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Post by auntym on Aug 25, 2011 20:55:23 GMT -6
bigthink.com/ideas/38079 THE BIG THINK[/color] The Possible Discovery of the Higgs Will Shake the Foundations of PhysicsMichio Kaku on April 25, 2011, We are all aware that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most powerful machine on planet earth and not yet operating at its full capacity. Since 2008, scientists at the CERN physics lab have slowing been increasing the intensity of the particle beams, with each time seeming to break its previous record. It was but a few days ago that the LHC lit up the headlines once again for breaking a world record of beam intensity previously achieved by Fermi's Tevatron in Batavia, Ill. In 2010, the Fermi Tevatron set the record for a beam intensity of 4.024 x 1032cm-2s-1 and the LHC recently broke that record on April 22nd at around midnight Geneva time by reaching a luminosity of 4.67 x 1032cm-2s-1. As a result of these high energy collisions, billions of points of data are being crunched and is a tremendous success for the CERN physics lab. As the intensity of the beams is increased, the hopes of scientists around the world is also being increased. There are hopes that the machine will finally be able to shed a bit of light on the questions humans have been asking themselves for thousands of years, including the very secret of why we even have a universe to begin with. Also, we might finally be able to answer some of the bizarre questions usually reserved for philosophers and theologians such as the existence of parallel universes and if some of those allow for time travel. The two things you’ve probably been hearing about the most since the LHC had its first collision is the possibility for creating dark matter and the discovery for the elusive Higgs Boson (God Particle). With the thousands of subatomic particles that make up a jigsaw puzzle, it’s always had one missing piece in the center that we have yet been able to discover and that’s the Higgs Boson. Physics doesn't really have any answers to explain where mass comes from or why matter has mass in the first place. The discovery of it will not only complete the Standard Model as it exists today but will literally shake the very foundation of our understanding of the Universe we live in. CONTINUE READING: bigthink.com/ideas/38079
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Post by auntym on Sept 19, 2011 11:23:21 GMT -6
Michio Kaku On Aliens On Physics ...
Michio Kaku --"Are Humans Oblivious to the Technology of Advanced Alien Civilizations?"[/color]
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Post by auntym on Sept 30, 2011 18:48:25 GMT -6
bigthink.com/ideas/40441 THE BIG THINK[/color] Breaking the Speed of Light and Contemplating the Demise of Relativity Michio Kaku September 30, 2011 Einstein released many theories during his scientific career, but it was the publishing of his two theories of relativity that literally shook the foundations of physics. The theories proposed by him still stand today even though there are many individuals who have tried to challenge them. It started in 1905 with the publishing of his special theory of relativity and was later followed by the general theory of relativity in 1915 . Each of these theories are comprised of their own sets of equations, laws and principles that explain why things act the way that they do, from the largest of galaxies right now to the smallest of particles. Einstein was in his mid-20's when he published his special theory of relativity which become an absolutely essential tool for scientists, physicists, theorists and experimentalists around the world today. Some of the concepts that were introduced were time dilation, length contraction, and his famed theory of mass-energy equivalence with the introduction of E = mc2. One of his other concepts, and the subject of this blog entry, was Einstein's introduction of the cosmic speed limit which states that no physical object or information can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum. CONTINUE READING: bigthink.com/ideas/40441
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Post by auntym on Dec 29, 2011 16:39:59 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/michio-kaku-extraterrestrial-civilizations-of-the-cosmos.htmlDecember 29, 2011 Extraterrestrial Civilizations of the Cosmos (Holiday Feature)"What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque." Carl Sagan Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York believes that Sagan's question is no longer just a matter of idle speculation. Kaku writes that that "one day, many of us could gaze at the encyclopadia that contains the coordinates of perhaps hundreds of Earth-like planets in our sector of the galaxy. Then we will ponder with wonder, as Sagan did, what an intelligent civilization a millions years ahead of ours will look like." oon, humanity may face an existential shock as we discover Earth-sized twins of our planet orbiting nearby solar systems. This may usher in a new era in our relationship with the universe, so that we will never see the night sky in the same way. Realizing that scientists may eventually compile an encyclopedia identifying the precise coordinates of perhaps hundreds of Earth-like planets, gazing at the night sky, we will forever after wonder if someone is gazing back at us. Kaku takes up where some/one of the world's pioneer astronomers left off with a definition of civilizations in the universe that mimics the work of Russian astrophysicist Kardashev. Inspired at the age of five by a Moscow Planetariumshow about Giordano Bruno, Kardashev definined three levels of advanced civilizations based on how they harness energy to fuel their societies. All three categories of civilizations, even the most advanced Type 111, would still be bound by the laws of physics thatallow us to predict the behavior of the universe from the subatomic world to the large-scale structure of the universe, through a staggering 43 orders of magnitude (a factor of 10 million billion billion billion billion). Type 1 civilizations would have a technological level similar to ours at present, as measured by total energy consumption. Carl Sagan estimated that Earth qualifies as a Type 0.7 civilisation. Type 11 civilizations would be capable of harnessing the energy of their own star -constructing, for example, a Dyson Sphere. And Type 111 civilizations would be able to utilize energy on the scale of their own galaxies. Kardeschev and Kaku believe there is an extremely low probability of detecting Type 1 civilizations and suggests that type 11 or 111 civilizations would make better targets.Kardeschev calculated that the energy consumption of these three types of civilizations would be separated by a factor of about 10 billion. In 1963 Kardeschev searched for traces of the more advanced type 11 and 111 at the 920 MHz wavelength creating an uproar of excitement thinking he had discover signals from a Type 11 civilization that later proved to be an ordinary quasar with a large redshift. A similar uproar occurred in 1967 when regular signals were detected by radio telescopes at Cambridge, England, which turned out to be the first discovery of neutron stars. CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/12/michio-kaku-extraterrestrial-civilizations-of-the-cosmos.html Read Kaku's brilliant essay in its entirety at Cosmos Magazine. bit.ly/112oOg
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Post by auntym on Jan 24, 2012 11:38:12 GMT -6
Michio Kaku on The Holy Grail of Planetary Astronomy: The Search for Earth's Twin Uploaded by bigthink on Jan 20, 2012 bigthink.com/ideas/42000Dr. Kaku addresses the following question: A recently discovered planet named Kepler 22b apparently has a very, very similar composition to Earth, although I don't think they have it exactly figured out yet. What do discoveries like this mean and what is the possibility of many other earth-like planets being out there?
