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What’s the "women in science" problem, again? From the grad student whose thesis advisor stole her Nobel-winning ideas to the once-ridiculed theorist of dark matter, female scientific excellence has long been snubbed.
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MICHIO KAKU:
Dr. Michio Kaku is the co-founder of string field theory, and is one of the most widely recognized scientists in the world today. He has written 4 New York Times Best Sellers, is the science correspondent for CBS This Morning and has hosted numerous science specials for BBC-TV, the Discovery/Science Channel. His radio show broadcasts to 100 radio stations every week. Dr. Kaku holds the Henry Semat Chair and Professorship in theoretical physics at the City College of New York (CUNY), where he has taught for over 25 years. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study as well as New York University (NYU).
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TRANSCRIPT:
Question: Will we discover a “theory of everything” by 2050?
Michio Kaku: My work is in String Theory. In fact, I'm the co-founder of String Field Theory, which allows you to summarize all of the laws of String Theory into an equation about one inch long. Well, that's my equation. I helped to write that with Professor Kikowa of Japan, and in fact, you can even buy a T-shirt which has my equation on it. However, my equation is not the final word because first of all, there are five different string theories. So, there are five different one-inch equations for each of the different String Theories. And now we have something called M-theory, a theory of membranes vibrating in 11 dimensions and we are clueless, absolutely clueless about getting that one-inch equation that will allow us to understand M-theory, Membrane Theory.
So, we are, in some sense, going back to square one in terms of the mathematics, but in terms of the theory itself, we hope to match String Theory with the results of the Large Hadron Collider.
First of all, dark matter. We now realize that most of the matter in the universe is dark, invisible matter. If I had dark matter in my hand right now, it would be invisible. In fact, it would literally dissolve its way right through my fingers, go right to the center of the earth, would go right to China, back to the center of the earth and back up into my hand, and then it would simply oscillate between China and my hand forever. That's dark matter. And you know, it means that every single chemistry book and science book on earth is wrong. Every book of science says that the universe is mainly made out of atoms, hydrogen, helium, going up to uranium. Wrong. We know realize that most of the matter in the universe is dark matter. And most of the energy of the universe is dark energy. An invisible energy that permeates the vacuum of space and time. In fact, 73% of the energy of the universe is dark energy. And we're clueless about what is the nature of dark energy.
Twenty-three percent of the matter energy of the universe is dark matter. And we hope to create dark matter with the Large Hadron Collider. Well, where do we fit into this? Stars made out of hydrogen and helium make up 4% of the universe. But what about us? What about oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, what about us? We make .03% of the universe. Let me repeat that again. The atoms that are familiar to us, the higher elements make up .03% of the universe. We are the odd balls. We are the exception. Most of the universe is made out of dark energy and dark matter and we hope to create dark matter with the Large Hadron Collider.
The leading theory of dark matter is that it is caused by sparticles. Sparticles are super particles higher vibrations of the string. So, we represent perhaps the lowest octave of the string. Everything you see around us is nothing but the lowest vibration of the string. But the Large Hadron Collider would be powerful enough to excite the next set of vibrations, super particles, sparticles, that may makeup dark matter.
But there's another theory about the nature of dark matter. If our universe co-exists with a parallel universe, and there is a galaxy in this parallel universe, it would be invisible because light would move behind, underneath this parallel galaxy, but gravity seeps between galaxies, therefore you would feel this gravitational effect, but it would be invisible. Now, what is invisible, but has gravity? Dark matter.
So, ironically, maybe we have already discovered dark matter, already dark matter exists in a parallel universe whose gravity...
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@bigthink
@bigthink 4 жыл бұрын
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@seanmcguffin3868
@seanmcguffin3868 8 жыл бұрын
Ok this is much more a history of dark matter than of sexism.
@psydunk1
@psydunk1 10 жыл бұрын
"what did u learn? well, if u discover something, tell it to me first" hahahaha that sarcasm was funny
@alexlaukr8414
@alexlaukr8414 9 жыл бұрын
Michio Kaku makes up 96.72 percent of scientific PR.
