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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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A collection of the best science and nature writing published in North America in 2019, guest edited by New York Times best-selling author and ground-breaking physicist Dr. Michio Kaku.
“Scientists and science writers have a monumental task: making science exciting and relevant to the average person, so that they care,” writes renowned American physicist Michio Kaku. “If we fail in this endeavor, then we must face
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 337 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement--quantum computing--which may eventually unravel the deepest mysteries of science and solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, by the bestselling author of The God Equation. The runaway success of the microchip processor may be reaching its end. Running up against the physical constraints of smaller and smaller sizes,...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xx, 339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Formerly the domain of fiction, moving human civilization to the stars is increasingly becoming a scientific possibility--and a necessity. Whether in the near future due to climate change and the depletion of finite resources, or in the distant future due to catastrophic cosmological events, we must face the reality that humans will one day need to leave planet Earth to survive as a species. World-renowned physicist and futurist Michio Kaku explores...
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Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2014
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (15.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
-- The New York Times Book Review The Future of the Mind The Future of the Mind is an extraordinary, mind-boggling exploration of the frontiers of neuroscience. Dr. Kaku looks toward the day when we may achieve the ability to upload the human brain to a computer, neuron for neuron; project thoughts and emotions around the world on a brain-net; take a “smart pill” to enhance cognition; send our consciousness across the universe; and push the very...
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Language
English
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Are there other dimensions beyond our own? Is time travel possible? Can we change the past? Are there gateways to parallel universes? All of us have pondered such questions, but there was a time when scientists dismissed these notions as outlandish speculations. Not any more. Today, they are the focus of the most intense scientific activity in recent memory. In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku offers the first book-length tour of the most exciting (and perhaps...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
ix, 225 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"Michio Kaku, renowned theoretical physicist and author of Hyperspace and The Future of Humanity, tells the story of the greatest quest in science. When Newton discovered the laws of motion and gravity, he unified the rules of heaven and earth. From then on, physicists have been discovering new forces and incorporating them into ever-greater theories. But the major breakthroughs of the 20th century--relativity and quantum mechanics--are incompatible,...
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English
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A riveting look at the climate change solution no one is talking about: hydrogen. The universe's most abundant element, hydrogen is the answer to sustainable clean energy that can power vehicles, homes, factories and entire cities. Yet the renewable community's narrative continues to revolve around batteries in spite of its limitations. Director John Michael Parkan explores the potential of a hydrogen fuel cell future, from the early days of the Clinton...