Michio Kaku brings us yet another mind blowing book from the depths of physics. He manages to cover a wide range of cosmological concepts that exist in modern physics from parallel worlds to black holes and time travel. Kaku manages to make complicated ideas seem simple and can explain them easily and clearly with the use of great analogies, allowing any layman to experience these mind opening ideas. Continue Reading
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If you are interested in physics from the realm of science fiction from teleportation to invisibility then this is the book for you. Michio Kaku explores a wide range of ideas that according to our current understanding of physics seem impossible, however, according to Kaku they are not, atleast not acording to the usual definition of impossible. Kaku redefines the word “impossible,” form unable to happen to unable to happen yet. He organises these concepts into three classes of impossibility:
This book follows the story of the Higgs Boson, aka “the God particle.” The book follows the physicists, most notably Peter Higgs who were responsible for the theory that is the Higgs mechanism, a now important piece of the Standard Model. However, he is not the only person responsible for the creation of the Higgs mechanism, he even said himself “Contrary to the custom of this conference, I want to first of all to disclaim priority for some of the conceptts to which my name commonly attached to in literature.” He even went on to suggest that the Higgs mechanism should be renamed the “ABEGHHK’tH mechanism” after all the people (Anderson, Brout, Englert, Guralnik, Hagen, Higgs, Kibble and ‘t Hooft) who either discovered this or rediscovered it. Continue Reading