"My own fascination with higher dimensions began early in childhood. One of my happiest childhood memories was crouching next to the pond at the famed Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco, mesmerized by the brilliantly colored carp swimming slowly beneath the water lilies. In these quiet moments, I would ask myself a silly question that a only child might ask: how would the carp in that pond view the world around them? Spending their entire lives at the bottom of the pond, the carp would believe that their "universe" consisted of the water and the lilies; they would only be dimly aware that an alien world could exist just above the surface. My world was beyond their comprehension. I was intrigued that I could sit only a few inches from the carp, yet we were separated by an immense chasm. I concluded that if there were any "scientists" among the carp, they would scoff at any fish who proposed that a parallel world could exist just above the lilies. An unseen world beyond the pond made no scientific sense. Once I imagined what would happen if I reached down and suddenly grabbed one of the carp "scientists" out of the pond. I wondered, how would this appear to the carp? The startled carp "scientist" would tell a truly amazing story, being somehow lifted out of the universe (the pond) and hurled into a mysterious nether world, another dimension with blinding lights and strange-shaped objects that no carp had ever seen before. The strangest of all was the massive creature responsible for this outrage, who did not resemble a fish in the slightest. Shockingly, it had no fins whatsoever, but nevertheless could move without them. Obviously, the familiar laws of physics no longer applied in this nether world!"

Ett citat från hans artikel Hyperspace - A Scienstific Odyssey, på hans hemsida som är som är en guldgruva av härliga artiklar.

Michio Kaku Är mycket bra på att förklara saker så att vanliga "Svensson" kan förstå. Härliga jämförelser med vardagliga ting genomsyrar hans program och artiklar. Det mest fshinerande med Michio Kaku är hans förmåga att kunna konstruera saker som teleporter, ljussvärd, energisköldar till rymdskepp m m, och få dem att fungera rent teoretiskt. Dagens teknik räcker inte riktigt till för att göra dem genomförbara i verkligheten, men kanske i framtiden.

Är Michio Kaku vår tids Leonardo Da Vinci?

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Fotnot: I Youtubeklippet är det ingen mindre än Will Wheaton (Wesley Crusher - Star Trek Next Generation) som intervjuar.