sands at the seashore, constantly blown this way or that by the slightest breeze. History would be constantly changing every time someone spun the dial of a time machine and blundered his or her way into the past. History, as we know it, would be impossible. It would cease to exist. Michio Kaku machines way past I am a figure skater, which helps me appreciate Newton's theory of mechanics. Michio Kaku newton appreciate helping Wormholes were first introduced to the public over a century ago in a book written by an Oxford mathematician. Perhaps realizing that adults might frown on the idea of multiply connected spaces, he wrote the book under a pseudonym and wrote it for children. His name was Charles Dodgson, his pseudonym was Lewis Carroll, and the book was Through The Looking Glass. Michio Kaku glasses book children Quantum entanglement allows you to send information faster than light, which upset Einstein. But Einstein has the last laugh. The information you send on quantum entanglement is random, useless information. So Einsein still has the last laugh. Michio Kaku upset light laughing In science, nothing is ever 100% proven. Michio Kaku proven You can mass-produce hardware; you cannot mass-produce software - you cannot mass-produce the human mind. Michio Kaku produce mass mind No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang. Michio Kaku bangs tests law This is a huge step toward unraveling Genesis Chapter 1, Verse 1-what happened in the beginning. This is a Genesis machine. It'll help to recreate the most glorious event in the history of the universe. Michio Kaku events science history Today, your cell phone has more computer power than all of NASA back in 1969, when it placed two astronauts on the moon. Video games, which consume enormous amounts of computer power to simulate 3-D situations, use more computer power than mainframe computers of the previous decade. The Sony PlayStation of today, which costs $300, has the power of a military supercomputer of 1997, which cost millions of dollars. Michio Kaku phones moon military Global warming is controversial, of course, but the controversy is mainly over whether human activity is driving it. Michio Kaku global-warming controversial driving Already from your own cells scientists can grow skin, cartilage, noses, blood vessels, bladders and windpipes. In the future, scientists will grow more complex organs, like livers and kidneys. The phrase 'organ failure' will disappear. Michio Kaku blood-vessels cells skins Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are there other parallel dimensions and parallel realities? Time travel that we mentioned and going to the stars. Michio Kaku technology stars reality When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your problem. Then you can tackle the problem with a fresh new insight. Einstein liked to play the violin to relax. Every physicist likes to have a past time. Mine is ice skating. Michio Kaku ice play past Science is definitely part of America's infrastructure, the engine of prosperity. And yet science is given almost no visibility in the media. Michio Kaku visibility media america
