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The lesson here is that it is very dangerous to bet against the future.
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Terraforming Mars is a primary goal for the twenty-second century. But scientists are looking beyond Mars as well. The most exciting prospects may be the moons of the gas giants, including Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and Titan, a moon of Saturn. The moons of gas giants were once thought to be barren hunks of rock that were all alike, but they are now seen as unique wonderlands, each with its own array of geysers, oceans, canyons, and atmosph..
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Michio Kaku |
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In 1994 another bombshell was dropped. Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study and Paul Townsend of Cambridge University speculated that all five string theories were in fact the same theory-but only if we add an eleventh dimension. From the vantage point of the eleventh dimension, all five different theories collapsed into one! The theory was unique after all, but only if we ascended to the mountaintop of the eleventh dim..
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Michio Kaku |
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To me it is truly remarkable that on a single sheet of paper one can write down the laws that govern all known physical phenomena, covering forty-three orders of magnitude, from the farthest reaches of the cosmos over 10 billion light-years away to the microworld of quarks and neutrinos. On that sheet of paper would be just two equations, Einstein's theory of gravity and the Standard Model. To me this reveals the ultimate simplicity and har..
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Michio Kaku |
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So the scale law rules out the familiar idea of worlds-within-worlds found in science fiction, that is, the idea that inside the atom there could be an entire universe, or that our galaxy could be an atom in a much larger universe.
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Michio Kaku |
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This was the missing piece in the puzzle. The secret of wood that bound matter together was the Yang-Mills filed, not the geometry of Einstein. It appeared as though this, and not geometry, was the central lesson of physics.
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Michio Kaku |
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Graphene consists of a single molecular layer of carbon atoms tightly bonded to form an ultra-thin, ultra-durable sheet. It is almost transparent and weighs practically nothing, yet is the toughest material known to science--two hundred times stronger than steel and stronger even than diamonds. In principle, you could balance an elephant on a pencil and then place the pencil point on a sheet of graphene without breaking or tearing it. As a ..
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Michio Kaku |
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Kip Thorne says, "By 2020, physicists will understand the laws of quantum gravity, which will be found to be a variant of string theory."
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Michio Kaku |
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There is an old saying: "If appearance and essence were the same thing, there would be no need for science"
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Michio Kaku |
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Introducing higher dimensions may be essential for prying loose the secrets of Creation. According to this theory, before the Big Bang, our cosmos was actually a perfect ten-dimensional universe, a world where interdimensional travel was possible. However, this ten-dimensional world was unstable, and eventually it "cracked" in two, creating two separate universes: a four-and a six dimensional universe. The universe in which we live was born..
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Michio Kaku |
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Telling a lie causes more centres of the brain to light up than telling the truth. Telling a lie implies that you know the truth but are thinking of the lie and its myriad consequences, which requires more energy than telling the truth.
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Michio Kaku |
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Normally communication between these universes is impossible. The atoms of our body are like flies trapped on flypaper. We can move freely about in three dimensions along our membrane universe, but we cannot leap off the universe into hyperspace, because we are glued onto our universe. But gravity, being the warping of space-time, can freely float into the space between universes.
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Michio Kaku |
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Why go to the stars? Because we are the descendants of those primates who chose to look over the next hill. Because we won't survive here indefinitely. Because the stars are there, beckoning with fresh horizons. --JAMES AND GREGORY BENFORD
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Michio Kaku |
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A stable wormhole is therefore a balancing act, and the key is to maintain the right mixture of positive and negative energy. You need lots of positive energy to naturally create the gateway between universes, as with a black hole. But you also need to create negative matter or energy artificially to keep the gateway open and prevent a collapse.
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Michio Kaku |
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Today biologists believe that during the "Cambrian explosion," about half a billion years ago, nature experimented with a vast array of shapes and forms for tiny, emerging multicellular creatures. Some had spinal cords shaped like an X, Y, or Z. Some had radial symmetry like a starfish. By accident one had a spinal cord shaped like an I, with bilateral symmetry, and it was the ancestor of most mammals on Earth. So in principle the humanoid ..
