and we're back with dr michio kaku dr kaku here brought up quantum physics talk to me about it because i was too complicated for me to grasp all that it's about there's one thing that i think i understand about it and that is that a wave becomes a particle when observed and when it is observed it's a wave of possibilities so my friends my mystic friends what they coude their out of it is that observations and the power of mind can actually shape the world around you basically you think of something and you visualize it and that comes true what do you make out of it is this how it works well the greatest paradox in all of science that really in caps allays what we're talking about is called the cat problem the short and your cat problem if i put a cat in a box and connect the cat to a gun and the gun is connected to your rainy i'm your rhenium is a quantum mechanical thing it radiates radiation quantum mechanically it sets off the gun which then kills the cat so the question is if you put everything in a box and you can't look at it is the cat dead or alive well we physicists say that y

meteorologist michio kaku is responsible for determining what impact global warming might already be having on the antarctic atmosphere. for his research he collects data that include wind speed solar radiation and the reflective properties of the ice crust. german scientists have been taking such measurements in the antarctic since the early 1980 s. . these reports are sent to the un's intergovernmental panel on climate change. then geo. speaking and when we talk about climate and we have to look at data over a period of at least 30 years. one year's worth of information simply isn't enough . i can just. hear michelle is getting ready to launch a weather balloon it goes up every morning at 11 o'clock and measures air temperature and the density of the ozone layer to an altitude of up to 30 kilometers. michelle says that so far his data show no evidence of global warming at this specific spot. starts on. messing me up somebody should be at the station we haven't recorded any changes in temperature fifita vitae many other research stations in antarctica haven't either . but there has

dr michio kaku thank you very much for being with us today on this program and so glad to measure. so lots to talk about because for us you're one of the greatest minds of our times you know when i think about it every day there are new there are small scale discoveries that again for years there hasn't been like and major breakthrough in physics and that would help us in general understanding of how the world works what does it really mean does it mean that we've reached the borderline of what a man can actually discover about the physics of the world. no i think that we're just beginning to probe the mysteries of the universe the nobel prize was good recently for the discovery of gravity waves and we hope to put a gravity wave detectors in outer space a new kind of telescope a gravity telescope think about it all telescopes today use light now we use radio to peer into black holes next will be gravity telescopes that will allow us to peer inside a black hole at the instant of creation itself and so we're going to begin a new realm of astronomy with gravity wave detectors starting