Are You a Deer?

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If you're a deer, who do you fear the most? The hunter. So this would counter young hawkings concern that we should not be messaging aliens because they may enslave us. And if you read h g Wells for worlds, the aliens of mars did not hate humans. They didn't want to mate with us. No, we just were in the way. I think that is a danger, if they're that advanced, we may be in the way, and that's something to fear.

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.