Hyperspace
A Scientific Odyssey through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 April 2016
- ISBN 9780198785033
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 194x138x22 mm
- Weight 282 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 41 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Hyperspace is the run-away bestseller from one of the world's leading theoretical physicists. Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Michio Kaku takes us on a tour of the most exciting work in modern physics, including research into 10-dimensional space, time warps, and multiple universes.
MoreLong description:
Already thoroughly familiar to the seasoned science fiction fan, hyperspace is that realm which enables a spaceship captain to take his ship on a physics-defying shortcut (or "wormhole") to the outer shores of the Galaxy in less time than it takes a 747 to fly from New York to Tokyo. But might such notions be more than science fiction? Some physicists suggest a 10-dimensional hyperspace may actually exist, albeit at a scale almost too small to comprehend, smaller even than a quark; and that in spite of its tiny size, it may be the basis on which all the forces of nature will be united.
Michio Kaku's classic book describes the development of ideas about multidimensional space. In recent years, some theoretical physicists -the author among them - have argued that the Universe exists not merely in the four spacetime dimensions (3 of space + one of time) with which Einstein made us familiar, but rather as a ten-dimensional hyperspace. Once the domain of the science fiction writer or the occultist, hyperspace may, according to superstring theorists, be the way to unify the fundamental forces of nature - Einstein's unfulfilled dream of a theory of everything.
Michio Kaku takes the reader on a ride through hyperspace to the edge of physics. On the way he gives crystal clear explanations of such formidable mathematical concepts as non-Euclidean geometry, Kaluza-Klein Theory, and Supergravity, the everyday tools of the string theorist. Utilizing fascinating and often hilarious anecdotes from history, art, and science fiction, Kaku shows us that writers and artists - in addition to scientists - have been fascinated by multidimensional space for over a century. Finally, Kaku proposes that the ability to master hyperspace may be our only salvation from destruction at the end of spacetime.
Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
It is the best documentation for the layman of this history that I know of.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I: Entering the Fifth Dimension
Worlds beyond space and time
Mathematicians and mystics
The man who "saw" the fourth dimension
The secret of light: vibrations in the fifth dimension
Part II: Unification in ten dimension
Quantum heresy
Einstein's revenge
Superstrings
Signals from the tenth dimension
Before creation
Part III: Wormholes: Gateways to another universe?
Black holes and parallel universes
To build a time machine
Colliding universes
Part IV: Masters of hyperspace
Beyond the future
The Fate of the universe
Conclusion
Notes
References and Suggested Reading
Index