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Post by auntym on Feb 20, 2012 17:24:23 GMT -6
www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/02/michio-kaku-civilizations-of-the-cosmos.htmlMichio Kaku --"Civilizations of the Cosmos"February 20, 2012 "What does it mean for a civilization to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilization is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilization millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque." Carl Sagan Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at City University of New York, believes that Sagan's question is no longer just a matter of idle speculation.Soon, humanity may face an existential shock as we discover Earth-sized twins of our planet orbiting nearby solar systems. This may usher in a new era in our relationship with the universe, so that we will never see the night sky in the same way. Realizing that scientists may eventually compile an encyclopedia identifying the precise coordinates of perhaps hundreds of Earth-like planets, gazing at the night sky, we will forever after wonder if someone is gazing back at us. Kaku takes up where some/one of the world's pioneer astronomers left off with a definition of civilizations in the universe that mimics the work of Russian astrophysicist Kardashev. Inspired at the age of five by a Moscow Planetariumshow about Giordano Bruno, Kardashev definined three levels of advanced civilizations based on how they harness energy to fuel their societies. All three categories of civilizations, even the most advanced Type 111, would still be bound by the laws of physics thatallow us to predict the behavior of the universe from the subatomic world to the large-scale structure of the universe, through a staggering 43 orders of magnitude (a factor of 10 million billion billion billion billion). Type 1 civilizations would have a technological level similar to ours at present, as measured by total energy consumption. Carl Sagan estimated that Earth qualifies as a Type 0.7 civilisation.Type 11 civilizations would be capable of harnessing the energy of their own star -constructing, for example, a Dyson Sphere. And Type 111 civilizations would be able to utilize energy on the scale of their own galaxies. Kardeschev and Kaku believe there is an extremely low probability of detecting Type 1 civilizations and suggests that type 11 or 111 civilizations would make better targets.Kardeschev calculated that the energy consumption of these three types of civilizations would be separated by a factor of about 10 billion. CONTINUE READING: www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/02/michio-kaku-civilizations-of-the-cosmos.html
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Post by auntym on Aug 29, 2012 11:31:18 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Apr 24, 2013 15:07:07 GMT -6
Michio Kaku: UFOs Flying Saucers ET Civilizations Alien Contact NWO - GCF 2011
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Post by auntym on Oct 14, 2014 13:12:00 GMT -6
CALL ME AND ASK A QUESTION Dr. Michio Kaku ✔ @michiokaku Ask me a question on national radio. See mkaku.org , and Facebook/Michiokaku for a list of radio stations and times.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 14, 2014 23:41:46 GMT -6
I love his take on we humans thinking aliens would resemble or think like we do. Maybe to someone from a very different way of thinking would consider a smile..a baring of fangs...and not think as we do at all. Heck..no two humans think exactly alike..why would someone from different evolution..different culture..etc..think like we do? Maybe it's ego on our part or a way to make something seem more familiar therefore less of a threat. Thinking that way could have a very rude awakening.
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Post by skywalker on Oct 15, 2014 8:41:05 GMT -6
Maybe the reason human-looking aliens come here is because there are human-looking animals on this planet. Or maybe all life-sustaining planets eventually develop humanoid life-forms. I think we could assume that life on other planets will evolve basically the same as it does in similar environments here on Earth. It has to adapt to the same physical conditions that we had to adapt to so it could end up looking the same. That's what they call convergent evolution, where two entirely different types of creatures end up looking almost identical. It could happen.
I've also read a theory that the humanoid shape is the one best suited for building machines and developing technology which would allow space travel or inter-dimensional travel to be possible. That's a possibility also.
Or people could just be deluding themselves into thinking that any form of advanced ET life would look like the so-called "most advanced species of life on Earth"...which people assume is what humans are.
With the wide variety of species and life-forms that exist here on Earth there is really no telling what an alien species would look or think like. It may look like something we have never even imagined before...like a giant melted marshmallow or something.