@guyfromostrava
@guyfromostrava 11 жыл бұрын
I totally love this guy!!! I could listen to him for hours about science! That is how you make science interesting!
@bersababr7019
@bersababr7019 10 жыл бұрын
In other words: even with all the enormous difficulties and betrayals, women discovered DARK MATTER and PULSARS! Thanks Vera Rubin and Jocelyn Bell!
@tlpricescope7772
@tlpricescope7772 5 жыл бұрын
I hope she eventually got primary credit for her discovery .
@upandatom
@upandatom 7 жыл бұрын
That's really sad... :(
@WolfIce88
@WolfIce88 10 жыл бұрын
To label it sexism because it involves women isn't a good argument for sexism. A thesis advisor took credit for the discovery of pulsars found by his student. That makes him a liar, but to say he is sexist is to assume he wouldn't have lied if his student was a man. People have also dismissed, doubted, or ignored theories put forth by scientists that were men. To claim it is sexism because a female scientist's theory was dismissed, doubted, or ignored is to again claim sexism based solely on the fact that it is a woman being doubted or dismissed. It's just criticism, doubt, and dismissal when a man. It's all those things, plus sexism, when it's a woman.
@nikolaidrostdov
@nikolaidrostdov 10 жыл бұрын
XISCify How many really, truly thinks that? The very few that do, I can guarantee possess far more idiotic beliefs than that.
@WolfIce88
@WolfIce88 10 жыл бұрын
XISCify The majority of men and women are about the same intelligence, average. But they have shown that there are more male geniuses as well as more male idiots, than female. Which would explain why there might be more men in science. Because there are more male geniuses than female ones. It could also explain why more men are homeless or doing lower education jobs, because there are also more male idiots, than female ones.
@George7763
@George7763 6 жыл бұрын
WolfIce88 I think a better example he could have used is when scientists like Lisa Meitner had to work in the a the basement because she was a woman.
@HDitzzDH
@HDitzzDH 6 жыл бұрын
Well yes, the thesis advisor would definitely have taken the credit for the amazing discovery if it was a young, unknown male student as well, it had nothing to do with the fact that she happend to be a female, the man was simply greedy and egoistic.
@DrJoySmithMaxwell
@DrJoySmithMaxwell 6 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the historical discrimination of science & math against women! Sadly, many a woman have been barred from pursuit of math & science throughout history by fellow male scientists, i.e. Lady Hypathia!
@Marazish
@Marazish 12 жыл бұрын
"Tell me first" I outwardly went "HA!" in the middle of the night waking the whole household up. Awesome stuff.
@myrenmusic1611
@myrenmusic1611 2 жыл бұрын
Poom poom ☺
@personwhoisverybored
@personwhoisverybored 9 жыл бұрын
This isn't just in science, women have always been treated as being less then men. All over the world and in many religions. It's getting better but, we aren't viewed as equal yet. 
@personwhoisverybored
@personwhoisverybored 8 жыл бұрын
cesar leon thank you 😊
@carter9775
@carter9775 8 жыл бұрын
+Bryanna O not in Native American culture
@personwhoisverybored
@personwhoisverybored 8 жыл бұрын
Carter Gordon Unfortunately I don't know much about native American culture. But if that's true atleast some people have a head on their shoulders :)
@inferno7181
@inferno7181 8 жыл бұрын
+Bryanna O what was in the video was not examples of sexism. It was just examples of some girls being ripped off. It happens to men as well.
@xavm3176
@xavm3176 6 жыл бұрын
Bryanna O you're privileged way above men so stop
@TehLB
@TehLB 12 жыл бұрын
I want a shirt with Kaku's equation on it!!
@PJaee
@PJaee 10 жыл бұрын
"Men being innately better at STEM" isn't something we can prove until society changes as a whole, until gender stereotypes break down. Until we start teaching our young boys that it's okay to be emotional, expressive with language and encourage them into social sciences, child care and primary teaching. That's it's okay for little girls to want to build robots, or play with bacteria in a lab or work with numbers all day. When we have equality, we can define our biological differences.
