Michio Kaku is a Japanese American physicist. Educated at Harvard and Berkeley. Taught at Princeton. Teaches at City Univeristy of New York.
HERE’S AN INTERESTING (IF LONG) ARTICLE BY HIM.
In the article, he says a number of interesting things (excerpts):
The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually
all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze.
In 1998, astronomers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
the Australian National University calculated the expansion rate by
studying dozens of powerful supernova explosions within distant
galaxies, which can light up the entire universe. They could not
believe their own data. Some unknown force was pushing the galaxies
apart, causing the expansion of the universe to accelerate. Brian
Schmidt, one of the group leaders, said, "I was still shaking my head,
but we had checked everything… I was very reluctant to tell people,
because I truly thought that we were going to get massacred."
Physicists
went scrambling back to their blackboards and realised that some "dark
energy" of unknown origin, akin to Einstein’s "cosmological constant,"
was acting as an anti-gravity force. Apparently, empty space itself
contains enough repulsive dark energy to blow the universe apart. The
more the universe expands, the more dark energy there is to make it
expand even faster, leading to an exponential runaway mode.
In
2003, this astonishing result was confirmed by the WMAP (Wilkinson
microwave anisotropy probe) satellite. Orbiting at a million miles from
earth, this satellite contains two telescopes capable of detecting the
faint microwave radiation which bathes the universe. It is so sensitive
that it is able to photograph in exquisite detail the afterglow of the
microwave radiation left over from the big bang, which is still
circulating the universe. The WMAP satellite, in effect, gave us "baby
pictures" of the universe when it was a mere 380,000 years old.
The
WMAP satellite settled the long-standing question of the age of the
universe: it is officially 13.7bn years old (to within 1 per cent
accuracy). But more remarkably, the data showed that dark energy is not
a fluke, but makes up 73 per cent of the matter and energy of the
entire universe. To deepen the mystery, the data showed that 23 per
cent of the universe consists of "dark matter," a bizarre form of
matter which is invisible but still has weight. Hydrogen and helium
make up 4 per cent, while the higher elements, you and I included, make
up just 0.03 per cent. Dark energy and most of dark matter do not
consist of atoms, which means that, contrary to what the ancient Greeks
believed and what is taught in every chemistry course, most of the
universe is not made of atoms at all.
At the University of Colorado in Denver, the first experiment was
conducted to search for the presence of a parallel universe, perhaps
only a millimetre away.
Other avenues are also being explored. In 2007, the large hadron
collider (LHC), capable of blasting subatomic particles with a colossal
energy of 14 trillion electron volts (10 trillion times the energy
found in a typical chemical reaction) will be turned on outside Geneva.
The world’s largest atom smasher, this huge machine, 27km in
circumference, straddling the French-Swiss border, will probe into
places 10,000 times smaller than a proton. Physicists expect to find an
entire zoo of new subatomic particles not seen since the big bang.
Physicists
predict that the LHC may create exotic particles like mini-black holes
and supersymmetric particles, dubbed "sparticles," which would provide
indirect evidence for string theory. In string theory, every particle
has a super-partner. The partner of the electron is the "selectron,"
the partner of the quark is the "squark," and so on.
Furthermore,
around 2012, the space-based gravity wave detector Lisa (laser
interferometer space antenna) will be sent into orbit. Lisa will be
able to detect the gravitational shockwaves emitted less than a
trillionth of a second after the big bang. It will consist of three
satellites circling the sun, connected by laser beams, making a huge
triangle in space 5m km on each side. Any gravitational wave which
strikes Lisa will disturb the lasers, and this tiny distortion will be
picked up by instruments, signalling the collision of two black holes
or the big bang aftershock itself. Lisa is so sensitive—it can measure
distortions a tenth the diameter of an atom—that it may be able to test
many of the scenarios being proposed for the pre-big bang universe,
including string theory.
Why is Kaku mentioning all these things?
Because our universe is doomed.
The main subject of his article is how–in a way consistent with the currently known laws of physics and biology–a civilization might be able to escape this universe before the Big Freeze and go to a new universe, finding a new heaven and a new earth.
Of course, Christians are already planning on this.
God just won’t be using technological means to do it.
(THEOLOGICAL NOTE: Technically, the prophecy of the eschatological new heaven and a new earth might not refer to a literally new universe but to a massive renovation of the present universe such that it is able to exist indefinitely.)
Still, Kaku’s article has a lot of neat sci-fi ideas that no earthlings besides sci-fi authors will be able to fully follow up on.
Don’t let Sparticles stage a rebellion.
I always held the believe that sin caused entropy which causing all of the above. When sin is eradicated then there’s no entropy and the universe will be perfect again. Altough I don’t know if I wanna be in the universe if I get a chance to be in Heaven.
No! *I’m* Sparticles!
Careful Sparticles!
The quarks will squark on you.
In 2007, the LHC created a micro black hole. Two years later, scientists notice that earth tremor frequency is increasing, than most of it appears to be coming from the inner core/outer core interface.
In 2010, our probes showed Sol orbiting an invisible object where the Earth-Moon system ought to have been, shortly before their signals red-shifted beyond detection.
I thought Dark Matter was that crud that collects on the rollers inside my mouse. Comes right off with a cotton swab and some al-kee-hol.
Quick! Call NASA!!!