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Post by auntym on Nov 11, 2015 16:29:24 GMT -6
observer.com/2015/11/dr-michio-kaku-on-why-aliens-may-exist-but-arent-landing-on-the-white-house-lawn/ Dr. Michio Kaku on Why Aliens May Exist, But Aren’t Landing on the White House LawnOne of the most renowned figures in science discusses extraterrestrial life, artificial intelligence, and the future of computer technologyBy Michael Sainato / observer.com/author/michael-sainato/ 11/04/15 A bizarre space anomaly detected by the Kepler Spacecraft has caught the attention of SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence). The institute recently pointed the Allen Telescope Array system 300 miles northeast of San Francisco at the star, KIC 8462852, to test the hypothesis that the anomaly may be a signature of an extraterrestrial civilization. “If this pans out it could be the biggest story since the invention of the wheel or the discovery of fire—it’s on that scale,” said Dr. Michio Kaku in a phone interview with the Observer. Dr. Kaku is a professor of physics at City College of New York (CUNY), where he holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics. One of the most renowned figures in science today, Dr. Kaku co-founded the String Field Theory, has authored several New York Times best-selling books, and continues Albert Einstein’s pursuit in formulating a theory on everything. We are arrogant to think that we are so interesting, extraterrestrial beings would travel thousands of light years just to visit us. We’re just not that interesting. “Or it could be the biggest dud since the Loch Ness monster, and anything in between. Carl Sagan once said, ‘Remarkable claims require remarkable proof.’ So if it is a sign of an extraterrestrial, we have to be able to identify what this object is. One candidate is its evidence of a type-2 civilization. We’re a type zero; we get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. Type 1 is planetary; they can control the weather, they can control the entire planet. Type 2 is stellar, they control stars like in Star Trek. Type 3 is galactic like in Star Wars. The energy necessary to drop starlight by 22 percent would qualify this as a type 2 civilization—that is, they can play with stars—however it’s a guess as we simply don’t know if it’s truly a signature of an extraterrestrial civilization or if it’s a wild goose chase. We don’t know.” The possibility that it could be a signature of another civilization has sparked further debate on the validity of the Fermi Paradox. The Fermi Paradox attempts to explain why we are seemingly alone in the universe. Physicist Enrico Fermi believed that if alien societies exist, one of them would have easily colonized galaxies in the span of a few million years. The time scales for colonizing galaxies is miniscule compared to the age of the universe, so if any existed we would have seen some signs of them. CONTINUE READING: observer.com/2015/11/dr-michio-kaku-on-why-aliens-may-exist-but-arent-landing-on-the-white-house-lawn/
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Post by auntym on Jan 3, 2017 15:18:14 GMT -6
MICHIO KAKU SAYS 'ALIENS ARE OUT THERE'
Michio Kaku Aliens Exist!! Contact with ETs Imminent!!
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Post by auntym on Mar 3, 2018 14:56:54 GMT -6
Why Michio Kaku wants to avoid alien contact at all costsBig Think Published on Feb 25, 2018 If aliens do exist, theoretical physicist Michio Kaku posits, why would they want anything to do with us? It would be like a hunter talking to a squirrel, he suggests, and he has a great point. Hollywood and science fiction novels have conditioned us for years to believe that aliens either want to hang out on our intellectual level and learn from us... or destroy us. If alien life really does have the technology and know-how to make it all the way here, perhaps we should just play it cool and not assume that we are the top species in the universe. Read more at BigThink.com: bigthink.com/videos/michio-kaku-michio-kaku-lets-not-advertise-our-existence-to-aliens
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Post by swamprat on Mar 3, 2018 20:52:19 GMT -6
Just received Michio Kaku's new book, "The Future of Humanity"; haven't read it yet.Michio Kaku sees amazing things in our future, except for those scary robotsThe popular physicist weighs in on climate change, Mars colonies, immortality, and more.
by David Freeman Mar.02.2018
Ray guns. Starships. Aliens. Michio Kaku has been thinking about futuristic things since he was a child in northern California, watching Flash Gordon and trying to understand Einstein. He knew at an early age that he wanted to be a physicist because, as he puts it, they "invent the future" by developing new technologies.
"I began to realize that... the engines of the 20th century, every single one, can be traced back to some unnamed physicist toiling in his or her laboratory, creating the internet and creating rockets and creating all the wonder of the Space Age," he says. "I wanted to be part of that."
Kaku got his wish, of course. He grew up to be not only a physicist but a famous one, known as a co-founder of string field theory as well as a popular science communicator. And he's written a dozen books on science-themed topics, including the newly published "The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth."
Recently, I sat down with Kaku to discuss his eye-popping and, for the most part, upbeat predictions about life in the decades and centuries ahead. Here, edited for clarity and brevity, is our conversation.