@DrJoySmithMaxwell
@DrJoySmithMaxwell 6 жыл бұрын
Indian girls can do math. & so, can Arab girls. & Persians, too. They all also do engineering, medical science, & IT; all math & logic-based. So, it's definitely a culture thing in the west, going back to lady Hypathia of Greece.
@RHS-992
@RHS-992 10 жыл бұрын
so did they fix it? I mean nobel prize should be awarded just and fair, If they find out it is wrong person, they should fix it and not just leting it go, her supervisor didn't find it, she did right?
@TomaszWota
@TomaszWota 10 жыл бұрын
No, they didn't. She to date has received about 10 awards and honors, some as high as Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2nd class order, honorary knighthood included) (vs 5 Hewish), about twenty honorary degrees (vs 6 Hewish), and went on to have a high profile career. She never publicly criticized the Nobel prize committee decision. In fact, in 1977 she said: _There are several comments that I would like to make on this: First, demarcation disputes between supervisor and student are always difficult, probably impossible to resolve. Secondly, it is the supervisor who has the final responsibility for the success or failure of the project. We hear of cases where a supervisor blames his student for a failure, but we know that it is largely the fault of the supervisor. It seems only fair to me that he should benefit from the successes, too. Thirdly, I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them. Finally, I am not myself upset about it -- after all, I am in good company, am I not!_
@TheSinghisking4ever
@TheSinghisking4ever 5 жыл бұрын
Wow thats kind of inspiring
@Random_dudebro
@Random_dudebro 12 жыл бұрын
1:53 the way he says "Wrong." is just so perfect. I love this man.
@Patchipidea
@Patchipidea 11 жыл бұрын
If i ever became a physicist, and discovered something amazing, i will share it with Dr.Kaku first :D
@Jamess0090
@Jamess0090 Жыл бұрын
Did you really became a scientist?
@HavocParadox
@HavocParadox 9 жыл бұрын
the ending made me laugh.
@OnlyOneEarth8
@OnlyOneEarth8 10 жыл бұрын
And when we make that discovery, we will hear a voice say, "I am Sparticles!"
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 11 жыл бұрын
Doesn't surprise me that women in science have been laughed at, ridiculed, and their work not recognized, but stolen. This attitude towards women still prevails to this day. I always find it funny when someone's idea gets ridiculed, laughed at, or ignored, and then later the idea is proven to be correct. This happens all the time with humanity because of arrogance and a closed mind. Love listening to this guy teach. He makes physics interesting.
@DrinkElectrolytes
@DrinkElectrolytes 12 жыл бұрын
That was some smooth sarcasm at the end there
@MarkArandjus
@MarkArandjus 12 жыл бұрын
"Now what is invisible but has gravity?" Air. Nobel prize, please xD
@gingerbreadlady5353
@gingerbreadlady5353 10 жыл бұрын
Although I tend to agree that sexism is ingrained in academia, I don't think this example (as it was described here at least) provides any evidence of sexism. It is common for established researchers to take the main credit for findings made by inexperienced and unknown students, regardless of the gender. One might speculate that Michio Kaku was fully aware that it provides no evidence when he said it...
@prabhakaran1876
@prabhakaran1876 9 жыл бұрын
u show woman as victim ,thts how u become popular
@greengoblin9567
@greengoblin9567 6 жыл бұрын
it's about the lack of female role models. nothing else
@wellivea1
@wellivea1 5 жыл бұрын
Yes, even graciously accepting Nobel Prizes in their stead.
@Lunalis_610
@Lunalis_610 4 жыл бұрын
Wait, what? So Michio Kaku is admitting that he'll take credit for your work just cause he's famous? Why would he say that?
@heavylurker
@heavylurker 2 жыл бұрын
I believe Michio Kaku has a demonstrated a very fine sarcasm.
@RicheyRyan
@RicheyRyan 11 жыл бұрын
What he's talking about here, happened and HAPPENS systematically in the academic and scientific world. Particularly in computer science women have made seminal discoveries which have been usurped by supervisors, colleagues, managers etc. It's shame to see them passed up on the recognition that they deserve and for people to deny that it even happens.
