Big Thinkers - Michio Kaku [Theoretical Physicist]
Big Thinkers is a former ZDTV (later TechTV) television program. It featured a half-hour interview with a "big thinker" in science, technology, and other fields. Interviews were filmed in a 16:9 format and intercut with public domain material from the Prelinger Archives. This archival footage (mostly film clips from the 1940's and 50's) was used to create visual metaphors highlighting the speaker's points.
This episode features Michio Kaku. He is a Japanese American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory, and a futurist. He is a popularizer of science, host of two radio programs and a best-selling author.
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Michio Kaku is a legend.
@giuseppeLizzi-rj3er
5 ай бұрын
HE definitely is
Q: What is the difference between physics and theoretical physics? A: You can touch theoretical physics.
@marciodesouza73
8 жыл бұрын
+Alphonsus Tobin Physics is the Nature. Theoretical Physics is how we understand the Nature.
They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I said I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard.
@johnnyb9218
5 жыл бұрын
Your point being?
Thanks for clearing that up! Must be pretty great knowing everything.
I love how people will watch this inspiring video then post on the bottom what they thing they know about Physics. Iv seen some very strange responses below and I find it amusing as I find people arguing on topics that don't exist or mention things that are TOTALY wrong. Keep it up guys:D
witnessed one of the greatest theoretical physicist who help invent, make and use the internet using windows 7. im pleased.
This guy is the best keep up the good work
I love a good word of advice.
For me it is beautiful to find out new stuff. Stuff that nobody has seen before. In my opinion it is boring to see stuff you already know about, over and over again.
This guys is amazing! :D
isn't it more exiting when you know everything about all that crazy stuff thats going on in there?
brilliant !
A theoretical physicist and a professional ice skater! I must meet this man in person!
That assassins creed statement comes to mind... "Nothings real, everything is permitted". I appreciate your well thought out response, I have been putting in a lot of study into this idea lately and think I may have stumbled across something and I would like to write a book about it but I think I should whittle down my focus a little more :) . Such a universal topic would be over 1,000 pgs easily and Idk if I have the attention span for that lol
Infinite loop{ Var E1 (Contraction)=1; Var E2 (Push)=1; Speed= C; Coordinates: Starts everywhere simultanously; Vectors: Every direction simultanously; };
michio figure skating was the most epic thing ive ever seen
Michio kaku is my favorite physicist.
an idea is given existance by the mere act of defining it...
I like this guy
RIP TechTV
Love you Michio Kaku, keep making science fun for the stupid people like me!!!!!!
The beauty of science is what I see. It's order.
It's the other way around for me...it gets much more interesting and so much richer etc...
People will see things and fill in things for themselves initially. It happened in history and pre-history that man explained things in the ways they could because they didn't understand much of the world compared to today. As your understanding increases by time by researching and talking with other people you begin to think differently about that what you had seen before. In science, scientists know that what is 'true' today will probably be replaced by a much higher understanding tomorrow.
3:50 "Some people ask me the Question, are you seeing equations behind everything? I must confess I do" I know this feeling. I am a chemist and the firework on new year got pretty boring because i know what is happening...
Like dropping pebbles into a pond dividing a unit of space/ multiplied by one unit of time. The greater the mass/energy density of inward spherical waves generating heat by multiplying electrical potential along cubic dynameters compressing the wave amplitude now+4-0-4+-the shorter the expanding transverse waves dividing gravity from its source. Energy compression pi +1=mass. de-compressing C2 (forming acceleration-G) from zero curvature, wave front by wave front, as time unfolds. E2=mc2c4+p2c2
2:00 Michio: "I wake up in the morning not giving a f***..."
i am by such people's side. if someone can find another solution, that's ok, even if it is against my faith. everything must be clear, no matter how painful the truth is. i like people like Jordano Bruno with new ideas, what's a problem?! also the people who really can and want to have higher understanding about concrete things, let them search the answers. i think this is very good feature, when people have interests and have questions, need clearer answers and they search them, that's good.
wow, thank you very much. I have a very poor understanding of physics and never realised the difference between a photon and fermion... I didn't even know what a fermion was.
Does anyone know what the song that begins at 7:51 is?
whats the symphony at 7:50 called ????
what a genius
Bored!? you should find it even more fascinating.
