Hyperspace

A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension

By: Michio Kaku

Narrated by: Tim Lounibos

Length: 14 hrs and 12 mins

Publisher's summary

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 most bizarre) work in modern physics.

The theory of hyperspace (or higher dimensional space)—and its newest wrinkle, superstring theory—stand at the center of this revolution, with adherents in every major research laboratory in the world. Beginning where Hawking's Brief History of Time left off, Kaku paints a vivid portrayal of the breakthroughs now rocking the physics establishment. Why all the excitement? As the author points out, for over half a century, scientists have puzzled over why the basic forces of the cosmos—gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces—require markedly different mathematical descriptions. But if we see these forces as vibrations in a higher dimensional space, their field equations suddenly fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, perfectly snug, in an elegant, astonishingly simple form. This may thus be our leading candidate for the Theory of Everything.

©1994 Michio Kaku (P)2023 HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books

I always love his books

Spoke was very well written and had many interesting points I had never considered before

Very Interesting

I like the book. But, should the audiobook come with a PDF charts or something.

How well the concepts were explained.

I love Michios books. I've read every one except the one about Einstein. Always a great read or in this case, audio book.

One of Kaku's Best Works!

I first read this book nearly 25 years ago and had my mind blown. It helped to spark a lifelong interest in physics, math, and their ultimate intersection with philosophy. This book, despite many of the recent developments in physics, is still worth a listen. There is an excellent discussion of how higher dimensions were regarded from ancient to modern times and the difficulty of reconciling gravity with quantum mechanics--a problem still with us.

If you like Kaku, don't even hesitate to add this one to cart. The one minus is the publisher did not make the many illustrations available via PDF. I have a print copy of the book, so I can thumb through that to refresh my memory, but a bit of a miss by the publisher.

A Grand Tour of the History of Physics

I'll admit up front that I only understood about 2/3rds of this book (I still don't understand what the "wave function of the Universe" means) but overall I found this eye-opening and really engaging. The narration, which is not done by Dr. Kaku, keeps the information interesting and entertaining. Though dated, it's still worth reading.

is there nothing really interesting to talk about in higher-dimensional physics?

A collection of disjointed stories and trivias, which are only LOOSELY connected to string theory. I was interested in learning string theory, or some physics, as a layman. I learned nothing after listening to 10 hours of this book, with no focus, waiting and waiting for something real until the end. I am very disappointed. A self-proclaimed expert and advocate of string theory seemed have nothing really interesting to talk about the high dimensional physics. Makes me wonder. Why bother? 🙄

A Lehman’s way of explaining the complicated.

I liked everything about concepts of physics and reality. Well structured. Easy to follow. Nothing I couldn’t understand.