When i was a child, i used to visualize when an alien on the other side of the milkyway galaxy, what they would be doing her. And then i realized that physics really is different. It's not just an ordinary discipline that you have to plough through in school. No, it's the language of the universe. They would have a whole new way of looking at the universe. Would have no understanding of what trials and tribulations elizabethan england was going through,. Maybe wouldn't even care that.
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.