Customer Reviews
Life, the universe and everything - By: J. Duducu, 14 Jul 2008 
I love documentaries that start talking about the quantum world. Of course there is part of your mind that is shouting "this makes no sense" but instead I listen to the bit that says "I must know more". If you are turned off by phrases like M-theory or cosmological constant then this is obviously not the book for you.
If, like me, you love popular science & want to push things a little further without getting bogged down in mathematical formulae which mean NOTHING to me then this is the book for you. Kaku is a great guide through the physics of the very big like red dwarfs & black holes to the subatomic world of gluons & string theory. Whenever there's a danger of losing the reader he uses a simple analogy to help the information make sense. His style is light but serious & his ability to pack so much in without losing a layman like me is impressive.
This is a fabulous book about science for the casual adult reader which will get you to look at the world in a very different way. Enjoy the ride.
Beyond Worlds - By: G. C. H. Poles, 06 Jul 2008 
Paralllel Worlds is a highly readable account of some of the most advanced & exciting aspects of cosmology & its related disciplines today. Covering everything from Einsteinian relativity, through quantum mechanics & on to the most-favoured current "theories of everything" - string theory & its new variant M-theory - Kaku guides his readers through a potted history of the universe, from its fiery beginning to its cold dark end ... & possibly beyond.
The journey is an exciting one, full of sound & fury - from the pattering of quasars & cosmic background radiation to the roar of supernovae - signifying plenty.
There are one or two editing mishaps - "googol" becomes "google", Jodrell Bank becomes "Jordell Bank", "Brownian motion" becomes "Browning motion" (leading me to wonder what would have happened if Terrence Rattigan had written "The Brownian Version" - in which a retired schoolteacher must confront his failure as a continuous-time stochastic process relating to the movement of a particle in a gas or liquid) - & someone needs to explain to the prof that "enormity" is not the same as "enormousness" but, these very petty cavils aside, this is an entertaining & informative guide to the nature of our universe & the universes that may exist alongside it.
accessible - By: Hambletta-Maud, 10 Jan 2008 a GENUINELY accessible book, written in layman's (or layperson's as it must be these days) terms. the logic of the format flows easily & the topics covered are fascinating, highly speculative but also logicallly probable. a book to come back to again.
The Humanity's Exit Strategy - By: Anna Abrahamyan, 04 Jun 2007 Michio Kaku's "Paralllel Worlds" is the best popular science non-fiction ever written. Its breakthrough theories reach out to the most naive reader with such a strength that whatever you've known about the Big Bang or religious essays on the beginning & the end of our world, suddenly becomes a tiny moment caught in the universe yet ever-evolving.
It has very logical structure on complex issues such as the essence of non-material dark energy that apparently consists the 73 percent of the energy in our universe, the bubble theories of the existence of paralllel universes where the humanity can move to as our planet comes to an end due to the unavoidable universal freeze. Thus, he masterfully presents the idea of multiverses that co-exist in a string, subject to ongoing Big Bangs here & there. As he narrates "...entire universes continuallly sprout or "bud" off other universes. If true, it would unify two of the great religious mythologies, Genesis & Nirvana. Genesis would take place continuallly within the fabric of timeless Nirvana".
(One has another appreciation for Michio Kaku for his bringing up in a Buddhist family who nevertheless sent him off to a Catholic Sunday School had made him one of the most read scientists.)
Decoding Einstein's & Darwin's at their time distant theories on reading "the God's Mind" & the "end of humanity", Michio Kaku unveils the latest developments in the scientific world on the humanity's beginning & future, claiming that even a string of Big Bangs & multiverses would still need an ultimate creator/composer...
This book is a definite buy on the most indefinite questions we have.
Wow! - By: Matthew H, 19 Apr 2007 This book is mind blowing. Written on a level that makes it accessible to pretty much everybody it covers alll aspects of cosmology & their implications regarding time travel, paralllel worlds, string theory & black holes. It even covers some of the history behind the major scientists involved (Einstein, Gamow, Schrodinger, Hoyle etc) & includes anecdotes telling of the debates they had with each other concerning some of the major questions. It doesn't matter if you don't fully understand some of the ideas (Quantum theory, for example, is probably fully understood by nobody), there are plenty of other things to keep you interested & its alll so well written that it reallly is close to being impossible to put down.