DAVID FREEMAN: "THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY" SEEMS TO BE MOSTLY ABOUT SPACE. IS OUR FUTURE REALLY GOING TO TAKE PLACE ON OTHER WORLDS? MICHIO KAKU: We like to think of Mother Nature as being nurturing and friendly, but 99.9 percent of all life forms on Earth eventually go extinct. Extinction is the norm. It's almost a law of physics that one day Mother Nature will destroy Earth. We see that because of natural disasters, asteroid impacts, supervolcanoes and ice ages. But there are self-inflicted disasters as well — global warming, nuclear proliferation, and germ warfare. No one is talking about evacuating Earth and going to Mars. I want a plan B just in case Mother Nature turns on us, or the folly of humanity gets out of control. DF: ELON MUSK, STEPHEN HAWKING AND OTHERS HAVE SAID HUMANS NEED TO BECOME A MULTIPLANET SPECIES. YOU'RE IN THAT CAMP? MK: Yeah, strongly. That's right. DF: WHAT'S THE SCARIEST THING FACING HUMANITY RIGHT NOW? MK: The scariest things are the self-inflicted problems. We're at the point where we can terraform Earth — that is, we can alter the climate. I would prefer to terraform Mars and make it hospitable to earthlings, but we're terraforming Earth right now, which is a terrifying thought. DF: BUT YOU'VE SAID THAT AS FUSION AND OTHER ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES ARE DEVELOPED, CLIMATE CHANGE MAY POSE LESS OF A THREAT IN THE FUTURE. DO YOU SEE GLOBAL WARMING AS A BLIP THAT WE'VE GOT TO PASS THROUGH — OR AN ONGOING PROBLEM? MK: It is one of the major problems facing us now, but I see light at the end of the tunnel. In southern France we have the ITER fusion reactor, which is an ace in the hole. This $10-billion project will hopefully show that seawater could become the ultimate source of energy on Earth. Fusion is relatively nonpolluting and does not create nuclear waste or melt down like fission reactors. Second of all, the price of batteries is going down dramatically. We forget that the bottleneck for solar power is storage. We think it's the solar cell, but no, it's the battery. When the sun doesn't shine and the winds don't blow, you're stuck. But now we're making enormous inroads, creating super-batteries. I think that could change the economics of solar power very rapidly so that it is fully competitive with fossil fuel technology. DF: AS FOR TERRAFORMING MARS, HOW WOULD WE DO THAT? MK: We'd do it in steps. When we land on Mars we use lava tubes, caves that already exist, for our shelter. Then we mine the ice, separate out drinking water and then oxygen and hydrogen — oxygen for breathing and hydrogen for rocket fuel. Then we create agriculture. We genetically modify plants to thrive in the cold Martian conditions. I expect we'll have solar mirrors in outer space beaming energy to the polar ice caps, melting the polar ice caps because there's plenty of water on Mars, except most of it is frozen. Mars once had great rivers, it had seas, and we think it had an ocean roughly the size of the United States. So Mars at one point was potentially a lush planet. By melting the polar ice caps, we can start this process. If we could raise the temperature by six degrees centigrade, a runaway greenhouse effect could be initiated. DF: WHAT IF THERE'S ALREADY LIFE ON MARS? MK: First, we have to make sure we're the only game in town on Mars. We have to make sure there's no microbial life, because our DNA would interact with foreign DNA with unknown consequences. And we have to make sure there's no intelligent life because we all know what happened when Cortez met Montezuma. It was not very pleasant. The Aztec Empire was destroyed within a matter of months, and we don't want a repeat of that. But the latest indication is that Mars is sterile. We don't see any evidence of even microbial life. DF: BUT YOU THINK LIFE IS ABUNDANT THROUGHOUT THE MILKY WAY? MK: I think it's inevitable. On average, 100 percent of the stars you see at night have planets going around them. When you look in the night sky tonight, realize that somebody could be looking back at you, wondering if there's life on this solar system. I think it's inevitable that we're going to find evidence not just of life but also of intelligent life because our galaxy has perhaps billions of Earth-like planets. DF: HOW MANY EXOPLANETS HAVE WE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED? MK: Four thousand planets have been cataloged and verified. The number of Earth-like planets is about 20. However, we think there could be billions of Earth-like planets out there in our own backyard. DF: WHEN DO YOU THINK WE WILL ENCOUNTER ALIEN LIFE? MK: I think we will pick up a signal from an intelligent civilization in outer space in this century. However, that doesn't mean we'll have a two-way conversation. They could be many hundreds of light-years away, so it would take hundreds of years for a conversation to take place. But when that takes place, when we do eavesdrop on an intelligent civilization in outer space, that could be a turning point in the history of civilization on Earth. DF: A RECENT PAPER SUGGESTS THAT ENCOUNTERING ALIEN LIFE WOULDN'T CAUSE MUCH OF A REACTION. IS THAT WHAT YOU THINK? MK: If we encounter an intelligent species in the universe, the first thing we would have to do is find out whether they're a Type I, Type II, or Type III civilization. A Type I civilization is about a hundred years more advanced than we are. They are planetary. They control the weather, for example. Type II is stellar, like "Star Trek." They control the stars and are a few thousand years ahead of us. If they're Type III, they're galactic like in "Star Wars." They roam the galactic space lanes. They control black holes and are perhaps on the order of a hundred thousand years plus more advanced. Once we intercept their message, the first thing we have to do is figure out how advanced they are. Because we are Type 0, and if we meet them it's like you meeting a squirrel in the forest. Do you go down to the squirrels and try to talk to them? Initially, you do. But then you get bored because they don't talk back. Squirrels have nothing to offer us. DF: HOW DO YOU THINK AN ALIEN ENCOUNTER WOULD PLAY OUT? MK: There's a possibility that they'll land on the White House lawn and announce their existence and initiate an Age of Aquarius. I don't think so. I think for the most part, they're going to leave us alone. If they want minerals, they can plunder other uninhabited planets that have no restive natives, so they don't have to plunder Earth. I think for the most part they'll probably consider us a curiosity. DF: IF ELON MUSK GETS HIS ROCKETS READY, WOULD YOU MOVE TO MARS? MK: I would not. I think the first people to go to Mars are going to be heroic. They're probably going to be test pilots or people with lots of experience going into very dangerous situations. They'll realize that, yeah, there's a certain fraction of our space probes that don't make it. One percent of our rockets blow up or malfunction disastrously, so I think you've got to be a pretty hardy person to face all the hazards of going to Mars.