@lDark787
@lDark787 10 жыл бұрын
Yesterday I woke up on Mars :O
@caveymoley9253
@caveymoley9253 10 жыл бұрын
ooops, can you teach me how to do that? better yet, can you teach me how to get back first?
@VoloMalVor
@VoloMalVor 10 жыл бұрын
Sparticles :}
@minhchau4533
@minhchau4533 Жыл бұрын
Hahaha, love your sense of humour too! Yeah, I wish I would make an astounding discovery and you, Dr. Kaku, would be the first physicist to get the news first hand !
@romisana
@romisana 11 жыл бұрын
May you please state your source for this information? I'd like to read more about it :]
@dlwillhelp
@dlwillhelp 9 жыл бұрын
I can't tell if he was joking at the end about stealing the credit for himself or not..
@Mihkel147
@Mihkel147 9 жыл бұрын
Agreed :D
@indraputra1935
@indraputra1935 8 жыл бұрын
half joking-half serious maybe and a sarcasm to reality lol
@cheaterman49
@cheaterman49 10 жыл бұрын
I love and respect women, however let's be honest about it, most of then have a lower brain computing power as most men. This can be seen in chess for instance, where top ELOs are around 3k2 IIRC while the top woman has 2k6 (and she's exceptional) while other women top around 2k2. Nevertheless, they don't deserve being fooled and stripped of their discoveries and ideas by ambitious scientists.
@madsloth601
@madsloth601 10 жыл бұрын
As if chess is a good way to measure intelligence. Go back to your cave. You're the reason we need feminism. And i'm a man.
@cheaterman49
@cheaterman49 10 жыл бұрын
Mad Ness It may not be, however mankind was very satisfied when it became capable of building sufficiently powerful computers (and being able to teach them) to beat itself at chess. Other than that, if you were less closed-minded, you would have noticed you're the only one using the term intelligence - I only mentioned brain computing power, as a raw measure of how many logic operations per second you are able to calculate.
@cheaterman49
@cheaterman49 10 жыл бұрын
Mad Ness I would even extrapolate so far as to compare brains to CPUs: a higher frequency doesn't necessarily mean a better chip, it simply means it is faster on single-threaded operations.
@madsloth601
@madsloth601 10 жыл бұрын
To compare brains on their ability to solve chess problems or CPU power is ridiculous. We aren't binary systems, nor are we programmed for chess. Let me extrapolate something and say you have huge mommy issues.
@cheaterman49
@cheaterman49 10 жыл бұрын
Mad Ness Science is the ability of applying logic, therefore men will outperform women at STEM for a while still. Read the comment I linked. Other than that, you're mentioning my mother, although I don't understand how she is involved in this debate.
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 10 жыл бұрын
Yeah. He's a great teacher. I wish more of my teachers in high school could have taught like him. I might actually have enjoyed high school a lot more. I follow Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman which is very interesting but it blows my mind how complex the concepts, technology and the universe are.
@Excelsoft
@Excelsoft 5 жыл бұрын
What did he say at the silent bit at 0:26 ?
@BakedPhoria
@BakedPhoria 4 жыл бұрын
In fact you can even get a t-shirt with my equation on it
@sled1950
@sled1950 12 жыл бұрын
quick question,when universes split to create a parallel universe,with more dark matter,is this what causes the universe to expand at an ever increasing rate?...are all probabilities,continuing to split, creating more probabilities in paralell universes?
@TheCosmicMysteryTour
@TheCosmicMysteryTour 5 жыл бұрын
Jocelyn Bell has just been awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. I have uploaded a short video about Jocelyn Bell and her role in the discovery of pulsars. You can watch the video here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJuHbJRy0Nirm4E.html
@voyagerwitch
@voyagerwitch 12 жыл бұрын
Yeah, and the Greeks noticed that too. It's just, they phrased it as "when you sleep, you wake up less tired and wounds heal faster".
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 10 жыл бұрын
You're right. It's the attitudes and beliefs that we have that strongly influence our children's choices of career and what they believe is possible for them.
