dr kaku welcome. glad to be on the show thank you very much i'm very very glad to have you with us i understand that when you were eight years old you had an a with an a that's hard to do on this . that's right some people remember the instant that princess diana died i remember the instant when albert einstein guy it was in all the newspapers everyone was talking about the fact that he could not finish his greatest work it was to be the theory of everything an equation one inch long which would allow was to cold read the mind of god one theory which would describe everything from the big bang formation of the stars the galaxy people maybe even love and i said to myself that's for me that's what i want to finish a unified field theory and then with this string theory my recollection it's been some years of american action is that the the original objection or problem with it was that it required a time to mention a multiverse or universe ahead. if if you can translate that into english and tell us how

future how science will shape human destiny and our daily lives whether you're twenty one hundred dr kaku you in your book i'm looking at page two nineteen here you have me begins a rather lengthy discussion of nuclear fission and you know the different ways that you two thirty eight is separated from future thirty five years and what we have just seen in japan. the consequence. i guess for the third arguably for the third time in a big way of our experimentation with what some would suggest is something beyond our our ability to deal with what's what is your take on what has happened that. we have to realize that what engineers plan for the future they very rarely plan for the once in a century ago and it's not going to happen in their lifetime it's not going to happen in their children's lifetime but hey sometimes it happens even if you don't plan for it look at katrina that hurricane the devastated new orleans was not supposed to happen for one hundred years and if you go back up. thousand years we had almost the identical tsunami and earthquake that ravaged northern japan but that was

dr. michio kaku, who is with us tonight. good to see you, doctor.ou have to go to the backup to the backup -- that doesn't sound good. >> not g gd at all. we just dodged the bullet on this one. there are four backup pumps. one of them is out. if all four go out, you are on the road to a full-scale meltdown. that's what happened in japan. all the backup pumps went out, batteries went out. then you're dead in the water and then the core gets exposed. >> all right. let me ask you about what i know our viewers on the west coast are probably thinking, because they go through a lot of quakes, some of them bigger than this. are they right to say, hey, guys, this is not so big. >> there's a diffefence between west coast and east coast earthquakes. the west coast is very fragmented. look at this. the fault lines are like this, so, when an earthquake fault moves or shifts, the energy is localized. therefore, the damage is concentrated. >> so one shifts but not everything shifts. >> that's right. it's localized. >> and then, you were saying, on the east coast

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