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DF: BUT YOU THINK THAT EVENTUALLY WE WILL HAVE A COLONY ON MARS? MK: Yeah, I think so because the economics have changed. You know the movie "The Martian" with Matt Damon? That movie cost $100 million. It costs $70 million for the Indian government to go to Mars. It cost more money for Hollywood to make a film about going to Mars than actually going to Mars. I think when the Oscars take place, they should give a special award for the best supporting space probe, because Hollywood movies cost more than trips to Mars. That's how much the price has dropped dramatically. It's a new ball game. DF: LET'S TALK A BIT ABOUT LIFE HERE ON EARTH. WHAT'S LIFE GOING TO BE LIKE 10 YEARS, 20 YEARS IN THE FUTURE? WHAT BIG CHANGE IS COMING? MK: In the area of biotechnology, I think we're going to extend the human lifespan. We're now isolating the genes that control the aging process. We've even found an enzyme called telomerase, which immortalizes cells, so your skin cells divide 60 times, then they go into senescence and they eventually die. There's a clock in every skin cell in your body. We can reset the clock with telomerase. But there's a problem why we don't do this now. It's because cancer cells also immortalize themselves. Artificial intelligence will seal the deal. We'll take millions of genomes from old people, millions of genomes from young people, and see where the aging takes place, and we'll do that using artificial intelligence to recognize millions and millions of sequences of DNA. I think that, for example, in a car, where does aging take place in a car? Well, where do you have moving parts and where do you have combustion? The engine. So aging takes place in the mitochondria of your cells because that's where we have moving parts and that's where we have combustion and oxidation. That's where errors build up. Aging is the accumulation of errors, so we'll fix those errors with gene therapy. I think our grandkids will have the option of hitting the age of 30 and maybe stopping for many, many decades at age 30. DF: WILL THAT BE A GOOD THING? MK: At first you think "Oh, my God, we're going to overpopulate ourselves." But look at Japan. It's had the opposite effect. The Japanese people live longer. The population has fewer children, and the population is contracting at a half a million people per year. By mid-century, it'll collapse at one million people per year. Europe is next. Germany, Switzerland, Austria — their birth rate is falling just like what was happening in Japan. I think as we conquer the aging process, we'll find that instead of exploding, we'll have an S-shaped curve. It'll seal off and I think we'll have a stable population in the future. DF: IN ADDITION TO STOPPING THE AGING CLOCK, YOU'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PUTTING HUMAN MINDS INTO ROBOTS. MK: Right. DF: IS THAT AN ALTERNATIVE VERSION OF IMMORTALITY? MK: We're going to have the Human Connectome Project map the human brain before the end of this century, I think. We're going to put the connectome on a laser beam and shoot it to the moon. In one second, our consciousness is on the moon. In 20 minutes we're on Mars, eight hours we're on Pluto, in four years our consciousness has reached the nearest star. DF: CONNECTOME BEING THE MAP OF ALL THE NEURONS IN YOUR BRAIN? Now, believe it or not, I personally believe that this could already exist. If aliens are already Type I and Type II, they already laser-port their consciousness across the galaxy. They don't bother with UFOs. Flying saucers, my God, that's Type 0 technology. DF: SOME PEOPLE ARE BEGINNING TO WORRY THAT ROBOTS ARE GOING TO STEAL OUR JOBS AND REACH A LEVEL OF INTELLIGENCE WHERE THEY'LL TURN ON US. DO YOU WORRY ABOUT THOSE THINGS? MK: No. They'll take some jobs that are repetitive, but jobs that are semi-skilled like plumbers, gardeners, garbage men, sanitation workers, they'll have jobs many decades into the future because robots cannot pick up garbage. Robots do not have pattern recognition. They cannot identify a crime. They cannot fix your toilet. On the internet, you can see these robots — the finest robots that we can create — falling over and acting like an upside-down turtle. Robots today have the intelligence of a cockroach. By the time they're as smart as a monkey, that's when they're dangerous because they have self-awareness. They know they are not humans. DF: WHEN DO YOU THINK ROBOTS WILL BECOME AS SMART AS A MONKEY? MK: I think by the end of this century we'll have robots as smart as a monkey that understand that they are not human, that they are distinct from humans. DF: WHAT HAPPENS THEN — ALL BETS ARE OFF? MK: We should put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts. DF: MAYBE THEY'D HAVE A WAY TO GET AROUND THAT. MK: I think for this century we're okay. But for the next century, once robots can remove that chip in their brain, I think we should merge with them. DF: FOR ALL THE POSSIBLE PITFALLS, YOU SOUND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OUR FUTURE. WHY? MK: In the last century, life expectancy for Americans in 1900 was officially 49 years of age. We were born, had kids, and died. Our grandparents, when they wanted to talk to people long distance, they would yell out the window. If they wanted to travel to meet their friends, they got stuck in the mud. It was not pleasant living a hundred years ago. So when I look at history decade by decade, I see this tremendous explosion of wealth, prosperity, telecommunications. We live like kings compared to our ancestors. If you took someone from 1900 and showed them today's technology, they would consider us wizards and sorcerers. Now, if you take one of us and have us see our grandkids in the year 2100, we will consider them to be Greek gods. Zeus could have his thoughts come to reality. We'll have that. We'll think of things, and things will come true. I think we will live like Greek gods in the future. DF: BUT FOR ALL THE ADVANCES AND ALL THE SORCERY, WON'T IT FEEL PRETTY MUCH THE SAME TO BE HUMAN, EMOTIONALLY SPEAKING? MK: We are genetically hardwired to be grouches, to be curmudgeons. Why? Because our ancestors who did not complain did not survive. They didn't ask for extra resources. They didn't ask for extra help, even when, during the Middle Ages, most people died very early. I think our ancestors bellyached a lot. Our ancestors were fearful. Our ancestors, believe it or not, were fearful, bellyaching monkeys. DF: SO OUR CHILDREN'S AND GRANDCHILDREN'S LIVES WILL BE INCREDIBLY DIFFERENT FROM OUR OWN— MK: They'll live like gods. DF: BUT THEY'LL STILL BE PROGRAMMED TO BE GROUCHES. MK: That's right. They'll bellyache.
