Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos Audiobook (Free) | AudioBooksLoft

Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos Audiobook (Free)

Summary:

Is our universe dying?

Could there end up being other universes?

In Parallel Worlds, world-renowned physicist and bestselling author Michio Kaku—an author who “has a knack for bringing the most ethereal ideas down to earth” (Wall structure Road Journal)—takes readers on a remarkable tour of cosmology, M-theory, and its own implications for the fate from the universe.

In his 1st book of physics since Hyperspace, Michio Kaku begins by describing the remarkable advances that have transformed cosmology on the about Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos last century, and particularly during the last decade, forcing scientists around the world to rethink our knowledge of the birth of the universe, and its own ultimate fate. In Dr. Kaku’s eyes, we are living in a golden age group of physics, as new discoveries from the WMAP and COBE satellites and the Hubble space telescope have given us unparalleled images of our universe in its infancy.

As astronomers wade through the avalanche of data from your WMAP satellite, a new cosmological picture is emerging. Up to now, the leading theory about the delivery of the world may be the “inflationary world theory,” a major refinement on the big bang theory. With this theory, our universe could be but one inside a multiverse, floating such as a bubble in an infinite ocean of bubble universes, with brand-new universes being developed on a regular basis. A parallel world may well hover a mere millimeter from our own.

The very notion of parallel universes as well as the string theory that may explain their existence was once viewed with suspicion by scientists, seen as the province of mystics, charlatans, and cranks. But today, physicists overwhelmingly support string-theory, and its latest iteration, M-theory, since it is that one theory that, if confirmed correct, would reconcile the four forces of the universe just and elegantly, and answer the question “What happened before the big bang?”

Already, Kaku explains, the world’s most important physicists and astronomers are trying to find ways to test the theory of the multiverse using highly sophisticated wave detectors, gravity lenses, satellites, and telescopes. The implications of M-theory are fascinating and unlimited. If parallel worlds do can be found, Kaku speculates, with time, maybe a trillion years or even more from now, as appears likely, when our universe grows chilly and dark in what scientists describe like a big freeze, advanced civilizations may find a way to flee our world in some sort of “inter-dimensional lifeboat.”

An unforgettable journey into black openings and time machines, alternate universes, and multidimensional space, Parallel Worlds gives us a compelling family portrait of the trend sweeping the globe of cosmology.