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This week Adam is in New York City to meet a theoretical physicist who’s one of the world’s great communicators and popularisers of science. Dr. Michio Kaku has written books about hyperspace, parallel worlds, Einstein’s theories and future technologies and he’s presented and appeared in many TV science documentaries, including series like Time, Visions of the Future and Horizon.

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Michio Kaku decided to become a theoretical physicist at the age of eight after seeing press coverage about the death of Albert Einstein. When he was a teenager he built a particle accelerator in his parents’ garage for a school science fair and this brought him to the attention of the physicist Edward Teller, creator of the hydrogen bomb. Michio is one of the founders of string theory, still the main contender for a ‘theory of everything’ in physics.

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Adam meets him at the City University of New York where he’s the Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics. In a wide-ranging conversation they discuss science fiction, the physics of the 'impossible', the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role of the imagination in science.Ìý

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Further Reading

'Physics of the Future' by Michio Kaku. 416pp. Published by Penguin

'Physics of the Impossible' by Michio Kaku. 352pp. Published by Anchor Books

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