Hyperspace (A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimension) - Michio Kaku

Despite the Sci-fi like title Michio Kaku's book (ISBN 0-19-508514-0)is a non-fiction book about physics, more particularly it acts as a good introduction to such subjects as "Superstring" theory. Kaku, a physist and radio presenter from New York, writes in an interesting, informative and entertaining way. It offers a history of some of the important development in physics and cosmology before moving on to talk about Superstring theory and General Unified Theories "GUTs" using personal anecdotes and Sci-fi examples to illustrate some of his points. For such a potentially heavy subject I found ... more

Im not a big phsyicist or Mathematician but it was fairly easy to follow most of Michio Kaku's explanations, some of the diagrams were extremely helpful in describing his points. This is not a fictional book, it is based on actual scientific theory about subjects that may seem fictional but (in theory) may not be. For example time travel, worm holes, parallel universes, 4th, 5th, 6th.. etc dimensions and so on. Although this book may seem very complicated and jargon heavy it was actually an okay read and not too difficult. Although some of the terminology may go on for several chaptors and ... more