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Already Thoroughly Familiar To The Seasoned Science Fiction Fan, Hyperspace Is That Realm Which Enables A Spaceship Captain To Take His Ship On A Physics-defying Shortcut (or Wormhole) To The Outer Shores Of The Galaxy In Less Time Than It Takes A 747 To Fly From New York To Tokyo. But In The Past Few Years, Physicists On The Cutting Edge Of Science Have Found That A 10-dimensional Hyperspace May Actually Exist, Albeit At A Scale Almost Too Small To Comprehend, Smaller Even Than A Quark; And That In Spite Of Its Tiny Size, It May Be The Basis On Which All The Forces Of Nature Will Be United. This Is The First Book For A General Audience On One Of The Latest, Most Exciting Developments In Modern Science. In The Past Several Years, Theoretical Physicists—the Author Among Them—have Discovered That The Universe Exists Not Merely In The Four Spacetime Dimensions (3 Of Space + One Of Time) With Which Einstein Made Us Familiar, But Rather As A Ten-dimensional Hyperspace. Once The Domain Of The Science Fiction Writer Or The Occultist, Hyperspace Has Recently Been Shown To Be The Only Kind Of Space In Which The Laws Of Modern Physics Can Be Satisfactorily Explained. Amazingly Enough, Many Of The Phenomena Whose Explanations Have Stymied 20th Century Physicists And Cosmologists Can Now Be Perfectly Clarified By Using The Ten Dimensions Of Hyperspace. Most Importantly, Einstein's Unfulfilled Dream, The Work On Which He Spent The Last Several Decades Of His Life In Vain—the Unification Of All The Forces Of Nature—now Sits Waiting On The Ten-dimensional Doorstep Of Modern Theoretical Physicists. Michio Kaku—theoretical High-energy Physicist, Author, Radio Talkshow Host, And Nuclear Disarmament Activist—is One Of The Pioneers In The Field Of String Theory, Which States That The Basic Constituents Of Our Universe Are Not Quarks Or Protons Or Electrons, But Much Smaller Entities Called Strings Or Superstrings, Which Vibrate—like Violin Strings—in 10 Dimensional Hyperspace, And Whos
This book investigates whether the universe exists in ten dimensions and if this framework provides the key to unifying all fundamental forces of nature. Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist and pioneer in string theory, draws upon his professional expertise to explain complex concepts for a general audience. He argues that the limitations of four-dimensional spacetime can be overcome by adopting a ten-dimensional model, which potentially resolves long-standing inconsistencies in modern physics.
What You Will Find
Scope Limits
Experts and readers alike recognize this work as a highly accessible entry point into the complex world of string theory and multidimensional physics. While some readers note the ambitious scope of the concepts, the text is widely regarded as a successful bridge between academic theoretical physics and popular science literature.
Page Count:
384
Publication Date:
1995-01-01
Publisher:
Oup Oxford
ISBN-10:
0191037109
ISBN-13:
9780191037108
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