@Trevor.Morrice
@Trevor.Morrice 12 жыл бұрын
Gandhi once said "There are two types of people in the world, those who do all the work, and those who take all the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there"
@bishalchetri4381
@bishalchetri4381 7 жыл бұрын
Thats really sad she didnt get the credit for her work....Dr.Michi Kaku is a very good person..and my favourite theoritical physicist
@romisana
@romisana 11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the link. On another page of NASA, it says Fritz Zwicky (30s) was the first to coin the term dark matter and Oort (30s) was the first to find evidence that dark matter existed; Rubin (70s) helped confirm dark matter's existence.
@DeinosDinos
@DeinosDinos 12 жыл бұрын
@Ragnarockalypse I never learned Latin, but I find it surprisingly easy to understand Latin at times, especially when learning Binomial Nomenclature
@sieyk
@sieyk 12 жыл бұрын
@GeneralBlackNorway also, how can you not relate (cycles/second) to (distance/time) where to perform a cycle is to vibrate(movement) which in effect is movement which is creating distance and where a second directly relates to time.
@StephanieL180
@StephanieL180 11 жыл бұрын
Things we know: Rubin's reasons for proposing dark matter were based on sound scientific reasons. The majority of theories are responded to with disagreement not ridicule. Rubin fought sexism among her peers in the Cosmo Club. She was flatly informed by Princeton Uni that women were not accepted on their graduate programmes. These are good reasons to think Rubin faced sexism, and to believe that she did in light of these facts does not make a person a sexist, as you have quite absurdly claimed.
@orvillestory9112
@orvillestory9112 8 жыл бұрын
1:10 You're literally scaring the shit outa me Dr. Kaku
@orvillestory9112
@orvillestory9112 8 жыл бұрын
1:59 OMG ...Now I know what is fueling the crazy feminazibots.
@Ragnarockalypse
@Ragnarockalypse 12 жыл бұрын
@DeinosDinos That is one of the ways that words are invented. Latin words may sound fancy and scientific, but they are often equally simple once you translate them.
@v2099
@v2099 11 жыл бұрын
so how do i contact you?
@DVSPress
@DVSPress 11 жыл бұрын
He ends this video discribing what every graduate student anywhere should expect.
@shakybill3
@shakybill3 11 жыл бұрын
i actually tried to turn in an assignment in engish about that but the teacher said it was too vague..... my luck was bad
@BakedPhoria
@BakedPhoria 4 жыл бұрын
I'm super confused with the ending I thought he was like I;m going to help you get your name first and then he switched
@raterallowance3445
@raterallowance3445 3 жыл бұрын
It was a joke
@StephanieL180
@StephanieL180 11 жыл бұрын
Vera Rubin made these discoveries in an era when the Cosmos Club barred female members, something she battled against throughout her career. The scientific establishment at the time didn't need to explicitly say they laughed at her ideas because of her sex when they wouldn't allow her to be a member of the Cosmos 'boys club' because she was female. Being dismissive of the struggles women have had to overcome is itself part of sexism. I'm glad Michio Kaku sees that, even if you do not.
@tonmaster2
@tonmaster2 12 жыл бұрын
Yes I think you're right. I did a bit of reading and apparently Vera Rubin supports the MOND which tries to express gravity by modifing Newtonian equations/physics and most of Vera's works were in the late 60s and early 70s. Neither dark matter or dark energy has any connections with Vera.
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 11 жыл бұрын
You're so right that in general brilliance is often ignored or ridiculed. Sometimes sexism is a part of it and sometimes it isn't.
@sause123456science
@sause123456science 11 жыл бұрын
I cant post any links here but just seach for michio Kaku on amazon and you will find them. They are most popular-scientific but still awesome.
@2061526
@2061526 11 жыл бұрын
i have an idea about the revolution of the planets to the center of the solar system or to the galaxy for that matter but how can i contact Mr. Kaku?