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Michio Kaku |
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In sum, the fruition of 50 years of research, and several hundred million dollars in government funds, has given us the following picture of sub-atomic matter. All matter consists of quarks and leptons, which interact by exchanging different types of quanta, described by the Maxwell and Yang-Mills fields. In one sentence, we have captured the essence of the past century of frustrating investigation into the subatomic realm, From this simple..
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Michio Kaku |
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If we look at the rise of our own civilization over the past 100,000 years, since modern humans emerged in Africa, it can be seen as the story of rising energy consumption.
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Michio Kaku |
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During the eleven-year sunspot cycle, for example, solar flares can send enormous quantities of deadly plasma racing toward Earth. In the past, this phenomenon has forced the astronauts on the space station to seek special protection against the potentially lethal barrage of subatomic particles.
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Michio Kaku |
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The fruit fly has roughly 150,000 neurons in the brain.
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Michio Kaku |
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Los dos mayores misterios de la naturaleza son la mente y el universo.
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Michio Kaku |
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Fifth is Q, the amplitude of the irregularities in the cosmic microwave background, which equals 10
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Michio Kaku |
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are skilled in the techniques necessary to neutralize any rogue robot.
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Michio Kaku |
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starting with mice, cats, and going up the evolutionary scale of animals.
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Michio Kaku |
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Number 1: I calls 'em like I see 'em. Number 2: I calls 'em the way they are. Number 3: They ain't nothing till I calls
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Michio Kaku |
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phrenologists
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Michio Kaku |
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Einstein's Cosmos,
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Michio Kaku |
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The most complex object in the known universe, brain, only uses 20 watts of power.
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Michio Kaku |
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to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
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Michio Kaku |
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Olaf Stapledon's classic work of science fiction, Star Maker:
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Michio Kaku |
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why doesn't the universe spin?
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Michio Kaku |
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Animals cannot speak and understand English
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Michio Kaku |
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Cualquier imagen tridimensional contiene una enorme cantidad de informacion: un monton de veces la informacion almacenada en una imagen bidimensional.
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Michio Kaku |
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train wreck
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Michio Kaku |
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el hito siguiente en la historia de la IA: aplicar una ingenieria inversa al cerebro humano.
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Michio Kaku |
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Algunos estan gobernados por lideres incompetentes, se encuentran fragmentados cultural y etnicamente hasta el punto de llegar a la disfuncion, y no producen los bienes que el resto del mundo desea adquirir. En vez de invertir en educacion, invierten en grandes ejercitos y armas para aterrorizar a su pueblo y mantener sus privilegios. En lugar de invertir en infraestructuras para acelerar la industrializacion de su pais, caen en la corrupci..
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Michio Kaku |
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El reconocimiento de patrones, como ya hemos visto, es uno de los principales obstaculos para la inteligencia artificial.
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Michio Kaku |
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starships of the future may have to spin, creating an artificial gravity via centrifugal forces in order to sustain human life.
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Michio Kaku |
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Michio Kaku |
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La unica prediccion importante que no se ha cumplido es la clonacion humana.
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Michio Kaku |
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si un gato puede comerse un raton en un minuto, ?cuanto tiempo tardan un millon de gatos en comerse un millon de ratones? Respuesta: un minuto.)
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Michio Kaku |
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Alrededor de 2020, o poco despues, la ley de Moore dejara gradualmente de ser valida, y es posible que Silicon Valley se convierta poco a poco en un simple cinturon industrial, salvo que se encuentre una tecnologia sustitutiva. Segun las leyes de la fisica, la era del silicio llegara a su fin a medida que entremos en la era postsilicio. Los transistores seran tan pequenos que la teoria cuantica o la fisica atomica tomaran el relevo, y los e..
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Michio Kaku |
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cuando se produce un conflicto entre la tecnologia moderna y los deseos de nuestros primitivos antepasados, los deseos primitivos siempre ganan. Este es el Principio del Hombre de las Cavernas.
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Michio Kaku |
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Todo individuo considera que los limites de su propia vision son los limites del mundo. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
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Michio Kaku |
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The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits. --G. K. Chesterson W
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