"But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."
- Albert Einstein
Michio Kaku is the understood mind, and (due to popularity) face of theoretical physics. He believes we are not to far away from grasping ground breaking ideas such as invisibility and time travel, in matter of fact only a couple centuries he predicts.
Through elegant yet simply put scientific examples Michio enables the average reader to understand the exploration in one of today's most complex fields of science, Physics.
Michio is greatly influenced by the knowledge of Albert Einstein, and the abstract ideas that films such as Back To the Future conveyed. Michio since childhood is always reaching for the higher shelf of understanding with hand and mind, but once he reaches to far its smacked down by the inevitable laws physics.
Michio presents an interesting idea, the goal for all of science is to fuse together all knowledge and truly grasp the world as a whole. To discover and prove the mathematical equation that gives us our universe, and existence would take our understanding of the universe to a supreme level beyond anything understood in human history. Many scientists have attempted to scratch the itch created by questions of the universe's understanding but most times leads to driving them mad in a personal fury to answer questions meant for god. Could this be tapping into what great philosophers such as Kant, Hume, and Locke wrote about when discussing the concrete connection found between experience and knowledge?
In conclusion we are bound to know what we experience day to day, but can we learn from such experiences formed in a lab about worm holes and parallel universes? No, to me it seems a proper perspective is needed to understand more, a perspective we do not hold as humans but gods.
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