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A review by savaging
Hyperspace by Michio Kaku
3.0
Yeah pop physics books! This was one of the first books written on superstring theory for a lay audience. Though it was written in the 90s, if you add one more dimension to make it eleven, the fundamentals still hold (as far as I can tell, but my brain's only three dimensions after all).
Two quibbles:
1) The author could have cut out some sections, which seemed redundant and served more to increase book length than to explain.
2) Physicists, who are careful to allow incredible complexity and nuance in the physical world, write about the human social world like it's obvious, simple, and heading toward some clear goal. When Kaku writes about our likely future, I find his ideas both naive and unimaginative.
Two quibbles:
1) The author could have cut out some sections, which seemed redundant and served more to increase book length than to explain.
2) Physicists, who are careful to allow incredible complexity and nuance in the physical world, write about the human social world like it's obvious, simple, and heading toward some clear goal. When Kaku writes about our likely future, I find his ideas both naive and unimaginative.