Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension by Michio Kaku, Robert O'Keefe (Illustrator)

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  • Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
  • Pub. Date: February 1995
  • ISBN-13: 9780385477055
  • Sales Rank: 11,459
  • 359pp
 
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The first book-length exploration of the most exciting development in modern physics, the theory of 10-dimensional space. The theory of hyperspace, which Michio Kaku pioneered, may be the leading candidate for the Theory of Everything that Einstein spent the remaining years of his life searching for.

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Kaku, a physicist, paints a vivid portrait of the groundbreaking theory of hyperspace and its newest wrinkle--superstring theory.

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Since ingesting Einstein's relativity theory 50 years ago, physics fell down a quantum rabbit hole and, ever since, physicists' reports to the world of popular science have been curiouser and curiouser. This version, from the author of the graduate text Quantum Field Theory , is very curious as he delineates the ``delicious contradictions'' of the quantum revolution: that the new paradigms of subatomic matter require the existence of ``hyperspace,'' an ultimate universe of many dimensions, to accomodate their mostly mathematical behaviors. Unified field theory as it is currently understood does not preclude any of the hypotheses that Kaku invites to this Mad Hatter's Theory Party: superstrings, parallel universes and, his centerpiece, time travel. Although occasionally facile, Kaku remains on solid theoretical ground up to the point of his untestable hypotheses, which lead to his more abstract arguments. In the past decade particle physics has lurched to astonishing contradictions and Kaku's adventurous, tantalizing book should not be penalized for promising more than present technology can test. His intellectual perceptions will thrill lay readers, SF fans and the physics-literate. Illustrations. (Apr.)

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Michio Kaku is Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of the City University of New York. He graduated from Harvard and received his Ph.D. from Berkeley. He is author of Beyond Einstein (with Jennifer Trainer), Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction, and Introduction to Superstrings. He has also hosted a weekly hour-long science program on radio for the past ten years.

City College of the City University of New York

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Even in 2007, it's still amazingby Anonymous

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July 24, 2007: This book has truly fueled my interests in physics even further. Even though this book is over a decade old, it poses many ideas and theories that are still pondered today. I would say this should be a classic book, and anyone interested in physics or is just looking for some enlightening reading should pick this book up. I have never been so absorbed in a physics book before. It's an outstanding piece that explains intricate theories and their histories very eloquently.

Absolutely Awesomeby Anonymous

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July 30, 2000: I read this book for the first time as a high school freshman. I loved it then, and I love it now, as I go into my senior year. I had had no official physics classes at the time, and this book did nothing but spark my curiosity for further study into higher dimensions and theoretcial physics. The 'Baby Jane' paradox is still as fascinating to me as it was three, almost four, years ago. I've been wanting to add this book to my library since I first caught wind of it due to its thought provoking, informative, and well written content, but am just now getting the chance. This is a great book for intellectuals or just the curious.


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