Michio Kaku,
Professor Of Physics,
City College of New York (CCNY)
October 17, 4:30pm
Barus and Holley 166

"Einstein's Legacy: black holes, worm holes, time machines, and higher dimensions "

Lecture will be simulcast in:
  • Room 168
  • Barus Holley Lobby


Einstein's theories have had great experimental successes, including time dilation, E = m c squared, black holes, the big bang, gravity waves, and Bose-Einstein condensates. But there are other predictions and extensions of his theories which have not been verified, but have generated much new interest and research, including time machines (1949), wormholes (1935), and higher dimensions (1921), which we will explore in this talk. Time machines and wormholes are genuine solutions of Einstein's equations, but they only exist under very extreme conditions, and it is not clear how stable they are quantum mechanically. We explore several designs being proposed, and how possibly to resolve the paradoxes of time travel. And higher dimensions, which are a simple extensions of Einstein's theories, have found applications in string theory, cosmology, and proposals for a "theory of everything."

Prof. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of String-Field Theory, and is the author of International best-selling books such as "Hyperspace", "Vision", and "Beyond Einstein"

He also holds the Henry Semat Professorship in Theoretical Physics at the City University of New York.

http://www.physics.brown.edu

http://www.physics2005.org/

There is limited seating!
Room 166 has 180 seats.
Room 168 has 150 seats.
The lobby will be standing room.