www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/michio-kaku-sees-amazing-things-our-future-except-those-scary-ncna851226
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Post by auntym on Mar 28, 2018 18:05:09 GMT -6
futurism.com/michio-kaku-prominent-futurist-predictions/ Physicist Michio Kaku Has Some Powerful Predictions for the Futureby Jolene Creighton / futurism.com/author/jolene-creighton/ March 26, 2018 No one knows more about the world of tomorrow than Michio Kaku. Equal parts theoretical physicist, futurist, and popular science communicator, Kaku studies cutting-edge science and technology in order to understand the future. A graduate of Harvard University and Berkeley, Kaku has spent 25 years as a professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York. His main challenge has been to unite the laws of our universe in a grand “theory of everything” — the same thing to which Albert Einstein dedicated much of his career. Yes, this seems just a little daunting. But Kaku’s foundational contributions to string field theory brought physicists the closest they’ve ever come to actually achieving it. In short: he’s got real science behind him. Which gives him a unique perspective and background to predict what the future will be like. Kaku’s Take on TomorrowWhen most people look to the future, they envision a world in which flying cars soar high above us as we edit diseases out of our genes. But to Kaku, one innovation looms largest, blotting out other sights: drones. In an interview with Futurism at the World Government Summit last month, the topic dominated the conversation. Kaku has been warning of the dangers of militarized drone systems for years. The threat of military drones, he says, is absolute. “The only immediate danger is automatic killing machines,” he said. Those who portend a future filled with Terminator-style robots armed with artificial superintelligence ignore real and imminent dangers. “That’s not going to happen for another hundred years, so I’m not worried,” he said, and Here’s what should really give us pause, according to Kaku: We have drones that a human supervises and says, ‘kill that target.’ In the future, the drone will recognize the human form and have permission to kill the target. It may go crazy one day—a mistake, a short circuit could take place—and it just keeps shooting that human form independent of any instructions. Automatic killing machines are the one thing we have to worry about today, not tomorrow. But other than that, we really don’t have to worry about the robots taking over. Kaku’s Predictions Beyond Here are some of Kaku’s other predictions on a variety of topics: *Extraterrestrial Life: “Within this century, we will make contact with an alien civilization by listening in on their radio communications.” *The Evolution of AI: “Simple tasks done by humans are way beyond what a robot can do. But, as the decades go by, they will become as smart as a mouse, then rat, then a cat, dog, and monkey. By that point, they might become dangerous and even replace humans, near the end of the century.” *Colonizing Alien Worlds: “We need an insurance policy, a backup plan. The dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, and that’s why they’re not here today. No one’s saying we should leave the Earth and go to Mars, but a settlement on Mars is a definite possibility.” *Bitcoin: “You cannot stop virtual currency. As far as, ‘what are things worth?’ Things are worth whatever your willing to pay for it….so it’s gambling. It’s speculation. As far as my personal attitude towards it, it’s not productive. Bitcoin is not a productive industry.” *Driverless Cars: “As transportation is digitized in the next decade, driverless cars, guided by GPS and radar, will share our highways. ‘Traffic accidents’ and ‘traffic jams’ will become archaic terms. Thousands of lives will be saved every year.” futurism.com/michio-kaku-prominent-futurist-predictions/
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Post by auntym on Jun 1, 2018 15:02:16 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Sept 20, 2018 9:04:17 GMT -6
Michio Kaku: (born 24 January 1947) is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and popularizer of science. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center. Kaku has written several books about physics and related topics, has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film, and writes online blogs and articles. He has written four New York Times best sellers: Physics of the Impossible (2008), Physics of the Future (2011), The Future of the Mind (2014), and The Future of Humanity (2018). Kaku has hosted several TV specials for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel.
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Post by paulette on Sept 20, 2018 13:05:16 GMT -6
I just watched Matthew McConelly in Interstellar, a movie released in 2014. (I had never heard of it). It plays fairly believeably with the concept of multiple dimensions and travelling in time. That "ghosts" are travellers (who may not know the rules of the road).
