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Physics of the Future - by Michio Kaku
One of the very first theoretical science books I read was Michio Kaku's Hyperspace. I found
it to be mind-expanding and I carried forward the ideas I had learned there for many years, enjoying
sharing the concepts with people and springboarding into further scientific reading. I've watched
as Kaku has grown his likable personality and everyman approach to hard science into quite the
media empire, and if he wants to be the modern day Carl Sagan (after the requisite Death Match
with Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson) then I say - good for him.
It is perhaps due to this long standing association with him and his work that I found the book
to be a bit ponderous and disingenuous. He as much as admits in the introduction that his publisher
asked him to write this text, which is very similar to one he wrote previously, and basically sets down
on paper his experiences on his various TV shows. Numerous passages repeat the same ideas and nearly
the same text, and it quickly feels that it has been drawn out far beyond the length it would have
naturally assumed.
I don't mean to detract from his work or his enthusiasm, both of which I firmly believe in and enjoy. I just
felt that he sort of phoned this one in, and basically admitted that. I know he can do better, and I hope
he was just paying some bills with this book, while his real work will be revealed in the fullness of time.
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