Hyperspace (book)

Hyperspace
Cover depicting the artist's 2D conception of a 3D face of a 4D Hypercube house upon a 3D landscape.
Author	Michio Kaku
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Popular science
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Publication date	1994
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
ISBN	0-19-286189-1
LC Class	QC793.3.F5 K35 1994
Preceded by	Beyond Einstein
Followed by	Visions (book)

Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension (1994, ISBN 0-19-286189-1) is a book by Michio Kaku, a theoretical physicist from the City College of New York. It focuses on Kaku's studies of higher dimensions referred to as hyperspace. The recurring theme of the book is that all four forces of the universe (the strong force, the weak force, electromagnetism and gravity) become more coherent and their description simpler in higher dimensions.

English alternative rock band Muse used the book as an inspiration for their album Origin of Symmetry.

Summary

Michio Kaku tries to explain higher dimensions, first analyzing the history of higher dimensions of space and the struggle to unite quantum mechanics and general relativity in one theory. He then goes on to detail theories concerning the 2-D world, named "Flatland". The end of the book discusses such topics as wormholes, parallel universes and the fate of the universe.

Part I Entering the Fifth Dimension

Worlds Beyond Space and Time
Mathematicians and Mystics
The Man Who "Saw" the Fourth Dimension
The Secret of Light: Vibrations in the Fifth Dimension

Part II Unification in Ten Dimensions

Quantum Heresy
Einstein's Revenge
Superstrings
Signals from the Tenth Dimension
Before Creation

Part III Wormholes: Gateways to Another Universe?

Black Holes and Parallel Universes
To Build a Time Machine
Colliding Universes

Part IV Masters of Hyperspace

Beyond the Future.
The Fate of Universe
Conclusion

References

Kaku, Michio (1994). Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286189-1.

Michio Kaku

Books	Beyond Einstein (1987) Hyperspace (1994) Visions (1998) Einstein's Cosmos (2004) Parallel Worlds (2004) Physics of the Impossible (2008) Physics of the Future (2011) The Future of the Mind (2014)

Documentaries	2057 Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible Time Visions of the Future

Dimension

Dimensional spaces	Vector space Euclidean space Affine space Projective space Free module Manifold Algebraic variety Spacetime

Other dimensions	Krull Homological Lebesgue covering Inductive Hausdorff Minkowski Fractal Degrees of freedom

Polytopes and shapes	Hyperplane Hypersurface Hypercube Hypersphere Hyperrectangle Demihypercube Cross-polytope Simplex

Dimensions by number	Zero One Two Three Four Five Six (degrees of freedom) Seven Eight n-dimensions Negative dimensions

Category

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