Michio Kaku

[underdog]

So Kaku was talked about on Ron and Fez last week and today is on Opie and Anthony.

What the fuck is going on? I'm afraid. I love this guy and I love his books. But it feels like I'm on Earth 2.

[LaBoob]

He has been everywhere lately. He's great though...

I'm a big fan of smart gentlemen.

[underdog]

He has been everywhere lately. He's great though...

I'm a big fan of smart gentlemen.

I love his books because he's really good at dumbing stuff down, but still being brilliant. He's not like a lot of other brilliant people who just constantly talk over other people's heads.

[LaBoob]

Yeah, I'm listening right now and he really makes a lot of sense, and has a way of explaining these really complicated concepts in a way that's really relatable.

I will absolutely get his new book.

Incidentally, the driving through the country and seeing an ant-hill metaphor is brilliant.

[LaBoob]

Good for Ant for "keeping up" with the genius in the room... but it would've been awesome to have Michio Kaku in the same room as Ronnie and Mike the Teacher!

[Furtherman]

His books are great and I'm really enjoying this interview. I'm glad Opie has remained civil, so far.

[LaBoob]

Damnit! I want to live forever as a cyborg with the power of a superhero!!!

[Furtherman]

Well at least Opie waited until XM to spill is ignorance.

[JPMNICK]

i saw him speak at a physics conference when I was in college. Although he is a brilliant guy, a lot of other physics in the scientific community almost look down on him as well as Brian Greene for always being on TV and gaining an almost celebrity status.

[TheGameHHH]

i saw him speak at a physics conference when I was in college. Although he is a brilliant guy, a lot of other physics in the scientific community almost look down on him as well as Brian Greene for always being on TV and gaining an almost celebrity status.

Scientists and Historians do this all the time. The second somebody gets on television it's as if their opinions are no longer valid, its fucking stupid on so many levels.

[LaBoob]

If I were someone like Kaku, I would be so afraid that in 100 years someone else would prove me not only wrong, but so wrong it would make me look like a cave-man...I couldn't help but admire his confidence in his theories.

[Furtherman]

i saw him speak at a physics conference when I was in college. Although he is a brilliant guy, a lot of other physics in the scientific community almost look down on him as well as Brian Greene for always being on TV and gaining an almost celebrity status.

Scientists and Historians do this all the time. The second somebody gets on television it's as if their opinions are no longer valid, its fucking stupid on so many levels.

It's the snooty snob factor. They worked hard to get where they are at... why should they even bother with trying to explain this stuff to us?

That's why Kaku and Brian Green should be applauded. They make science interesting and easy to understand, and we NEED that in this country. We NEED it big time.

I saw Brian Greene at a lecture last year. There was no press and he never even plugged his books. We just talked about what we now know about the universe and took questions from the audience. Very personable and an all around nice guy. Even sent him an email asking when he'd be doing another lecture. He wrote back that he had nothing planned and thanked me for listening.

[sailor]

i prefer machu picchu.

http://www.rediscovermachupicchu.com/img-machu-picchu-view-05-l.jpg

[LaBoob]

i prefer machu picchu.

http://www.rediscovermachupicchu.com/img-machu-picchu-view-05-l.jpg

Beautiful! I just made that my desktop background.

[Mike Teacher]

So I'm away from XM units coz I'm going to see UnMasked and I get there and there's E-Rock checking out pics on him cam.

'Yo E-Rock checking out some new celebs pics?' I say and he turns the camera around...

Me: Whoa! Michio Kaku! When did you meet him?

ErocK: He was just on the show today.

I wanted to start beating my head against the bar. hard. Oh man I was so pissed at myself.

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Kaku et al get a lot of shit, from the science community, and others, for being famous. Scientists are human and get jealous too I guess.

Sagan caught tons of flack from the astronomy and science community when Cosmos came out; 'Whats this guy looking up at awe at the sky with arms outstretched with the weird nasal NY accent?' Many didnt know Sagan had walked the walk for decades, doing real science, real teaching, and had published hundreds of real scientific papers.

Kaku walks the walk like Greene too, but theyre gonna have to make science interesting for the masses, and that often means science speculation, and, well even the best scientists are really bad at predicting what things will be like in even 5 years, much less 50.

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Ugh cant believe I missed it. Bummer.

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Thank you Johnny Carson, by the way. He loved science, and had Sagan on dozens of times. We need another Sagan. Bad.

[Furtherman]

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.scifisquad.com/media/2009/11/6a00d8341bfc7553ef0120a6d746f7970b-500wi.jpg

Discovery Channel imprint the Science Channel will be airing a new program on Dec. 1 (10 pm EST) called Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible. Hosted by author of Physics of the Impossible and renowned physicist Dr. Michio Kaku, the show will go through popular science fiction and explore the reality of alternate universes, teleportation and the like. According to Variety's Brian Lowry, the premiere touches on a "Stargate-like portal" and the light-sabers of Star Wars.

The first three episodes (two of which air on Dec. 1, the third on Dec. 8) are titled How to Explore the Universe, How to Travel to a Parallel Universe and my personal favorite title, How to Blow Up a Planet.

[underdog]

Sweet. Set up my tivo.

I need new programs now that Time Warp is no longer on and everything else is ending. My tivo is barren.

[boosterp]

Dr. Steve ain't gonna be happy.

[underdog]

Dr. Steve ain't gonna be happy.

If Dr. Steve has a tv show, I'd watch that, too.