@voyagerwitch
@voyagerwitch 12 жыл бұрын
The Greeks probably knew that livers can grow back. They were the sort of people to know gory things like that. "Fire" is not an element, it's a chemical reaction. We can control many reactions, and induce many more. Lastly, Greek myths don't count as poetry. Greek myths are a bunch of things that a bunch of people believed about how the world works, based on actual observations that they made. Poetry is made primarily for aesthetic purposes, or expressive purposes: not explanatory.
@svessirM
@svessirM 12 жыл бұрын
the title doesn´t match the question you see in the beginning that why.
@randyej2581
@randyej2581 9 жыл бұрын
I hope he was being sarcastic about that last part about "Big named scientists come first"
@Velocirampers
@Velocirampers 9 жыл бұрын
Of course he is. It's fairly obvious.
@beanergaming2499
@beanergaming2499 11 жыл бұрын
where can i buy this t shirt that he is talking about!?
@GeneralBlackNorway
@GeneralBlackNorway 12 жыл бұрын
@sieyk Still vibration does not move anywhere, so how can it practically have anything to do with light? And btw, You do know the theory of general and special relativity right?
@ImmortalInflames
@ImmortalInflames 12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for telling us of other brilliant people that havn't being truely credited for the hard work! =]
@LivingDead53
@LivingDead53 6 жыл бұрын
I've done two things that would get me a cookie more or less out of sympathy. I came up with my own set of primes, and I found a way to chart numbers in my special triangle. I'm still working on that one. I found the thought after reading a book by Linus Pauling. He didn't highlight it, but I think he was thinking of it when he wrote down other findings. I'm not very smart. I'm 30 and as intelligent as a high school senior.
@DyslexicTurtle
@DyslexicTurtle 9 жыл бұрын
I'm just not sold on dark matter. It spawned when we realized there simply wasn't enough gravity in the universe to hold galaxies together, and we predicted those galaxies were held together with black holes. Just look at all the problems we've had with black holes, especially lately. We know next to nothing about them. It seems every year the idea of a black whole is fizzling apart. Isn't it far more likely that we vastly misunderstand gravity, black holes, and the forces? Instead we create this force that is completely undetectable, that we know nothing about, and governs all the problems of the universe that we don't understand. It reminds me a lot of the debate when light was discovered to travel in a vacuum and many people thought there was an "ether" that made up most of space to allow electromagnetic waves to travel. I'm no physicist. I'm a random self educated physics enthusiast, but something just doesn't add up.
@prabhakaran1876
@prabhakaran1876 9 жыл бұрын
yes u r correct ,here is wat rubin herself had to say....In the 1970s Rubin obtained the strongest evidence up to that time for the existence of dark matter.[12] The nature of dark matter is as yet unknown, but its presence is crucial to understanding the future of the universe.[13] Currently, the theory of dark matter is the most popular candidate for explaining the galaxy rotation problem. The alternative theory of MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) has little support in the community. Rubin, however, prefers the MOND approach, stating "If I could have my pick, I would like to learn that Newton's laws must be modified in order to correctly describe gravitational interactions at large distances. That's more appealing than a universe filled with a new kind of sub-nuclear particle."[14]
@jtyearsley
@jtyearsley 9 жыл бұрын
Lol, you shouldn't be. The guy in the video isn't sold on it either, no respectable scientist is. The terms "dark matter" and "dark energy" are what scientists call "place holding terms". Literally just a short way of saying "We have no freaking clue what....". You're actually very smart, and unknown to yourself figured out what it is they actually mean by those terms. That's very commendable.
@sadrien
@sadrien 8 жыл бұрын
When they say dark matter they mean this thing that is the only current explanation we have for the fact our math doesn't add up and therefore we operate under the assumption it existences our math works and we can , at least do things.
@Deepakyadav-vp8xx
@Deepakyadav-vp8xx 3 жыл бұрын
How many different string possible, how these string combine, what is nature of these string
@lajkathespacedog
@lajkathespacedog 12 жыл бұрын
The first 4 minutes were about how women might already have discovered some of those theories he talked about, but a women did, so it never became known to anyone else except the woman herself.