What's the title of that piece at 1:38 someone tell me pls
ive heard this dam atom smasher he built story millions of times. he says it in every speech he does.
9:00 blades of glory!
oh, i like your optimism. may it be ;)
Yeah, but we still can't handle how something came from nothing. Nothing can be unstable, but then it is unstable, not nothing. I've tried everything to get around this.
RIP tech tv
I remember him saying no then years later he said yes
2/2 But also don't forget that the universe only exists in a concrete form by our perception of it (and this was only discovered in the scientific realm in the 20s - spiritually and philosophically this may be considered an old Eastern idea). So the extent of the deep reality of the universe will continue to be concretised as our ability to perceive it deepens.
14:59 did the prof say 'light'? if so, does that mean that everything is fundamentally consisting of light (if we go even beyond quarks?) please can somebody explain?
@zairoxpunk
4 жыл бұрын
He was talking about the strings. The strings vibrate at different frequencies, so he said if you could change the frequency, it'd change to photon, gluons, yang mills particles, something like that I think.
What music plays at 17:51 - 19:15 It's beautiful!
@jojodi
3 жыл бұрын
I'm only 6 years late :) Most of the music in this program is hard to find. 17:51 is the Adagio from Mendelssohn's 10th Sinfonia. The program also has the Andante from Sinfonia 2, and Grave from Sinfonia 9.
I am working toward my degree in Physics. Just because I know how it happens does not mean I cannot have a fun time haha. I actually get more excited, thinking of all the minor interactions happening within the display in the quantum world, it amazes me haha.
why aren't these people famous
@Destroymaster100
8 жыл бұрын
+John Borenius some of them are. many of them
whats the song at 10:30?
the left hand and right aren't compatible? can anyone explain how :)
love how he says platypus :)
Assumptions at it's best.
@haley-and_gaming6371
3 жыл бұрын
this comment is narrow mindedness at its best.
@jbangz2023
3 жыл бұрын
Assumptions, open minded?
As the first guy you talk to in the game Morrowind says: "INT-RESTING."
must be nice being in the subway and hey Michio Kaku
Michio is the source of my hulk strength.
I've heard, and only heard (I think it was from Stephen Hawking) that formulas for the conservations of matter allows for matter to be created in only for a very short time only to disappear again. But I don't know the formulas and it's been awhile since I remember hearing it but if does allow for matter to be created and destroyed if only for a brief moment then perhaps the universe is just matter taking turns popping in and then popping off keeping everything the constant yet changing.
I believe that darkness have a big rol on everything ..
of what are strings made
Boring? I just get more excited because I know what's going on and I think it's mind blowing :p
2:13-2:10 same thing he said in the documentary Einstein
cool guy
4:13 - 4:24
His mother was/is great!!!! ;-)
1/2 We have the intellect to understand the universe only to the extent of our intellect! Future generations and species will understand it more, and I don't mean just more detail. I mean completely new concepts and ways of experiencing the universe that we cannot fathom.
I think he was referring to e=mc2
Space doesn't end, it is expanding, this is a proven fact!
I can understand calculus and the heavenly bodies
He can skate... BOSS
Actually, the latest theories are that the universe is slowing down
I wish he was teaching me at university!!!
He was a ballin 8 year old.
Simply put, because of leftover background microwaves/radiation from the moment after the big bang.
Hi, I have a theory I'd like to have someone else elaborate on. Sound travels faster when you send it through objects of greater density (I.E sound goes through water faster than through air). A singularity at the center of a black hole, supposedly, has infinite density. Were you to send sound through a singularity, could those sound waves travel at or even beyond the speed of light? Ignore that sound doesn't travel through the vacuum of space, or that testing this on Earth would be a disaster.
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the metaphor of music consisting of 10 dimensional hyperspace is weighty - hard to even imagine - but if all is string theory, then music is a perfectly good image. "Music of the Spheres" - by Debussy if I'm not mistaken. Physicists and musicians should try to communicate more.
could you make string computer instend of quantum
Do you know exactly where the expanse of space ends? You will never see it, You will never prove its existence. If not, perhaps there are other things you don't know.
He should read the "Autobiography of a Yogi". I am no physicist but a mystic.
