Name: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos
Author: Michio Kaku
ISBN: 9780307276988

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KAKU, Michio

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

2005

1. Science and Tech

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Michio Kaku Parallel Worlds Overview Michio Kaku’s Parallel Worlds is a book about cosmology written at a moment when cosmology had just stopped being embarrassing. Its opening chapters are frank about the discipline’s reputation: as a Harvard undergraduate in the late 1960s Kaku considered the field and found it “embarrassingly primitive”, “not an experimental science at all, where one can test hypotheses with precise instruments, but rather a collection of loose, highly speculative theories”, and he repeats with relish Lev Landau’s line that “cosmologists are often in error but never…

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Accession:FL-0116

ISBN-13:9780307276988

Published:2005

Language:en

Shelved under:Science and Tech

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