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Post by swamprat on Nov 26, 2018 14:33:32 GMT -6
Dr. Michio Kaku @michiokaku I often get asked: where are the aliens from space? My guess is that they exist. But if they can reach us from the stars, they are a Type II or III civilization and are thousands of years ahead of us. So we have nothing to offer them. 6:07 PM - 22 Nov 2018
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Post by auntym on Apr 22, 2019 13:11:39 GMT -6
Dr. Michio Kaku Verified account @michiokaku Questions about space? The physics of the present, or THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY? Ask Me Anything on @reddit_AMA at iama.reddit.com tomorrow April 23rd @ 12 pm ET. #reddit #AskMichioKakuAnything
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Post by auntym on Sept 13, 2019 15:00:46 GMT -6
news.yahoo.com/a-turning-point-on-uf-os-physicist-michio-kaku-tells-uf-ology-conference-the-truth-is-out-there-090005631.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=twA 'turning point' on UFOs: Physicist Michio Kaku tells ufology conference the truth is out thereby Melissa Rossi Contributor / www.yahoo.com/author/melissa-rossi,Yahoo News•September 13, 2019 Michio Kaku speaks at the Ufology World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Sept. 7. (Photo: José Colon for Yahoo News) BARCELONA, Spain — For the often-ridiculed followers of ufology, the study of unidentified flying objects, there was a sense of validation when the celebrated physicist and author Michio Kaku took a break from his work on string field theory to address the Ufology World Congress here last weekend and offer some advice on how to behave aboard an alien spaceship. “For God’s sake, steal something!” he exhorted the audience of 1,000 at the Hesperia Barcelona Tower hotel, famous for its spaceship bar perched off the 29th floor. Kaku said a pocketed alien paper clip, alien fork, even a bit of “alien dandruff” would yield useful chemical and genetic information to scientists. It is, of course, a matter of speculation whether extraterrestrials have hair, let alone dandruff. Drawings based on the descriptions of people who claim to have seen them typically depict them as bald, although there is also believed to be a race of blond humanoid aliens known as “Nordics.” Kaku, a well-known science writer, media personality and professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York Graduate Center, also spoke to Yahoo News about assorted planetary matters, including his concerns about a future traffic jam in orbits around the moon, in a separate interview. Even without extraterrestrial dandruff to analyze, the field of astrobiology, the study of life outside Earth, has been invigorated recently by some provocative findings released over the past 20 months. Researchers have been poring over recently declassified videos shot by U.S. Navy pilots over the East Coast in 2015, showing mysterious flying objects that behave like no known aircraft. Thanks to newly updated radar systems in Navy jets, the videos have aided scientists by providing “testability” and previously unknown metrics about UFOs. “We now know they fly between Mach 5 and Mach 20 — five to 20 times the speed of sound,” Kaku said. “We know they zigzag so fast that any pilot would be crushed by centrifugal force. That they have no exhaust that we can see.” The explanations usually invoked for UFO sightings — meteors, weather balloons, even the planet Venus — can’t explain these live-action high-precision shots, said Kaku, leading to either of two possible conclusions: They are of human origin, representing a technology so cutting-edge that even leading scientists are puzzled by it. Or, he said, “maybe they are evidence of an advanced outer space civilization.” Could they be Russian, not Martian? Perhaps, Kaku allowed, given that last year Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that “Russia had built a hypersonic flying vehicle that can zigzag.” The U.S. and China are also working on hypersonic drones. On the other hand, Kaku emphasized, “maybe they are extraterrestrial.” After all, he noted, the universe is 13.8 billion years old, while earthly science was born merely 300 years ago; on any of 4,000 recently discovered exoplanets, where life as we know it might be able to exist, alien civilizations may well have had much longer to advance their scientific and technological skills. CONTINUE READING: news.yahoo.com/a-turning-point-on-uf-os-physicist-michio-kaku-tells-uf-ology-conference-the-truth-is-out-there-090005631.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=tw
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Post by auntym on Sept 15, 2019 11:54:56 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Apr 9, 2021 20:37:41 GMT -6
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Post by paulette on Apr 11, 2021 21:29:00 GMT -6
I think I've heard the music of living things (here on earth) when I was under the influence of peyote.
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Post by swamprat on Aug 11, 2022 19:41:29 GMT -6
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Post by auntym on Feb 15, 2023 22:33:49 GMT -6
www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-truth-about-ufos-with-michio-kaku/ar-AA17xAyZ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9538e9db195e44718abc32af40d59aac The Truth About UFOs with Michio KakuStory by Jesse Edwards / 2-15-2023 The following is a lightly edited transcript from part of a larger conversation with Professor Michio Kaku during an episode of the Newsweek Radio Podcast about communication, artificial intelligence, fission vs. fusion, UFOs and figure skating. Above, Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist and the co-founder of string field theory, gives a lecture about future technology and lifestyle during the seventh edition of Colombia's Campus Party on July 1, 2014, in Cali, Valle del Cauca, Colombia. Kaku recently spoke to Newsweek Radio Podcast about communication, artificial intelligence, fission vs. fusion, UFOs and figure skating. © AFP via Getty Images/LUIS ROBAYO Jesse Edwards: What do you think UFOs actually are? Are we talking aliens? Are we talking interdimensional beings, humans visiting us from the future? Maybe a combination of all three? What do you think it really is? Michio Kaku: Well, first of all, I think that there's been a game changer. In the old days, the burden of proof was on the true believers to prove that what they saw last night was a flying saucer of some sort. Now the burden of proof has shifted. Now it's the military, the military has to prove that these aren't extraterrestrial objects. So, there's been a sea change. And why? Because you see, science is not based on single observations by a single technology. Science is based on multiple modes using multiple sources of data. In other words, not just one person saying, "I saw something last night." But many people simultaneously locking onto something, not just with eyesight, but with cameras, with infrared sensors, with ultraviolet sensors. So multiple sightings by multiple modes. That's the gold standard. Now, we didn't have that until recently. Now we have hours of Navy footage giving us the raw data by which we can quantify many of these characteristics. We now know, for example, that if you can believe these videotapes, these objects can fly between Mach 5 and Mach 20. That is 20 times the speed of sound. Between Mach 5 and Mach 20, they zigzag, creating G-force of several hundred G's. Bones would break, and bodies would be crushed in that