Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension

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Summary: A New Way of Thinking About the World
Review: I read this book a couple of years ago, and it blew my mind. Unfortunately, I lent it to a friend who never returned it (she probably was too engrossed in it). It was always in my mind, and when I came across it last week, I bought one for myself and one as a present for my girlfriend's mom. Since then, I have been thoroughly absorbing every page eagerly. It truly is amazing when words can fuel the mind to imagine the unimaginable. It is a must read for anyone who likes explore new ideas

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Summary: Definatly for the science lover
Review: Have you ever heard about a book that sounded so good, you couldn't get it out of your mind? Well, a year after hearing an interview with Dr. Kaku on National Public Radios "Fresh Air", Hyperspace was still on my mind. The good doctor combines science and his own personality to deliver a book that most persons of average or above intelligence can understand. I've read several books that deal with "String Theory", etc that you have to force yourselve through sections. This is anything but true for Hyperspace. My favorite part? He describes the states matter pass thru, using a pressure cooker in your kitchen

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Summary: A superb introduction to hyper-dimensional physics
Review: In Hyperspace, Michio Kaku describes with great clarity how the laws of physics become simpler in higher dimensions. Specifically, he shows how matrices can be used instead of more traditional methods of expressing physical theories. The book is well written, not too serious as to be boring, and succeeds in driving home the authors view that the laws of physics will one day be unified in a simple multi-dimensional theory. Jacob Martin - studen

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Summary: I absorbed in about 3 weeks (reading between classes)
Review: I maybe 14 years old, but I understood everthing. From super strings to (my favorite) hypercubes. This book further my intrests in theoretical physics and led to my own theory about the hypercube. The detail was not what I expected and the book was also pretty easy to read. I enjoyed it

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Summary: Arrogance of the Modern Man
Review: Clearly written, but I found two things irritating: (1.) author brags about himself (2.) author discusses how we can escape not so much the end of the world, but, mind you, the end of the UNIVERSE in billions of years' time! Excuse me? Sounds to me like the ultimate in greed for life and the hubris of modern man. Like liberal scientific people, he may think of himself as more enlightened than the low-class masses who may believe in God. However, apparently, he is not enlightened enough not to have this bottomless pit of a greed for human life, which is in the end true foolishness. Among some people in the modern world, there is little humility, little thought that afterall, we are just another animal, so why should we have the capacity to understand everything

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Summary: This book blew my mind!
Review: Shortly after reading this book, I found myself floating somewhere in the 10th dimension, aligned with the substratum of a high-energy degenerative particle consciousness that was rivaled only by my alarm clock

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Summary: Interesting Implications
Review: I am an astrophysicist in a university (which shall remain unnamed). I have long wondered what there is out there in space. Many of my esteemed collegues believe that the universe has an "edge," if you will. That, at some point, the universe stops, and there is nothing. It's more or less hard to comprehend, really, because many people think that at the egde of the universe, when molecules and time stop, there must be black. Well, there isn't. There isn't anything. What is out at those far reaches will never be known, because it isn't there. As far as travel through parelell universes go, you would have to figure out some way to move through this nothingness. Personally, I think it's impossible in more ways than one (since matter in nothingness is in efect nothing). If some sort of equation were to be made, that would help us pass interdemensionally through use of technology, well, then who knows what can happen. You need a man with a large brain for this one, for we are only beggining to understand and comprehend

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Summary: Polish encounter
Review: I think this book hit our market just in time. There was no other so completly covering subjects of contemporary phisics, ranging so wide and still being readable for common people. As a person having computer science and humanist education I'd be willing to recomend it to everybody who wants to know what is nowadays phisics allabout.

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Summary: The best book on the subject
Review: It is one of the best book I read about the advanced concepts in physics. It is very nicely written. Author has tryed his best to explain the most complicated theories of our time. I will recommend everybody to read this book. Anil Bohora

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Summary: A great book for anyone interested in science!
Review: Hyperspace, by Michio Kaku, is a wonderful explanation of some of the basic and more advanced topics in physics. I found his book to be easily understood and full of personality that kept it from being boring. I recommend this book to anybody who would like to learn more about physics.