Parallel Thoughts from Parallel Worlds

Hi and welcome to Monday Muses with Jessica! This week I’m discussing Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku. Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist, futurist, and science enthusiast. He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City College of New York and CUNY Graduate Center

I found this book after falling through a wormhole of videos on physics and the Universe. I found Michio Kaku so engaging and incredibly fascinating. With some more Internet searching I found his books Parallel Worlds and The Future of the Mind. So, I got both! Physics has become a fun hobby of mine, when I’m not obsessing over the perfect cuppa tea.

" This is the theory that the smallest material particle in the universe is not a point in space but a string, and how that string vibrates determines the element."

In Parallel Worlds, Kaku takes us on a journey through the creation of the Universe. He talks about String theory, which I think is one of the most beautiful explanations of everything! This is the theory that the smallest material particle in the universe is not a point in space but a string, and how that string vibrates determines the element. Changing the vibration results in a different element. In other words, music, everything that exists is music! (Or at least that’s what I understand it to mean). String Theory’s latest iteration, M-theory, which proposes that our universe is just one in an endless multiverse, a singular bubble floating in a sea of infinite bubble universes. In this journey, Kaku explores black holes and time machines, multidimensional space, and the possibility that parallel universes may lay alongside our own.

Anyway, this book is fantastic and magical and available at the tea shop if anyone wants to borrow it! --Jess