Quotes from Michio Kaku

La única predicción importante que no se ha cumplido es la clonación humana.

si un gato puede comerse un ratón en un minuto, ¿cuánto tiempo tardan un millón de gatos en comerse un millón de ratones? Respuesta: un minuto.)

The gentlemen in Berlin are gambling on me as if I were a prize hen. As for myself, I don't even know whether I'm going to lay another egg.

Aún hoy los físicos discuten sobre las implicaciones filosóficas de la teoría ondulatoria. ¿Cómo se puede estar en dos lugares al mismo tiempo? El premio Nobel Richard Feynman dijo una vez: «Creo que puedo decir, sin temor a equivocarme, que nadie entiende la mecánica cuántica».[1

Los hologramas son láminas de plástico bidimensionales que han sido especialmente codificadas con la imagen de un objeto tridimensional. Al iluminar una con un rayo láser, esta imagen aparece de pronto. En otras palabras, toda la información necesaria para crear una imagen tridimensional ha sido codificada en una lámina plana, bidimensional, con el uso de láseres

The essence of humor is when our simulation of the future is suddenly disrupted in surprising ways.

Sorprendentemente, se puede introducir directamente en una neurona, con precisión quirúrgica, un gen sensible a la luz que hace que la célula se dispare. A continuación, se enciende el haz de luz y la neurona se activa. Y, lo que es más importante, esto permite a los científicos excitar esos recorridos, de manera que pueden activar y desactivar determinados comportamientos con pulsar un interruptor.

It is impossible to imagine the height to which may be carried, in a thousand years, the power of man over matter. We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity, and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. Agriculture may diminish its labor and double its produce; all diseases may by sure means be prevented or cured, not excepting even that of old age, and our lives lengthened at pleasure even beyond the antediluvian standard.

different parts of the brain as it thinks. By tracing the path taken by our thoughts, MRI scans have shed new light into the nature of Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, schizophrenia, and a host of other mental diseases.

Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud.

Acaso los robots heredarán la Tierra? Sí, pero serán nuestros hijos. MARVIN MINSKY

Cuando alguien visitaba a Einstein en su casa, este les preguntaba: «¿Existe la luna porque un ratón la mira?». Pero, por mucho que la teoría cuántica violase el sentido común, algo había de verdad en ella: era experimentalmente correcta. Sus predicciones han sido corroboradas con hasta once decimales, lo que la convierte en la teoría más precisa de todos los tiempos.

Scientists can now instantly determine how certain parts of the brain are hooked up with other parts.

Every year, new uses for deep brain stimulation are being found. In fact, nearly all the major disorders of the brain are being reexamined in light of this and other new brain-scanning technologies. This promises to be an exciting new area for diagnosing and even treating illnesses.

Of these, one and only one method has proven to extend the life span of animals, sometimes even doubling it. It is caloric restriction, or severely limiting the intake of calories in an animal's diet.

On average, animals that eat 30 percent fewer calories live 30 percent longer. This has been amply demonstrated with yeast cells, worms, insects, mice and rats, dogs and cats, and now primates. In fact, it is the only method that is universally accepted by scientists to alter the life span of all animals that have been tested so far.

Negative energy may seem like the holy grail to a physicist building a starship, but for a nanotechnologist, the Casimir force is so strong at the atomic level that it becomes a nuisance.

In conclusion, negative energy does exist, and if enough negative energy could somehow be collected, we could, in principle, create a wormhole machine or a warp drive engine, fulfilling some of the wildest fantasies of science fiction.

Dr. Gazzaniga concludes, "It is the left hemisphere that engages in the human tendency to find order in chaos, that tries to fit everything into a story and put it into a context. It seems that it is driven to hypothesize about the structure of the world even in the face of evidence that no pattern exists.

Recently a promising chemical called resveratrol has been isolated. Resveratrol, found in red wine, helps to activate the sirtuin molecule, which has been shown to slow down the oxidation process, a principle component in aging, and therefore it may help protect the body from age-related molecular damage.

cuando se produce un conflicto entre la tecnología moderna y los deseos de nuestros primitivos antepasados, los deseos primitivos siempre ganan. Este es el Principio del Hombre de las Cavernas.

train wreck

el hito siguiente en la historia de la IA: aplicar una ingeniería inversa al cerebro humano.

The material world may come and go, but consciousness remains as the defining element, which means that consciousness, in some sense, creates reality.