Summary
Michio Kaku: Hyperspace
Time travel, fifth, sixth or tenth dimensions, spatial folds, warp, wormholes and multiple universes? Until recently, the area of science fiction or occultism, and in the mid-nineties - the subject of one of the biggest natural history bestsellers, the famous "Hyperspace", translated into twenty languages and an example of a top scientific text interesting even to curious teenagers. Here, even such frightening mathematical terms as non-Euclidean geometry, supergravity or the Kaluza-Klein theory become impeccably comprehensible.
In the last ten years, physicists have asserted that the universe does not consist only of the four dimensions that Einstein introduced us to, but of ten-dimensional hyperspace, the space in which all four natural forces are united, that is, the only space in which it is possible to properly explain and apply the laws of modern physics. Michio Kaku, one of the founders of the string field theory, explains to us that the fundamental components of the universe are not quarks, protons, or electrons, but much smaller particles, called "strings" or "superstrings" that vibrate in spacetime like those of a violin and whose vibrations in different resonances are then manifested in elementary particles.
Through stories from art, history and literature, he shows us how both writers and scientists have been fascinated by the phenomenon of multidimensionality for more than a hundred years years, and his concluding reflections on the dividing line (and points of contact) between religion and science are particularly beautiful and stimulating.
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