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Summary: an amazing scientific read
Review: D.r kaku unwraps the mysteries of the most modern theoretical theories. he takes trough black holes and trough time. showing us the potential for humanity in the stars.
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Summary: An AWESOME book for civilians!
Review: I first read this book as a sophomore in high school with no more physics and/or math background sophomore chemistry and algebra, and I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN! In "Hyperspace" Michio Kaku explains in terms anyone can understand the concepts and ideas that are drive theoretical physics in our time. He includes just enough history to fill the reader in, and uses entertaining pictures, stories, and analogies to captivate his readers. If you have even the slightest interest in ten-dimensional space, black holes, or the origins of the universe, READ THIS BOOK!
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Summary: A tour of weird worlds and multidimensional propaganda
Review: It almost looks open-minded. Michio Kaku has pulled off a superb piece of multidimensional propaganda for a ``state-of-the-art`` academic ``science`` in urgent dead need for inflationary public expansion. It is such a clever and underhanded way of acknowledging, but dismissing, the original fidings of the pioneers of radio and TV who more than proved survival after death and tried (unsuccessfully), to formalize their findings in a multidimensional theoretical context. Kaku is (honestly!), a very good and kind guy (he replied very enthusiastically to one of my e-mails!), but in my view he is being grossly used by the shadowy high priests of an academic dogmatism that still refuses to die. .-Conrado Salas
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Summary: Abstract that gets close to identify a theory of everything
Review: Mr. Kaku express in an easy way concepts that everybody should be aware. This book should be translated in all languages and should be recomended his reading in School. Once you understand how super minds have made their discoveries, more than one will jump in this facinating world of misteries.
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Summary: Simply the best of its kind !
Review: For those with basic knowledge in physic, this is really what you need to start.Trust me, I've read tons of books from Paul Davies, John Gribben, Martin Rees, others ... but it's too difficult to comprehend. It covers most if not all the basic stuffs that you need to know. Not only that it was very well written, it was also structured just like any other good novel. A must have for physic lover !
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Summary: Another worthless pop-physics book
Review: If you want to be able to chat about neat physics ideas at a cocktail party and feel like you are really having an intelligent conversation about cosmology and Physics, read this book. If you want to really understand something, pick up a college physics textbook- I would recommend Feynman's Lectures. I strongly agree with a previous reviewer that this is one of those books that while you read it, you think you have learned something when you really have not- thats the problem with analogy- it always gets bogged down in philosophy rather than real science. String Theory now more than ever seems incapable of being proven, so it is a useless theory... it seems like many string theorists have realized this fact, so they have turned to writing books and coming up with lots of analogies to explain the inexplicable... Without the experimental proof, this theory continues to be elegant science fiction. P.S. I am an Applied Physics grad. student in case your curious about my background
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Summary: Lacks substance
Review: Scanning the reviews of "Hyperspace" I see that many want to give this book five stars. I find myself in the 1- and 2-star minority. "Hyperspace" is the kind of book that makes people think they've learned something without actually having done so. This is the problem with "learning" by analogy. The presentation of many -- perhaps most -- of the concepts covered in this book might help one learn to talk about them, but not to actually understand them. Analogy goes only so far. Experiment is the crucible and if you don't explain the experimental and theoretical basis for results, then you have taught nothing. This is a flaw of much science writing (e.g. the second half of "A Brief History of Time"). "Hyperspace" started out interestingly enough, but the farther it went, the more it lost its bearings. A sense of wonder is a fine stimulus, but science is more than a word game of analogies. I read the whole thing, but the time I spent reading it felt wasted.
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Summary: Fun to read and easy to understand-and I'm only 14
Review: I'm only 14, but this book is so well written that not only am I able to figure out the harder concepts, but I'm actually able to understand what Mr. Kaku is talking about. For the past few years I have thoroughly enjoyed learning everything I can about the evolution of physics, and this book sums many of the important issues into one. I can't wait to buy another one of Michio's books, and I greatly encourage anyone interested in this field to atleast check this book out.
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Summary: Good treatment of a difficult topic
Review: Yes, the material is pretty complex, but this does a pretty good job of explaining his side (now, what about the other side?)
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Summary: Outstanding book
Review: I found it hard to put down this book, I have read it multiple times. It is well written with great analogies that make it good for both scientific minded people, and people who have trouble understanding science.
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