@TheJadeFist
@TheJadeFist 11 жыл бұрын
A question strikes me as he related normal matter, as a higher spectrum of mater, made me think of visible light spectrum. So if thats the case, are we high or low on the spectrum? Is there matter types that are below our "interactable spectrum". (Or would dark matter be below us?) then which case what about higher on the spectrum. With out the whole extra dimensional debate coming up, such as matter in other universes. Exsisting within our space/time but as outside our interactable spectrum
@UrAWizard
@UrAWizard Жыл бұрын
I like this guy, you can tell he isn’t dogmatic about his science.
@w718267
@w718267 12 жыл бұрын
"I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases, and I do not believe this is one of them." Bell's words. Still though, she should have gotten a little more credit, no matter which phase of life she was in.
@RationalWaves
@RationalWaves 12 жыл бұрын
It's not his fault. The video title is misleading. The question shown at the start is "Will we discover a 'theory of everything' by 2050?" Ironically, it seems that Kaku is the one taking the initiative to talk about the problem of sexism in science.
@oopswipps
@oopswipps 11 жыл бұрын
where to get tshirt m8
@cimmik
@cimmik 9 жыл бұрын
What was the name of the woman who did the discovery?
@Competitive_Antagonist
@Competitive_Antagonist 5 жыл бұрын
He does eventually address sexism. This kind of thing also happens to men, but probably affects women more. Apparently the man who discovered fractals wasn't taken seriously till much later. I do hope things are a bit more equal now and people of both genders get ignored and cheated out of credit in equal measure.
@vidyanandbapat8032
@vidyanandbapat8032 6 жыл бұрын
It's not about sexism Dr. Kaku, it happens to every junior from any authoritative senior belonging to any gender on any side.
@yoyoyoy500
@yoyoyoy500 12 жыл бұрын
Fortuntely all classical physics and stuff on atoms in obviously very useful in practise.The day that we might actually see stuff about dark matter as well as quantum and relativistic physics used will b an interesting one.
@sieyk
@sieyk 12 жыл бұрын
@GeneralBlackNorway it was just a suggestion, either way to vibrate is to move no matter how you look at it, they are labelled differently due to the types of movements they are enacting
@greenzoid2
@greenzoid2 11 жыл бұрын
Even today when women are given the choice to be a scientist if they wish, it is not the most popular pick by any means. Women tend to pick other jobs that also generally pay less than the jobs men pick more often.
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 10 жыл бұрын
They have a lack of interest in providing high quality education to all Americans. That is the real issue. Those with wealth and power (including the government) are mostly just interested in having more money and power. They aren't really interested in giving and service. They are mostly interested in what they can GET. The growing inequality in the world caused by selfishness and greed is holding back progress and well-being for humanity.
@ClubSealing
@ClubSealing 12 жыл бұрын
The video was supposed to answer the question in the beginning, which he did. He added the sexism bit at the end, as a side note, after he had answered the question. It's not his fault the BT gave the video a misleading title.
@MuonRay
@MuonRay 11 жыл бұрын
Indeed. Fritz Zwicky was the first to prove its existence at around a year after Oort's postulate by applying the virial theorem to the coma galaxy cluster. Vera Rubin would have been only 4 or 5 when he did this!
@00Tenrai00
@00Tenrai00 12 жыл бұрын
I wish I could learn physics from him... My physics teacher was a slob, he is probably the reason I hated physics back in high school. Dr. Kaku I could listen to you talking about physics all day long. This is how teachers should be like... And sure If I discover something important I am sure to let you know first :D
@cinemaclips4497
@cinemaclips4497 4 жыл бұрын
So wait, it has never happened in the history of humanity that a man came up with a correct hypothesis, then people laughed at, and pretty much ignored his work. And Marie Curie had already won two Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911. Seriously who made the title of this video
@TushantMirchandani
@TushantMirchandani 11 жыл бұрын
How can it be "excessive" if we haven't defined a minimal or general value to that emotion? A quick look at Oxford dict mentions that the term "Pride" is a standard value: "A feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived from one’s own achievements, the achievements of those with whom one is closely associated, or from qualities or possessions that are widely admired." Now, despite the emotions invoked, Pride is Neutral in connotation. "Confidence" is positive, and "arrogance" is negative.
