Another great read from Michio Kaku. I have read most of his books and he is a very talented author who can explain complicated things to the non-physicist. Although this book is not as complicated as some of his earlier releases he does have some interesting ideas about what the future will be like, what type of technology we will have in the future and how physics is shaping the way for all this to happen.

Some of the topics he discusses are: medicine, nanotechnology, space travel, energy and humanity itself. Most of his predictions are made from the fact that some sort of research is being dome in that topic right now.

I hope I am alive to see some of this technology come to life!

Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100

For those who have read some physics books in their life must have herd of Richard Feynman. We was a great physicist who works on quantum mechanics. This books gives a breif look at his accomplishments (even winning the nobel prize!) in physics and gives a little details of his character. Oh, did I mention it’s written as a comic?

I really enjoy reading books in the form of a comic. I find the visual element really helps understand what you are reading more. Of course not all books can be like this but there are more coming out in this form these days.

Get this book, it will give you a nice look into one of the great thinkers of the quantum revolution.

Feynman

This is the second time I have read this book. The first time was about 2 years ago and I thought it was interesting enough to read it again.

The author Seth Lloyd is a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. He believes that we are all living inside a huge computer that makes of everything we see. Not a computer that we are use to but a quantum computer performing operations on elementary particles. Very interesting indeed.

I am truly fascinated with quantum computation and information. If you find this subject interesting also then pick up this book. It will open your eyes on another way to think about the universe.

Lloyd, a professor at MIT, works in the vanguard of research in quantum computing: using the quantum mechanical properties of atoms as a computer. He contends that the universe itself is one big quantum computer producing what we see around us, and ourselves, as it runs a cosmic program. According to Lloyd, once we understand the laws of physics completely, we will be able to use small-scale quantum computing to understand the universe completely as well. In his scenario, the universe is processing information. The second law of thermodynamics (disorder increases) is all about information, and Lloyd spends much of the book explaining how quantum processes convey information. The creation of the universe itself involved information processing: random fluctuations in the quantum foam, like a random number generator in a computer program, produced higher-density areas, then matter, stars, galaxies and life. Lloyd’s hypothesis bears important implications for the red-hot evolution–versus–intelligent design debate, since he argues that divine intervention isn’t necessary to produce complexity and life. Unfortunately, he rushes through what should be the climax of his argument. Nevertheless, Lloyd throws out many fascinating ideas.

Amazon link: Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos

I bought this book because it had a high rating on amazon, the author, Shing-Tung Yau, is a fields medal winner and because I really wanted to know how geometry applied to String Theory. Geometry has never been an area of mathematics I find interesting until reading this book.

The main topic of this book are geometric objects called Calabi-Yau manifolds. At first the author describes how he came up with a proof of these manifolds (which won him a fields medal). Then he talks about how physicist started using these manifolds with string theory.

Simply amazing book, at times a little hard to grasp (mainly because it’s difficult to think in 10 or 11 dimensions), but extremely fascinating to read.

Amazon.com Link: The Shape Of Inner Space

Calabi-Yau Manifold