When i was eight years old, the newspapers announced that a great scientist had just died. And they printed a picture of his desk with an empty book on the desk. The captain said that the greatest scientist of our time could not finish this book. Well, i was fascinated by that story. I had to learn everything about this man, everything about this theory. Now i am proud to say that i actually work in this field professionally. We think but cannot yet prove is this fabled theory which alluded einstein for the last 30 years of his life. This theory is based on music, the music of sub atomic particles. So why do we have so many sub atomic particles like electrons and
This week on the penguin podcast, Nihal Arthanayake is joined by theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science, Michio Kaku. Together they discuss string theory, the unifying threads of different religious beliefs, human curiosity and the barriers to scientific thinking.
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