@scoreunder
@scoreunder 12 жыл бұрын
Is absolute velocity measurable?
@piip4
@piip4 12 жыл бұрын
@lukepink Dark matter is "simply" the gravitational effect from matter in a parallel universe if I understood it correctly. So for the guys in the parallel universe, -we- are dark matter and invisible, though our gravitational presence is still detectable. I hope that answered your question but don't assume I know anything.
@marafizzyforever
@marafizzyforever 11 жыл бұрын
I wanna sit down and have a cup of tea with this guy. It would be so amazing.
@seancraddock4268
@seancraddock4268 6 жыл бұрын
I've been working on the problem for 4 years now and I solved it
@nachtphysik8380
@nachtphysik8380 10 жыл бұрын
That conclusion from Michio Kaku (although he is quite brilliant in his field) was fairly poor. Yes, she was ignored by scientists in her time but many male scientists as well, as they couldn't provide proof to their theories at that time. The german chemist Hermann Staudinger had to fight also for recognition of his theory of macromolecules. He only had the luck to be able to prove his thesis. That is sad but also how science works. You have to prove your thesis...
@adamchrome
@adamchrome 12 жыл бұрын
I somehow get the feeling that he would give equal credit to any discovery, like he does with his string field theory.
@54living
@54living 12 жыл бұрын
Oh! God, so true. People who working at academic field know about this. Always happening in academic field.
@sshuck
@sshuck 12 жыл бұрын
I love hokey, lovable scientist humor. It just makes scientists...more lovable.
@masonjones2721
@masonjones2721 11 жыл бұрын
Your sort of right, back in neanderthal times women raised and cared for babies and men had the genetics to grow big and strong so they can hunt for food and protect his family. Just in recent years that has started to change because we are not in danger of being eaten by sabre tooth tigers
@InnuendoXP
@InnuendoXP 12 жыл бұрын
The basis of science is to question. There is no such thing as a 'fact' objectively speaking in science. Seeing that something we think we know is able to be proven wrong if all the available evidence takes us to such a conclusion is the power of the scientific method.
@Praleart
@Praleart 12 жыл бұрын
That's pretty much true in the competitiveness of science discoveries. Whoever gets "famous" for it is written in the history books.
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 11 жыл бұрын
If our society changes the way it thinks about and influences both genders from the time they are children then I suspect the accomplishments in most fields, including science and technology, will become approximately equal. Already this is starting to change significantly. How far it will go I don't know.
@Dare2baDevil
@Dare2baDevil 10 жыл бұрын
michio kaku is a great human being, wish every one in the world were like him
@isteftan
@isteftan 11 жыл бұрын
Nice one there Professor ! :D
@victorialazareva
@victorialazareva 11 жыл бұрын
black holes are invisible because in order for us to see something you need light to bounce off the object and enter your eyes/telescope. As black holes so freaking massive and their gravity is so strong light, once entered the event horizon, cannot escape it and thus we cannot see a thing.
@nfcoard
@nfcoard 10 жыл бұрын
You can't just look at your university alone or a small number of universities and assume that that is the case with most universities. Also, I wouldn't consider medicine, law or business degrees less important than science and mathematics either. All those fields are crucial to a harmonious and happy society. In fact we still don't have a happy and harmonious world for most persons, including America, so obviously we haven't been teaching our children what really matters most.
@Deepthroww
@Deepthroww 11 жыл бұрын
I'm a guy and I think you're right. Sexism exist even today but not as bold and stupid as it was before. Although I believe that a small degree of sexism must exist; I mean, beating up a woman is not fun just because she gave you a furious look... that only happens to men because we are complete idiots.
@WolfySnackrib666
@WolfySnackrib666 12 жыл бұрын
-This is string theory... this is dark matter! -Matter... THIS IS SPARTACLES!
@thesnare100
@thesnare100 12 жыл бұрын
Why didn't she publish it in a journal?
@MrKaizerWEM
@MrKaizerWEM 10 жыл бұрын
What is it about his way of explaining things that makes me feel smart?
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