When the eight-year-old Kaku (who, by the way, went on to dismay his mother by building a particle collider in the family garage in San Jose for a school science project) found nothing in the library that could explain Einstein’s theory to a child, he turned to science fiction. An equation perhaps no more than one inch long that would allow us to “read the mind of God”. And that book was to be the theory of everything. What was in it? Well, the man’s name was Albert Einstein. And so I looked up who was this man who could not finish this book. And they said that on his desk was a manuscript that he could not finish. ‘All the newspapers said that a great scientist had died. ‘It all started when I was eight,’ he says. That’s apt for someone who grew up worshipping at the twin altars of Albert Einstein and Flash Gordon. In books such as Physics of the Impossible, Physics of the Future and Parallel Worlds, Kaku combines the scientific chops of the theoretical physics professor he is with the gee-wow wonder of a sci-fi geek. If you’ve ever wondered how an invisibility cloak would work, how to terraform Mars, how to make a forcefield, whether we’re living in a Matrix-like simulation or how far we are from a working teleportation device, Michio Kaku is your man.
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