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The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything
By Michio Kaku
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13 minute read
Published Apr 6, 2021
What you'll learn
Where was matter before it burst into the macroscopic material of the universe? Truth be told, physicists still don’t know. But as science creeps along with every century inspiring new revelations, contemporary physics may at last have an answer—a theory of such small proportions (and so many dimensions), that it unravels the Big Bang. Theoretical physicist Michio Kaku offers string theory as an increasingly evident solution to the question of the universe—an answer that may reveal the interior of black holes, the existence of time travel, and even a glimpse of God’s creative mystery.
Key insights
- 1 The dominoes began to fall with Newton and Maxwell—their discoveries propelled a search that continues today.
- 2 Einstein discovered that the universe was a shape twisted by gravity, but he failed to uncover a “unified field theory.”
- 3 The Standard Model failed to squeeze gravity into its quantum calculations.
- 4 You can’t sense them, but according to string theory, you might be living in 11 dimensions.
- 5 Don’t throw away your time machine just yet—a theory of everything may answer some of science’s most speculative quandaries.
- 6 God is not a theorem to prove or an equation to disqualify.
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