Michio Kaku at its best
That is a really interesting question that I am definitely not qualified to answer sufficiently. I thought that at the quantum level, time acts differently (many worlds interpretation), but still exists? This being said, many physicians do seem to think that time is an illusion created by the human brain, but I haven't read up on it too much (just Google "does time exist"). We can be certain that what we see is not true reality, just how our brains interpret the data that reality gives us.
I'm still waiting (hopeing) to see Michio do a cameo on "The Big Bang Theory"! I mean, Steven Hawking was an awesome guest star, but Michio can actually "act" and lend some really awesome charactor/plot development, fun and knowledge to the show!!! *SPOILER ALERT RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!* I think Sheldon could use some advice from Michio right now... As they are both theoretical physicists!!!
"Theoretical Physicist" fancy name for Professional Guesser
Moreover, it is true that some people will choose to be ignorant if it's blissful. But do recognize that there are people who just want a higher understanding before coming to a conclusion. So you might deem your understanding sufficient for a conclusion, but your fellow man may desire a higher understanding or a different perspective before coming to a conclusion and labeling the things he experienced.
How big is this ship?
Technically, I wouldn't necessarily call the universe objective, because everyone has different perceptions and the universe begins and ends in our own minds.
IS THIS A DOCUMENTARY OR A CONCERT?
Actually I think doing that would, rather than convert everyone into a single religion, either do nothing at all or (if we're really lucky) bring everyone out of all religion and into the world of logic and science, and one big step closer to a Type 1 civilization.
Credits song?
@jojodi
3 жыл бұрын
It's the Grave from Mendellsohn's Sinfonia 9.
If you see these flashes of light everyday, because you do a lot of spectroscopy, it becomes boring.
Are you sure the fireworks were boring? I don't find beautiful things boring, when I understand them to a great extend.
How can you explain the existence of gold, diamonds, precious metals ect, if the temperature of the "big bang" was 10^13 last time i checked, which equals to a gigantic number. Anything put under that type of temperature will be destroyed.
here is a question out of curiosity, can Big Thinkers confirm or deny the existence of the Infamous Planet X?
Вся психология заключается в фундаментальной физике любви. Любовь подобна Лучу Солнца который содержит в себе цвет радуги! Любовь это мысль Любовь это слово. Если ты наделишь мыслю Любви предмет то ты испытаешь жадность как только кто-то захочет взять его! Если ты наделишь Любовью Человека и скажешь я люблю когда она рядом я люблю ее улыбку, ты испытаешь чувство ревности когда ее не будет рядом, ты испытаешь ревность когда она будет улыбаться поскольку не ты стал ее причиной. Из этого следует что после наделения мыслью предмет или живое существо возникают чувство соответствующие ранее наделенной мысли. Тоись) сознание человека состоит из отработаных мыслей в прошлом.
That depends whether what's happening is interesting or not.
@LeKayProducts Something tells me you didn't watch the video to know what i was referencing.
Is it difficult to get a job as a physicist? practical or theoretycal
Curiosity, it saves! ;)
Not if I find it first...
@atroxanimi77 So very true.
Wish all Christians, Muslims, Jews, ect. believed as you do!!!
I also happen to be a chemist; don't you think millions and billions of atoms reacting with one another with the addition of energy is beautiful in its own right?
The whole psychology lies in the fundamental physics of love. Love is like the Ray of the Sun which contains the colors of the rainbow! Love is a thought Love this word. If you give think Love is something you feel the greed as soon as someone wants to take it! If you give Love and say I love when she's around I love her smile, you will feel jealous when she's not around, you will experience jealousy when she will smile not because you caused it. From this it follows that after giving a thought object, or living being arise, the sense corresponding to the previously endowed with thought. Tois) human consciousness consists of flue thoughts in the past.
"Even String Theory has a hard time because you have to sort of put it in by hand, but we want the theory to naturally come out with this overabundance of matter over antimatter." kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKaMqciEZazForg.html "String Theory has no arbitrary parameters. You can't tweak it; you can't modify it. Therefore, if you solve it, it's either the entire universe, or it's nothing at all." kzread.info/dash/bejne/oIaslbyFlcnAgLw.htmlm53s