By Michio Kaku
ISBN-10: 0385509863
ISBN-13: 9780385509862
Is our universe demise?
Could there be different universes?
In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling writer Michio Kaku—an author who “has a knack for bringing the main airy rules right down to earth” (Wall road Journal)—takes readers on a desirable travel of cosmology, M-theory, and its implications for the destiny of the universe.
In his first publication of physics because Hyperspace, Michio Kaku starts by way of describing the extreme advances that experience remodeled cosmology during the last century, and especially over the past decade, forcing scientists all over the world to reconsider our figuring out of the beginning of the universe, and its final destiny. In Dr. Kaku’s eyes, we live in a golden age of physics, as new discoveries from the WMAP and COBE satellites and the Hubble house telescope have given us unheard of photographs of our universe in its infancy.
As astronomers plow through the avalanche of knowledge from the WMAP satellite tv for pc, a brand new cosmological photo is rising. up to now, the prime conception in regards to the delivery of the universe is the “inflationary universe theory,” an important refinement at the massive bang conception. during this concept, our universe will be yet one in a multiverse, floating like a bubble in an unlimited sea of bubble universes, with new universes being created forever. A parallel universe may possibly hover an insignificant millimeter from our personal.
The very notion of parallel universes and the string idea that could clarify their lifestyles was considered with suspicion by means of scientists, obvious because the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. yet at the present time, physicists overwhelmingly aid string-theory, and its most up-to-date new release, M-theory, because it is that this one conception that, if confirmed right, might reconcile the 4 forces of the universe easily and skillfully, and resolution the query “What occurred prior to the massive bang?”
Already, Kaku explains, the world’s most well known physicists and astronomers are trying to find how you can try the idea of the multiverse utilizing hugely subtle wave detectors, gravity lenses, satellites, and telescopes. the consequences of M-theory are interesting and never-ending. If parallel worlds do exist, Kaku speculates, in time, maybe a thousand billion years or extra from now, as looks most likely, while our universe grows chilly and darkish in what scientists describe as a huge freeze, complex civilizations might have the opportunity to flee our universe in a type of “inter-dimensional lifeboat.”
An unforgettable trip into black holes and time machines, trade universes, and multidimensional house, Parallel Worlds gives us a compelling portrait of the revolution sweeping the area of cosmology.
