Michio Kaku: The Truth About UFOs, Aliens & Human Immortality
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What is string theory and how does it explain the universe?
The universe started with the vibrations of a tidy string, an explosion took place, which gave us the universe as we know it. I work on string theory, which we think is the ultimate theory of the universe.
Michio Kaku is a world-renowned theoretical physicist and futurist trying to solve the ultimate mystery in physics, the theory of everything. What do you believe is going to happen in the next 10 years that most scientists would still be uncomfortable saying publicly?
There's some tantalizing clues that it may be possible to delay the aging process. There is a clock, a clock in every cell of our body. After sixty reproductions, the cell stops and simply withers away. That's why you die of old age. But there is a way to stop the clock. However, there's a problem. Cancer can also stop the clock.
Donald Trump released the classified UFO files. Do you think we're alone in the universe?
Well, I've spent hours looking at those tapes. 95% of these sightings of flying saucers can be shown to be weatherman anomalies, but 5% cannot. And we don't know what the 5% represent.
What do you think is the purpose of it?
We have all sorts of theories about reality. We don't know whether the word purpose has any meaning in a universe this large.
What what do you mean by purpose has no meaning?
Well
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Now let's get into today's episode. Michio, you have spent your life trying to understand the deepest laws of the universe. After seventy years of doing this, what do you think that we misunderstand about reality?
Well, sometimes what you see is not what you get. What you see is actually a fiction. It's basically your brain homogenizing impulses that come in through the eyeball. And your brain basically makes a guess. A guess as to color, shape, form, so on and so forth. However, I'm a physicist. We believe that is it is possible to have an objective viewpoint of reality. And that reality, we think, started over thirteen billion years ago with the Big Bang. And out of the Big Bang came, we think, string theory. And string theory is what then created all the different atoms that we see around us today. And that's what I do for a living. I work on string theory, which we think is the theory of everything. The equation that allowed us to create the universe and to understand its magnificence.
Okay, so
There there is a lot there. But l let's go to the the theory of everything. What what is the theory of everything?
The theory of everything is a unifying principle by which you can explain everything around us in the universe. People like Aristotle, thousands of years ago, thought that maybe four elements could describe the entire universe, like water, like uh the oceans, the air, so on and so forth. Well then a few thousand years later we have chemistry. And chemistry says that no, maybe we have the elements, a hundred or so elements that give us the atoms of the universe today. Well today we have the standard model A standard model with Higgs bosons, with electrons, with neutrinos and so on and so forth. And we think, well, maybe that's a candidate with a theory of everything. But no That's not right, because gravity is missing in the standard model of elementary particles.
And who can talk about a a universe? Uh without gravity. Gravity holds us all together. But the standard model of elementary particles does not include cat. Therefore it's incomplete. Now today The only theory now that doesn't mean it's correct but the only theory that can summarize all the matter and energy of the universe is something called string theory. We think that if you could see in the middle of a proton, you would not see a dot at all.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is string theory and how does it explain the universe?
0:00–6:20
2
Why does Michio Kaku believe extraterrestrial life almost certainly exists?
6:20–12:55
3
What do the newly released UFO files reveal about possible alien encounters?
12:55–18:46
4
How could quantum computers threaten current digital security and banking?
18:46–24:23
5
Is it possible to stop aging or achieve human immortality?
24:23–29:56
6
What is the multiverse theory and why is it gaining popularity?
29:56–35:16
7
What scientific breakthroughs does Kaku predict in the next ten years?
35:16–41:25
8
Does the universe have a purpose, or is it just random chance?
41:25–46:30
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