{"id":121206,"date":"2021-04-03T20:22:53","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T03:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/string-theorist-michio-kaku-reaching-out-to-aliens-is-a-terrible-idea"},"modified":"2021-04-03T20:22:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T03:22:53","slug":"string-theorist-michio-kaku-reaching-out-to-aliens-is-a-terrible-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/string-theorist-michio-kaku-reaching-out-to-aliens-is-a-terrible-idea","title":{"rendered":"String theorist Michio Kaku: \u2018Reaching out to aliens is a terrible idea\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/string-theorist-michio-kaku-reaching-out-to-aliens-is-a-terrible-idea3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at City College, New York, a proponent of string theory but also a well-known populariser of science, with multiple TV appearances and several bestselling books behind him. His latest book, The God Equation, is a clear and accessible examination of the quest to combine Einstein\u2019s general relativity with quantum theory to create an all-encompassing \u201ctheory of everything\u201d about the nature of the universe.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The physicist on Newton finding inspiration amid the great plague, how the multiverse can unite religions, and why a \u2018theory of everything\u2019 is within our grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at City College, New York, a proponent of string theory but also a well-known populariser of science, with multiple TV appearances and several bestselling books behind him. His latest book, The God Equation, is a clear and accessible examination of the quest to combine Einstein\u2019s general relativity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,41,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-information-science","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}