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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Unabridged)
 
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Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Michio Kaku (Author), Marc Vietor (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 14 hours and 55 minutes
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  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: Audible, Inc.
  • Audible Release Date: 8 Sep 2009
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SQB7RO
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

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In this thrilling journey into the mysteries of our cosmos, best-selling author Michio Kaku takes us on a dizzying ride to explore black holes and time machines, multidimensional space, and most tantalizing of all, the possibility that parallel universes may exist alongside our own.

Kaku skillfully guides us through the latest innovations in string theory and its latest iteration, M-theory, which posits that our universe may be just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes. If M-theory is proven correct, we may perhaps finally find an answer to the question, "What happened before the big bang?"

This is an exciting and unforgettable introduction into the new cutting-edge theories of physics and cosmology from one of the pre-eminent voices in the field.

©2006 Michio Kaku; (P)2009 Audible, Inc.
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44 of 45 people found the following review helpful
Wow! 19 April 2007
By Matthew H VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
This book is mind blowing. Written on a level that makes it accessible to pretty much everybody it covers all aspects of cosmology and their implications regarding time travel, parallel worlds, string theory and black holes. It even covers some of the history behind the major scientists involved (Einstein, Gamow, Schrodinger, Hoyle etc) and includes anecdotes telling of the debates they had with each other concerning some of the major questions. It doesn't matter if you don't fully understand some of the ideas (Quantum theory, for example, is probably fully understood by nobody), there are plenty of other things to keep you interested and its all so well written that it really is close to being impossible to put down.
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43 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Michio Kaku's "Parallel Worlds" is the best popular science non-fiction ever written. Its breakthrough theories reach out to the most naive reader with such a strength that whatever you've known about the Big Bang or religious essays on the beginning and the end of our world, suddenly becomes a tiny moment caught in the universe yet ever-evolving.

It has very logical structure on complex issues such as the essence of non-material dark energy that apparently consists the 73 percent of the energy in our universe, the bubble theories of the existence of parallel universes where the humanity can move to as our planet comes to an end due to the unavoidable universal freeze. Thus, he masterfully presents the idea of multiverses that co-exist in a string, subject to ongoing Big Bangs here and there. As he narrates "...entire universes continually sprout or "bud" off other universes. If true, it would unify two of the great religious mythologies, Genesis and Nirvana. Genesis would take place continually within the fabric of timeless Nirvana".

(One has another appreciation for Michio Kaku for his bringing up in a Buddhist family who nevertheless sent him off to a Catholic Sunday School had made him one of the most read scientists.)

Decoding Einstein's and Darwin's at their time distant theories on reading "the God's Mind" and the "end of humanity", Michio Kaku unveils the latest developments in the scientific world on the humanity's beginning and future, claiming that even a string of Big Bangs and multiverses would still need an ultimate creator/composer...

This book is a definite buy on the most indefinite questions we have.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By J. Duducu TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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I love documentaries that start talking about the quantum world. Of course there is part of your mind that is shouting "this makes no sense" but instead I listen to the bit that says "I must know more". If you are turned off by phrases like M-theory or cosmological constant then this is obviously not the book for you.

If, like me, you love popular science and want to push things a little further without getting bogged down in mathematical formulae which mean NOTHING to me then this is the book for you. Kaku is a great guide through the physics of the very big like red dwarfs and black holes to the subatomic world of gluons and string theory. Whenever there's a danger of losing the reader he uses a simple analogy to help the information make sense. His style is light but serious and his ability to pack so much in without losing a layman like me is impressive.

This is a fabulous book about science for the casual adult reader which will get you to look at the world in a very different way. Enjoy the ride.

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Very interesting, but also speculative
This book is very interesting, because it gives explanations of new theories about the universe, and in fact other universes possibly existing, that are extremely... Read more
Published 2 months ago by The Prussian Reader
incredible
Quite simply an amazing read - I have never left a review before but am compelled to do so having just finished this book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mrs. Lisa Thompson
Parallel Worlds
Off the bat i would like to say first, physics in general hold no interest for me but having watched a couple of programs based on this author and his theories of time travel i... Read more
Published 3 months ago by M. L. Shannon
Really love Kaku's stuff, at times a bit overwhelming
Last year I read Michio Kaku's Physics Of The Impossible in a bid to expand my knowledge around the subject of physics, something which, alongside maths and chemistry was not a... Read more
Published 4 months ago by R. A. Davison
Very good!
I love Michio Kaku's appearances on TV so I decided to try one of his books and I must say it was a great idea. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Rui
Good science easily understood
A very good book written in an easily understood way by a man who knows what he is talking about. Some of the concepts stretch your mind a bit but they are explained in an easy... Read more
Published 16 months ago by sologuitarist61
Science Fact blows away Science Fiction
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Read more
Published on 23 April 2010 by A. Burton
Speculations on the cosmos
The cover review describes this book as 'unputdownable'. Well I could put it down OK. A lot of modern physics seems speculative and based on complex mathematical predictions that... Read more
Published on 11 Mar 2010 by Ronald Arthur Dewhirst
You can't put it down.
This is the third of Kaku's books that i've read, and is quite easily his best.

It is a book that confronts the biggest questions in cosmology and quantum theory head... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by T. West
quite hard to digest
in theory this book is brilliant. i found it easy enough to understand much of what kaku talks about and his 'lay-mans' examples of theory's were generally very helpful for someone... Read more
Published on 16 Feb 2010 by jamesr0012
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