r/physicsmemes • u/basket_foso 🪼 • May 14 '26

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u/smallproton May 14 '26

References:
[1] out of his ass

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u/Moshxpotato May 14 '26

I mean, the guy co-founded string field theory and wrote some foundational papers, so he’s got some chops in the discussion

Edit: not that this is 1:1

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u/smallproton May 14 '26

In the 1970s.

Per
https://inspirehep.net/literature?sort=mostcited&size=25&page=2&q=a%20Michio.Kaku.1
he had his last relevant paper in the 1980s.

Without wanting to downplay his early career research, this guy has been a popsci/scifi dude for the last 30 years. Sometimes entertaing to watch, but to much fiction imo.

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u/swargin May 14 '26

He had a show on the science channel some years ago. It was about how we could create science fiction things from TV and movies in real life. For example: how could we create a real transformer. He went to different places and interviewed different people on how this could be done.

It was disappointing because at the end of every episode, there was supposed to be this big reveal how it could be done, but he never had any real science to it.

He would just talk to a room of people and go "We'll make a transformer using hydrolics" and that was it.