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Kaku Michio

Kaku Michio (pseudonym: かくみちお), a Japanese scientist, was born on January 24, 1947 (Ding Hai Year) in San Jose, California, USA.

A best-selling science author, Ph.D. in physics from the famous American institution of higher learning, University of California, Berkeley (UCBerkeley), professor of theoretical physics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and an expert in superstring theory.

Michio Kaku's books have been widely praised. "Conceiving the Future", "Beyond Einstein and Hyperspace", and "Parallel Universe" were all nominated by the "New York Times" and "The Washington Post" One of the best science books of the year. He hosts a nationally networked science radio program and has appeared on national television programs such as "The Hotline," "60 Minutes," "Good Morning America" ??and "Larry King Live." .

Chinese name: Kaku Michio

Foreign name: かくみちお

Nationality: American

Ethnicity: Japanese

Birthplace: San Jose, California, USA

Date of birth: January 24, 1947

Occupation: Theoretical physicist, popular science writer

Graduation Institutions: University of California, Berkeley (Ph.D.), Harvard University (Undergraduate)

Belief: Einstein’s spirit: exploring “the principles of all things.”

Main achievements: Participants in string theory

Superstring theory

Nine books including "Conceiving the Future"

Representative works: "Conceiving the Future", "Beyond Time and Space", "Parallel Universe", "Vision: How Science Will Change in the 21st Century", etc.

Idol: Einstein

Participating program: "Xiaowen Hotline" , "Good Morning America", etc.

Professional title: Professor at City University of New York, USA

Character anecdotes

Michio Kaku's book "Incredible Physics" Preface: How I became a theoretical physicist:

When I was in high school, I built a nuclear particle accelerator in my mother’s garage as a project for a science fair. I went to Westinghouse and collected 400 pounds of scrap transformer steel. Over Christmas, I wound 22 miles of copper wire on the high school football field. Finally, I built a betatron with a power of 2.3 million electron volts. It consumes 6 kilowatts of electricity (equivalent to the total power output of my house) and can generate a magnetic field equivalent to 20,000 times the earth's magnetic field. The goal is to Create gamma rays powerful enough to produce antimatter.

My science fair project led me to the National Science Fair and ultimately led to my dream come true of receiving a scholarship to Harvard University. There I was finally able to pursue my goal of becoming a theoretical physicist and follow in the footsteps of my idol, Einstein.

Kaku Michio later entered the University of California, Berkeley, to pursue a PhD in physics.

Personal works

*Kaku,Michio.Einstein'sCosmos:HowAlbertEinstein'sVisionTransformedOurUnderstandingofSpaceandTime.Orion,2004.ISBN0297847554

*—.ParallelWorlds:TheScienceofAlternativeUniversesandOurFutureintheCosmos.Gardners, 2004.ISBN0713997281

*—.Strings,ConformalFields,andM-Theory.Springer,1999.ISBN0387988920

*—.Introduction to SuperstringsandM-Theory.Springer,1999.ISBN0387985891

< p>*—.Visions:HowScienceWillRevolutionizethe21stCenturyandBeyond.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1999.ISBN0192880187

*—andJenniferTrainerThompson.BeyondEinstein:SuperstringsandtheQuestfortheFinalTheory.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1998.ISBN0192 861964

*—.Hyperspace: AScientificOdysseyThroughParallelUniverses,TimeWarps,andtheTenthDimension.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1994.ISBN0192861891

Chinese translation: "Beyond Time and Space - A Scientific Journey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the Tenth Dimension", translated by Liu Yuxi and Cao Zhiliang , Shanghai Science and Technology Education Press (June 2009)

"Through Hypertime and Space - A Scientific Voyage in Ten Dimensions of Space", translated by Cai Chengzhi and Pan Enen, published by Shangzhou Publishing House (October 1998) 15th), ISBN: 9576672066

*—.QuantumFieldTheory:AModernIntroduction.NewYork:OxfordUniversityPress,1993.ISBN0195076524

*—andDanielAxelrod.ToWinaNuclearWar:ThePentagon'sSecretWarPlans.SouthEndPress,1987.ISBN 0896083217

The physics professor is the founder of superstring theory, and superstring theory is a key to unlocking the "theory of everything" that Einstein was pondering but could not figure out.

Kaku Michio, who was born in a Japanese family, is better at thinking than his peers.

In the United States in 1947, World War II had just ended. People's lives are gradually getting back on track, and scientific explorations that were affected by the war are also getting back on track. On January 24 of this year, Michio Kaku was born in San Jose, California to a Japanese immigrant family. "My grandfather came to the United States when he was young to participate in the relief work of the San Francisco earthquake, and later stayed here."

