It's not possible to replicate your entire contingent, historical path from birth to where you are at that moment when you're now on mars as an avatar. But every year we get better and better at it. And you no, give it a million years, it'll be accentonically identical to who you are. So the digitize u will not really be the biological u. The biological u will decay. Entrope will take over. You'll you come down with alzeimers cancer or what have you. Silica does not have a speed limit. It just keeps on going.
Synthesizing relativity and quantum theory would be the crowning achievement of science, a profound merging of all the forces of nature into one beautiful, magnificent equation to unlock the deepest mysteries in science. In this episode, Michael Shermer speaks with professor of theoretical physics Michio Kaku about: the Big Bang, black holes, worm holes, the multiverse, time travel, dark energy and dark matter, gravity, string theory, ETIs, meaning, and God.