About Mind Reading interview with Michio Kaku on Fox News

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9. "He also incessantly self promotes his "co-invention" of string field theory;

"...a collection of uncountable theories with no practical test (no matter what he claims)."

As to your point that he 'incessantly self-promotes';

"He (Dr. Kaku) has taught at Princeton University and the City College of New York, as well as written seven books on science for the general public. Michio has also appeared on dozens of radio and television shows and documentaries, explaining complex theories in a way everyone can understand." so that;

""Einstein once said, 'If a theory cannot be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless',"

http://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kaku.cfm

Scientists, mainly Neil DeGrasse Tyson, lament the lack of mainstream scientific knowledge and Dr. Kaku's approach to this dilemma includes;

""Einstein once said, 'If a theory cannot be explained to a child, then the theory is probably worthless',"

http://www.aps.org/careers/physicists/profiles/kaku.cfm

I think Dr. Kuko's approach to 'self' promotion may not be the standard model for 99.9999% of scientists, but as witnessed via the clip ON FOX NEWS of all places, his ideas reach, well, middle class(?) Americans.

String Theory CAN be checked as to this article;

(Phys.org) —Scientists at Towson University in Towson, Maryland, have identified a practical, yet overlooked, test of string theory based on the motions of planets, moons and asteroids, reminiscent of Galileo's famed test of gravity by dropping balls from the Tower of Pisa.

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"Scientists have joked about how string theory is promising...and always will be promising, for the lack of being able to test it," said Dr. James Overduin of the Department of Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences at Towson University, first author on the paper. "What we have identified is a straightforward method to detect cracks in general relativity that could be explained by string theory, with almost no strings attached."

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-01-scientists-theory.html#jCp

When Einstein first proposed his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905 there seemed no way to test the theory, but the overwhelming scientific view was that it was correct.

Yet 10 years later it was proven (I won't go into specifics, but the way it happened is much a part of modern literature if one wants to read this about this fascinating story).

"Michio Cuckoo."

I'm not sure if you grew up with Dr. Kaku and have some personal grudge against him but NAME CALLING? Come on!

"He can be very interesting when he sticks to known physics, but he almost never does. When he strays off that path he rather consistently goes down some woo woo path."

Woo woo?

WTF?

Known physics...WTF do you think this term means, or ANY theoretical field of science (Do you know of the TV show The Big Bang Theory and Sheldon in particular);

"Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experimental tools to probe these phenomena.

The advancement of science depends in general on the interplay between experimental studies and theory. In some cases, theoretical physics adheres to standards of mathematical rigor while giving little weight to experiments and observations.[a] For example, while developing special relativity, Albert Einstein was concerned with the Lorentz transformation which left Maxwell's equations invariant, but was apparently uninterested in the Michelson–Morley experiment on Earth's drift through a luminiferous ether.[citation needed] On the other hand, Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for explaining the photoelectric effect, previously an experimental result lacking a theoretical formulation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theoretical_physics

As to "He can be very interesting when he sticks to known physics, but he almost never does.", Dr. Kaku has stated, as other physicists I have read, "If it is not forbidden by Physics, then it is possible."

As to another quote;

" "Without a solid background in advanced physics, I would be forever speculating about futuristic technologies without understanding whether or not they were possible. I realized [to know,] I needed to immerse myself in advanced mathematics and learn theoretical physics," Michio says. "So that is what I did.""

So I'm not sure of what you mean when you state "...but he almost never does."

Are you saying nearly everything he espouses is 'crap' or, well, I don't think you leave room for any other explanation for Dr. Kaku's
work.

"Telepathy? Telekinesis?
BAH!"

Actually I have seen videos where researchers have demonstrated, via MRI's, 'visual' images of what the person is thinking, so what do you mean by "BAH"?

One last quote and comment; "..."co-invention"..." again, I don't know why you feel the need to include quotes.

Are you implying that he is not the co-inventor, String Theory is pseudoscience or have some other reason, such as Dr. Kaku did not invent String Theory?

Also, he DOES have a web site, however, it is a .org and NOT a .com, but he does sell t-shirts (yes, one with his abstract likeness and it's REALLY COOL!), some other clothing and MIND BLOWING posters!

http://www.imaginaryfoundation.com/store/art.html

In conclusion, why would you post this?

Sorry for the lack of some editing but I did not get enough sleep and wanted to get this posted as I've already spent too much time on this post.