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A review by alexandrapaul
Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension by Robert O'Keefe, Michio Kaku
3.0
I thought this books was just okay.
The topic of hyperspace and physics is extremely interesting to me and I thought that Kaku did a pretty good job of explaining it in the first part of the book. However as the book went on, he introduced a bunch of different theoretical concepts that are difficult to understand if you don’t really know anything about physics, and I had trouble seeing how they were connected to the idea of hyperspace.
This book is well written, and you can tell that Kaku knows what he is talking about, but I found after awhile that reading this started to feel a bit tedious because the explanations were very science heavy and I didn’t really know what was going on (although this may be my own problem as I have never done well in math or physics classes - I knew going into the book that I would likely not grasp everything but thought I’d try it anyway because I was interested).
Even though I kind of had to power through to finish this book, I would not describe it as boring because some of the anecdotes (especially at the end about wormholes and space travel) are interesting. Overall, this book may be more suited for people who have a better understanding of physics to begin with, but it definitely made me want to learn more about current developments in science and made me think about the universe which is always a good thing.
The topic of hyperspace and physics is extremely interesting to me and I thought that Kaku did a pretty good job of explaining it in the first part of the book. However as the book went on, he introduced a bunch of different theoretical concepts that are difficult to understand if you don’t really know anything about physics, and I had trouble seeing how they were connected to the idea of hyperspace.
This book is well written, and you can tell that Kaku knows what he is talking about, but I found after awhile that reading this started to feel a bit tedious because the explanations were very science heavy and I didn’t really know what was going on (although this may be my own problem as I have never done well in math or physics classes - I knew going into the book that I would likely not grasp everything but thought I’d try it anyway because I was interested).
Even though I kind of had to power through to finish this book, I would not describe it as boring because some of the anecdotes (especially at the end about wormholes and space travel) are interesting. Overall, this book may be more suited for people who have a better understanding of physics to begin with, but it definitely made me want to learn more about current developments in science and made me think about the universe which is always a good thing.