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>> Michio Kaku is a fraud and a charlatan.

I think other wise. I think he is a great communicator and a great scientist.

>> ^Irishman:
Michio Kaku is a fraud and a charlatan.



My sarcasm meter is on the fritz... Please be sarcasm.

Michio Kaku is a fraud and a charlatan.

Part 2 is called LIFETIME
http://www.videosift.com/video/Michio-Kaku-BBC-TIME-Part-2-of-4
The most powerful effect of time on our lives is the way it limits us. Our knowledge of death is so embedded in our lives and spirituality that, were immortality possible, would we lose the sense that makes us human?

I really hope if they invent a teleporter, Michio Kaku is the first person to step inside.

I wish Michio Kaku would disappear, and take his endless stream of awful awful books with him.

>> ^Majortomyorke:
Use of the word "Perception" appears to be greatly limited in this experiment, which is exactly what appears to be affected.


Michio Kaku is a hack.

Mink, I'd say that your description is essentially correct. I wish that I could post Michio Kaku's 'Time' documentary series here, because they dedicated a whole show to your question. They repeated the free fall experiment with even better methodology. The subjects viewed a series of random numbers as they fell, and it turned out that their response time for recognizing the numbers was much better than when they were on the ground (about 1.5x quicker on average from what I remember.) [ < My memory failed me, this isn't correct, see comment below.]

What determines our individual 'clock speed' is an open question as far as I know. We do know where our '24hr clock' is located though, it's called the .

Of, course I'm just being silly.
But seriously, for Michio Kaku, and Ray Kurzweil, two individuals for whom my respect for each independently approaches a kind of singularity in and of itself, to begin to come togther ideologically... That's like some kind of Epic Level Geek Porn right there.

Michio Kaku is the man who planted the seeds in my mind for my fascination and love of physics. My first exposure to him was on the program "Big Thinkers" on the network ZDtv (later known as TechTV), back in the mid 1990's. I've read everything I could get my hands on that he had anything to do with ever since.

Of course, I can't in all fairness give him full credit for my "intellectual awakening"; I think it is more likely that he was just in the right place at the right time. He got lucky. But even knowing that, there lingers quite a bit of fondnes for having my sense of wonder ignighted by his ideas.

So, of course later, when I found out that he was getting involved in the Singularity movement (this film touches upon that), you could say my hardon hasn't subsided since.

(I split the following up into a few posts because it was too large.)

I don't claim to be an expert, or an authority on this stuff. I will say that I've been fascinated by it on a personal level for over ten years. It started back in the ZDtv days (before TechTV), when Michio Kaku was on an episode of Big Thinkers. I read anything I can get my hands on, and watch all material that comes my way.

Take the following for what it's worth, I'm not trying to proselytize an agenda, just share some of my private thoughts.

I've got a number of analogies I could use here for describing the entire (11 dimensional) universe. Two of my favorites are a VHS tape and hologram baseball card. They both kind of work the same way in so far as how they relate to the thought experiment. I'll explain both.

In the case of the VHS tape, it has your favorite movie on it. You know it word for word, line for line. You've seen it a hundred times. But no matter how many times you watch it, the story will always end the same way. But, from the point of view of the characters (I'm talking in a 4th wall sense; the characters themselves, not the actors playing them), have no idea what will happen next. In fact, the same was true for you the first time you saw the movie. There may have been some foreshadowing, but hell, there's some of that in real life too.

The point is, with the tape, you can fast forward, rewind, pause, browse the timeline however you choose. But the characters are oblivious to this. You aren't really manipulating their timeline, you're just browsing it for your own perspective. If you eject the tape though, you're holding the entire timeline. You've collapsed their universe into a 3 dimensional object. It only has a 4th dimension when you put it in the VCR. When you watch it. But even during the novel first experience of the initial viewing, the end of the story was there. It was always there, predetermined at the end of the tape.

On to the baseball card for a moment. Now, given various factors in the developing process, that hologram card has a lot more information than what you can see at one time, flat on. You have to tilt it one way or an other to get a different view -- to access more of the data. And yet, viewing the different angels don't create that data. Knowing they're there doesn't make them exist. It only makes you aware of them. Holding the card, you still hold all the potential that image has all at once, in that one object, even if you can't be privy to it all at once.

Michio Kaku - Parallel Worlds or Brian Green The Fabric of The Cosmos

Anything by Ed Witten, he is the guy that invented m-theory

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“I find this stuff extremely fascinating. Out of curiosity, can anybody suggest any good books to read on the subject matter? Thanks.”

I really think the preamble from www.tenthdimension.com is worth mentioning alongside this video. It's included right at the end of the video, but is only seen for a fairly short time:

"The "theory of reality" that I advance on this website and in the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension" is not the one that is commonly accepted by today's physicists. Anyone wanting to know more about the currently established thinking behind string theory and the tenth or eleventh dimension should refer to such excellent books as "Parallel Worlds" by Michio Kaku, "The Fabric of the Cosmos" by Brian Greene, or "Warped Passages" by Lisa Randall.

I invite you to think of this as an entertaining diversion that for some people will have a strong and thought-provoking connection to their impression of how the world really works. If you click on "The Forum", you will be taken to a page that gives readers an opportunity to debate the concepts presented in the book and this website more fully. Enjoy! " - Rob Bryanton

The presentation in the video suggests that it is presenting factual information, so I think it's important that it be qualified as what it really is: a hypothesis.

With all that said, an excellent video.

check also Michio Kaku talking about artificial intelligence:
http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=1634