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A fabric of space that can ripple and tear gives a picture of time as a stretchy sheet. Kaku explains that physics lets us predict future tech, that black holes can rip the fabric of space‑time, and that time travel is turning from fantasy into an engineering challenge.

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In the future, the Internet might become a 'brain net' where we send memories, feelings and sensations.

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A lot of the things you see in science fiction revolve around black holes because black holes are strong enough to rip…

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In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

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We're in 'Jurassic Park' territory. If we go to the zoo in the future, we'll have zoos for extinct animals.

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In the future we'll be able to mentally contact anybody we want, see whatever image we want. And when we don't like…

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We do spend too much time on the telephone, and you know something? We love it.

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I'm not a science fiction writer, I'm a physicist. These are scientists who are making the future in their laboratories.

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Once confined to fantasy and science fiction, time travel is now simply an engineering problem.

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Scientists who have dedicated their lives to building machines that think, feel that it's only a matter of time before some form…

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Physics is often stranger than science fiction, and I think science fiction takes its cues from physics: higher dimensions, wormholes, the warping…

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Cancer is like the common cold; there are so many different types. In the future we'll still have cancer, but we'll detect…

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Originally, the burden of proof was on physicists to prove that time travel was possible. Now the burden of proof is on…

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The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for…

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I began to realize something - to understand the future you have to understand physics. Physics of the last century gave us…

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I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-matter, higher dimensions…

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The river of time may fork into rivers, in which case you have a parallel reality and so then you can become…

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Physicists often quote from T. H. White's epic novel The Once and Future King, where a society of ants declares, "Everything not…

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When you look at the calculation, it's amazing that every time you try to prove or disprove time travel, you've pushed Einstein's…

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“Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same…

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“Studies have shown that retaining memories can be improved by getting sufficient sleep between the time of activity and a test. Neuroimaging…

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“If we can somehow control the probability of certain improbable events, then anything, including faster-than-light travel, and even time travel, is possible.…

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Modern thinking is that time did not start with the big bang, and that there was a multiverse even before the big…

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“most religions adhere to some form of determinism and predestination. Since God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent, He knows the future, and…

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I get paid to do what I love. If you understand physics, the foundation of the atomic theory and relativity, you understand…

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“Recent brain scans have shed light on how the brain simulates the future. These simulation are done mainly in the dorsolateral prefrontal…

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“(The string is extremely tiny, at the Planck length of 10 ^-33 cm, a billion billion times smaller than a proton, so…

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“This means that, in some sense, free will is a fake. Decisions are made ahead of time by the brain, without the…

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“For any reasonable value of Omega at the beginning of time, Einstein’s equations show that it should almost be zero today. For…

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“Inflation is continuous and eternal, with big bangs happening all the time, with universes sprouting from other universes. In this picture, universes…

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“Something as superfluous as "play" is also an essential feature of our consciousness. If you ask children why they like to play,…

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In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since…

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Consciousness, there are about 20,000 papers on consciousness with no consensus. Nowhere in history have so many people devoted so much time…

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Technologies that may be realized in centuries or millennium include: warp drive, traveling faster than the speed of light, parallel universes; are…

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“(However, animals apparently dream differently than we do. In the dolphin, for example, only one hemisphere at a time sleeps in order…

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If space is a fabric, then of course fabrics can have ripples, which we have now seen directly. But fabrics can also…

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In the future, you'll simply jump into your car, turn on the Internet, turn on a movie and sit back and relax…

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When I get bored, or get stuck on an equation, I like to go ice skating, but it makes you forget your…

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Some people are a little bit afraid about the future because they see all these gadgets and gizmos coming down the pike…

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You see, I'm also a futurist. I dream about the world 50, 100, maybe even 1,000 years in the future. But I…

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In Einstein's equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have…

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The idea that excites me the most concerns the two greatest puzzles in science: the origin of the universe, and the origin of consciousness.…