Although Michio Kaku's father was a native of California. But in order not to forget his origin, he was sent back to Japan for education.

Living in two cultures since childhood has given Michio Kaku more opportunities to think than his peers: "Why is this like this? How do we deal with it in the United States? How will it be different in Japan?"

When he was a child, his parents took him to visit the famous Japanese tea garden in San Francisco from time to time. When the adults drank tea, he squatted by the small pond there and looked at the colorful carps under the water lilies. I thought: "How should carp in the water observe the world around them? Their views should be different from ours, right? Then their world must be wonderful!"

This one with an oriental face The child gradually fell in love with thinking. His game was not hide and seek or anything else, but chess. While attending Cubeley High School, he became the first player on the school's chess team. At the same time, his interest in everything around him grew.

His love for Einstein turned him from an ordinary student into a physics genius.

His curiosity about many things in his childhood made Michio Kaku a "problem child", and an incident that happened by chance when he was in junior high school made him obsessed with physics. "My teacher was telling us a story in class and mentioned a physicist." Michio Kaku recalled: "He mentioned the physicist's name with great reverence and called him the greatest in the entire history of mankind. Scholar, his discoveries changed the whole world and everything around us. But few people can understand his ideas."

This physicist is Einstein. At a young age, Michio Kaku could not understand where his teacher's admiration came from, but he would never forget that tone. Moreover, the teacher finally mentioned that "Einstein passed away before he could complete one of his greatest discoveries" and "the unfinished paper was placed on his desk." This ending aroused the curiosity of Michio Kaku. What is the unfinished work of this great physicist? What problem is so difficult to solve yet so important?

Out of curiosity, Michio Kaku set out to learn everything he could about Einstein. He visited many libraries and spent so much time reading and understanding that "when I think about that time now, it's still as warm as spring."

The proposal of superstring theory has brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire view of physics.

Kaku Michio rushed around libraries, laboratories and wherever he could find all of Einstein's works. Soon he found that the story that attracted him was more exciting and exciting than any novel. More important than anything he could have imagined, he decided to get to the bottom of this secret. To achieve this goal, he aspired to become a theoretical physicist.

He read every book on "unified field theory" in the library in high school, and later went on to Harvard and then get a PhD in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. During this period, he understood Einstein's main topic, which was to combine "general relativity" and "quantum field theory". However, Einstein, a great scientist, spent 40 years without completing this work.

In Einstein's calculations, general relativity and quantum field theory are not self-consistent with each other, so if you want to unify the two, you must have a larger theoretical framework. More physicists followed in Einstein's footsteps, and Michio Kaku was one of them. In 1984, he and several other scientists proposed the "superstring theory", saying, "Originally we thought that the particles that make up matter do not exist, but only the movement of strings in super space." "Various particles are just They are just different vibration modes of strings. "All interactions that occur in nature, including matter and energy, can be understood by the splitting and combining of strings." Under superstring theory, Einstein. The two topics that were once studied were combined, and the entire physics changed dramatically, and many of the things we learned in the past became wrong. Michio Kaku became the founder of superstring theory, and more young physicists began to invest in this new research field.

To him, popularizing science to ordinary people is as important as doing theoretical research.

As an internationally renowned physicist, Michio Kaku positions his work not only in scientific research, but also in the popularization of science. He has published popular science books including "Beyond Time and Space", "Parallel Universe", "Beyond Einstein" and "Incredible Physics", allowing more readers to understand and fall in love with physics.

In the book, Michio Kaku does not look like a highly knowledgeable physics professor, but more like a science fiction enthusiast. In "Incredible Physics", he quoted many classic cartoons and science fiction films, including "Star Trek" and "Flash Gordon", and then derived the physics knowledge behind them. For example, will force fields actually be created one day in the future? When will we be able to use wormholes to travel across the stars? How will artificial intelligence be implemented? Does a perpetual motion machine exist?

The book became popular across the United States upon its release, with Kirkus Reviews calling it "a true tour de force, masterfully and reliably describing everything from subatomic structure to the laws of the universe." Another of his best-selling works, "Beyond Space," was selected as the best popular science book of the year by the New York Times and the Washington Post.

In addition to popularizing science through books, he is also a frequent guest on television shows, including "Nightline," "The Riley King Show" and "Sixty Minutes." He has also appeared several times in documentaries on American public television, and has produced special features for BBC, TechTV, SciFi, Channel and other channels. His ability to explain science programs is superb. He can explain any theory that seems mysterious at first glance in simple language, and there is a depth in his voice that is very touching.