Floating University — April 22, 2015

WATCH: A Universe in a Nutshell — The Physics of Everything, with Michio Kaku

Professor Michio Kaku delivers a glimpse of where science will take us in the next hundred years, as warp drives, teleportation, and time travel converge with our scientific understanding.

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The Floating University has docked permanently at Big Think. This is the fourth video in our amazing 12-part series that offers the foundations of a college education in subjects ranging from art history, to finance, to physics, to psychology — all delivered by America’s leading thinkers and all for free.

In this discussion, professor Michio Kaku delivers a glimpse of where science will take us in the next hundred years, as warp drives, teleportation, inter-dimensional wormholes, and even time travel converge with our scientific understanding of physical reality. While firing up our imaginations about the future, he also presents a succinct history of physics to the present.

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