situation. Not only that, but they can also dive bomb several miles just within a few seconds, and then go into the ocean. They can apparently move in the oceans as well as fly in the air. So, we now have the quantification of some of the data. And then the next question, what does it mean if an object can fly between Mach 5 and Mach 20, can dive bomb tens of thousands of feet within a few seconds, creating G-forces of several hundred G's? What does that mean? Well, we cannot make a definitive conclusion. We can have two partial conclusions. One conclusion is of course they are extraterrestrial. That is something that cannot be ruled out, and it's something that we have to take seriously. And I'll address that point in a minute. The other possibility, however, is that they are optical illusions. If you have an object whizzing in front of your eyes, for example, very slowly, and you think this object is several miles away, then you calculate that this object is moving in hundreds of miles per hour. So in other words: perspective—you have to know the distance between the camera and the object. You are looking at the distance that is very hard to attain with these videotapes. With these videotapes, we don't know how far away these objects are. So, in other words, it's still possible that they could be parallax optical illusions. Now, let's take each conclusion to its logical end. Let's say they are extraterrestrial. Then what does it mean for a physicist? Well, you talk to a physicist about these objects, and most physicists would roll their eyes, look up in the sky, raise their hands and say "impossible" because of the fact it takes centuries, centuries for a rocket to go from one planet to another planet in another solar system, impractical. But you see, there's a mistake there. The mistake there is to assume that the aliens are a few hundred years more advanced than us, that's the mistake that a majority of scientists make. That's why they say "bah-humbug, no way these objects can reach us. They're too far away." But you see, let's now assume that they are millions of years more advanced than us. And of course, the universe is over 13 billion years old. What is a few million years compared to the age of the universe? Then we're talking about a new technology. We're talking about type one, type two, or type three civilizations. A type one civilization has harnessed planetary power. They control the weather. They control volcanoes, they control the oceans. That's type one, sort of like Buck Rogers. Then there's type two—type two controls the output of the sun. They control stars. That's the energy source like Star Trek. Star Trek would be a typical type two civilization. They've colonized a fraction of the area of the galaxy, but not much more than that. Then there's type three—type three is galactic. They've harnessed the energy of an entire galaxy, like Star Wars. Star Wars would be a type three civilization. Now, if you want to build a flying saucer that can go between stars, you probably have to be type three. Now why is that? Because the energy scale that you need is the energy scale called the Planck energy. The Planck energy is the energy of the big bang, is the energy of a black hole—it is the energy at which space and time become unstable. If you have, for example, an ice cube and you put it in a microwave oven, you turn it on, well, the ice eventually melts, turns into water. The water eventually vaporizes and turns into steam. The steam eventually decomposes and ionizes into quarks and subatomic particles. Now let's boil space! If I take a microwave oven and heat it up to the Planck energy, which is a quadrillion times the energy of the large Hadron Collider outside Geneva, Switzerland, eventually space becomes unstable. It begins to boil holes, and bubbles begin to form inside your microwave oven. These bubbles are wormholes, they are gateways to another universe. Of course, we've never done that, but that's what the mathematics implies, that eventually you boil space to the point that bubbles form—these bubbles are gateways to another universe. That's where the aliens of type three may come from. In other words, to travel across the stars, you need a shortcut. And that shortcut would be holes that are generated by the Planck energy. Now, you've seen these wormholes before. Think of Alice in Wonderland,the looking glass. The looking glass was created by a mathematician. Charles Dodgson, otherwise known as Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice in Wonderland. The looking glass is the wormhole. It is a gateway connecting two universes together, such that when Alice put her hand through the looking glass, she entered another universe. That is the way that a type three civilization could go between stars without having to wait tens of thousands of years for a chemical rocket to reach nearby stars. By the way, a Saturn rocket would take 70,000 years to reach the nearest stars. That's why many scientists think that the aliens are not going to come anytime soon. The stars are simply too far away, but that assumes the aliens are a few hundred years from us. If they are a million years from us, the Planck energy is conceivable, in which case they simply boil space and hop right through. JE: Is it true that you built a particle accelerator in your garage when you were a kid? MK: Yeah, that's right. When I was 8 years old, something happened, which changed my life completely. The newspaper said that a scientist had just died, and on his desk, they put a picture, his desk, with a book that was unfinished. And the commentary was that the greatest scientist of our time could not finish that book. Well, I was fascinated. I wanted to know about who was that scientist? Why couldn't he finish that book? Well, that scientist was Albert Einstein, and that book was a unified field theory, the theory of everything. So, when I was in high school, I wanted to be part of this great chase to find the theory of everything. So, I built a particle accelerator, a 2.3 million electron vault betatron electron accelerator in my mom's garage. It consumed six kilowatts of power and created a magnetic field 20,000 times the Earth's magnetic field. And my poor mom, of course, was wondering what her son is doing, building these things in the garage. Well, I would recommend that all the young people out there who are also fascinated by science, that they too meet the challenge of being at the cutting edge of science. JE: What do you do for fun when you're trying to relax? MK: Believe it or not, I like to go figure skating. In fact, if you get on the web and just simply Googled me, figure skating, you can see me figure skating at Rockefeller Center. I took my kids to the ice rink one day and I saw them fall down and I said to myself, "I'm paying good money to watch my kids fall down." And I said to myself, "I can learn it myself and teach my kids for free." Well, learning how to jump and spin was harder than I thought. But after about a year, anybody can be proficient and learn how to do elementary jumps and spins. Dr. Michio Kaku—theoretical physicist, bestselling author, acclaimed public speaker, renowned futurist, and popularizer of science. As co-founder of string field theory, Dr. Kaku carries on Einstein's quest to unite the four fundamental forces of nature into a single grand unified theory of everything. www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-truth-about-ufos-with-michio-kaku/ar-AA17xAyZ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=9538e9db195e44718abc32af40d59aac
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