The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything

This was a excellent book. I find the title to be somewhat misleading, but it does fit. The book goes through the history of physics and all of the mathematical discoveries that have lead to string theory and how they all fit together. It is very fascinating to learn the history of all of physics and how all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together by some of the greatest physicists. The author also talks about how it cannot be proven and is not definitive, but mathematically it is the best solution we currently have. Very good book.

I thank you Mr. Kaku for sharing your knowledge and special insight into the world of physics. Not a math major myself so the information was shared in a wonderful way that I could understand and now I will look at some of those equations to increase my mathematical understanding. Sincere best wishes and hopefully many more books to come.

Michio Kaku is a renowned theoretical physicist and an excellent popularizer of science and especially physics. I love reading his books including this one. If you have read his other books you will not find much new in this book. On the other hand, it is an easy to read summary of physics, the history of physics, quantum physics and eventually string theory. The focus is on the search for the theory of everything or as some call it “the God Equation”.I found chapter 6 (there are 7 chapters) “Rise of String Theory Promise and Problems” to be very enlightening and honest. He explains string theory very well in layman’s terms and gives us the truth about the hype and the disappointments but also hope regarding where string theory and M-theory might take us. He gives us his view of the promises of string theory and he explains why we should not write it off just because it is difficult to experimentally verify. He convinced me, but it may take time before we will know whether string theory is the path forward.His explanations are lucid, modest and it was a fun read. However, personally I was expecting something a little bit “deeper”, and I don’t think it is his best book, so not five stars from me, but I still enjoyed it.

This is my absolute favorite book! Not only does world renowned physicist Michio Kaku mention what the purpose of the God Equation is but also how we can get there and what human kind has already done. This book gives me hope that we will find the solution at some point. This is also fairly easy to read if you don’t understand the topic that well. Totally recommend!

I get a kick out of the reviewers who complain this book is just a rehash of the history of modern physics. Really? All we have is history. But it's not just that. His examination of string theory is historical but also cutting edge, concise and to the point. Alas, that too is just "history." LOL. This book is a wonderful treatment of the current state of physics, aimed at the layman/laywoman with interest in popular treatments of science. I've read about the history of physics many times before. This is one of the best.

Extraordinario, es imaginar como piensa Dios

As usual, KAKU doesn’t disappoint explaining the most complex to a palatable understanding of what makes the universe tick. His philosophy on the meaning of life blends in with the theories of physics. You won’t become God’s drinking buddy or a Nobel candidate. But you will get bragging rights with those cocktails in cafe society. Very enjoyable book for us mortals.

Kaku details our road from Newton to Faraday to Einstein to Quantum Mechanics in a quest to discover the Theory of Everything, which would do what Einstein had tried to do for the last several decades of his life.Kaku was one of the formulators of string theory which attempts the synthesis of relativity and the quantum theory. String theory is a perfect equation in that it has symmetry, and it also adds gravity to the mix, something that had perplexed scientists for years.But just because a theory seems perfect doesn't mean you can prove it as Einstein's followers ultimately proved his theory of relativity by observing light bend during a solar eclipse. String theory predicts ten dimensions, six of which are so small they can't be seen. That doesn't mean they're not there as the super collider is trying to prove by crashing protons into each other to elicit quantum particles like the Higgs boson. Kaku and other scientists can't do this in the lab because we're talking about the whole universe.Towards the end of GOD THE EQUATION Kaku starts throwing around possibilities about how we got here. Some scientists doubt string theory because of its insistence that multi-universes could exist. Kaku combats their criticism by suggesting that universes “pop up” all the time, but that most of them disintegrate unlike ours which is 13.8 billion years old. Kaku implies that's rather unique. After all we seem to be on the way to a cold demise since the universe has been proven to be racing away from us. We also live on a Cinderella planet, not too cold, not too hot, protected from the asteroids by the planet Jupiter etc. Could this mean a superior being is looking out for us? Kaku isn't willing to discard this notion. He's an agnostic, but he's also a scientist. He believes that in the beginning there was a void and a quantum particle popped out of the void into space time and just kept on expanding, and that was our universe.