Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2021-05-20
Books mentioned on Black Holes, Big Bangs & Quantum Theory - Michio Kaku - #323
Michio Kaku is the Professor of Theoretical Physics in the City College of New York, a futurist and an author. What happened before the big bang?
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Flatland
Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott is a classic nineteenth-century novella that uses a satirical two-dimensional world to explore higher spatial dimensions and societal norms.
Discussed“the original flatland book when i read that i really really enjoyed it it feels a little bit like plato's allegory of the cave you know where you have the heretics you have this unknown banished insight about the world that's not supposed to be it's not supposed to be seen”
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The God Equation
The God Equation by Michio Kaku explores physicists' ongoing quest for a unified theory of everything that combines general relativity and quantum mechanics.
Recommended“michio kaku ladies and gentlemen the god equation a quest for a theory of everything will be linked in the show notes below”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The God Equation
“so your new book got equation one of the craziest things that i learned was a single sentence in there”