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• [1] Laura from ROCKLAND COUNTY June 17, 2008 - 08:53AM

  I heard him speak a few years ago at Sarah Lawrence College, and I remember one thing he spoke of was that it might actually be possible to travel through wormholes, where the ends might be at vastly different points in space and time. One followup I've always wished I could have asked was whether such travel through a wormhole would be possible in both directions? Or are there limitations which would make it be a one-way street?

  
  
• [2] Peter from Sunset Park June 17, 2008 - 10:55AM

  In television shows such as Battlestar Galactica and Farscape there are creatures that exist that are part biological and part electrical. In Battlestar of course there are the cylons that look human, contain DNA, but are also robots. Is such an innovation conceivable beyond the point of a simple implant like a pacemake or prosthetic limb?

  Also, these shows have ways for ships to move across huge periods of space in seconds. Any possibilities here too?

  
  
• [3] Daniel F from East Hanover, NJ June 17, 2008 - 11:07AM

  I can't get enough of Michio Kaku on all the great documentaries he's been featured on for the Science Channel... There's only one question I love to hear him tackle? What is is theory to "Lost"?

  
  
• [4] Mickey from 1 1/2 blocks from you June 17, 2008 - 12:04PM

  Can't wait to hear Mr. Kaku on your show again. Always informative and entertaining. His recent television program, "Time," was excellent.

  
  
• [5] kevin from Chelsea June 17, 2008 - 12:11PM

  Michio ROCKS!!!

  
  
• [6] Alex from Park Slope June 17, 2008 - 12:16PM

  Michio Kaku certainly has one skill -- self-aggrandizement. Let's go to a physicist who thinks of his job as something more than popularization and self=promotion.

  Mr. Lopate got Kaku on the Large Hadron Collider. OK, Prof. Kaku will analyze data, but he is _not_ affiliated with CERN in any way.

  Likewise, when we start pressing, we find that "teleportation" "time travel" involve tiny tiny things.

  
  
• [7] Matt from NYC June 17, 2008 - 12:18PM

  Listening now - You can't call a stroke sufferer a "vegetable" Shame on you.

  
  
• [8] Giuseppe from New York June 17, 2008 - 12:24PM

  I believe that teleportation as described by Dr. Kaku would be based on the principle on non-separability. This seems to imply that certain kind of information are tranmitted instantaneously. Could he possibly explain why this is consistent with the other physical principle that information cannot travel faster than light?

  
  
• [9] Stephen from brooklyn June 17, 2008 - 12:25PM

  Invisibility:

  Sometimes I notice invisibility when watching older shows on television (early 1960s), I am able to see through the human beings.

  Anybody else ever notice this?

  
  
• [10] Tabitha from Brooklyn, NY June 17, 2008 - 12:26PM

  ...Do you realize that your segment today oddly echoes a cracked.com article? Especially re: teleportation.

  http://www.cracked.com/article_15655_5-awesome-sci-fi-inventions-that-would-actually-suck.html

  I love it when my non-matching interests (public radio & juvenile humor) actually intersect. :)

  
  
• [11] Matt from NYC June 17, 2008 - 12:26PM

  This guy is the Dr Phil of Physics...

  
  
• [12] Bill from New York June 17, 2008 - 12:26PM

  On invisibility:

  If I were rendered invisible by light's wrapping around me, wouldn't I be unable to see -- not just myself, but others as well?

  
  
• [13] Theresa from Brooklyn June 17, 2008 - 12:29PM

  I am getting an earworm of Oingo Boingo's "Weird Science" just listening to this segment. ;)

  
  
• [14] Amy from Manhattan June 17, 2008 - 12:31PM

  Have actual particles now been teleported? Up to now, every time I've heard about teleportation in real life, it's referred to transferring a quantum state to a different particle rather than moving the original particle itself. Also, if an object is destroyed & a copy created somewhere else, is that really teleporting? Hasn't that term usually meant transporting the *same* object?

  
  
• [15] Alex from Park Slope June 17, 2008 - 12:31PM

  It would be nice if Prof. Kaku were even somewhat well-informed.

  The Raygun Mr. Lopate refers to is a development of Raytheon and the Department of Energy. It focuses a tight microwave beam on a target (a human). Just google "Silent Guardian" or "Active Denial System".

  As for cold fusion, again Prof. Kaku demonstrates impressive ignorance. MIT was so taken with cold fusion that it sought to patent it (before it was proven to be nonsense).

  
  
• [16] veronica from manhattan June 17, 2008 - 12:39PM

  Is it my imagination, or is this a repeat show?

  
  
• [17] Amelia from bathroom stall on my iphone June 17, 2008 - 12:58PM

  yeah i heard this b4.

  whats with the repeat segments the last 2 days?

  
  
• [18] hjs from 11211 June 17, 2008 - 01:39PM

  Kaku also has a show on wbai Wednesdays 5PM - 6PM

  
  
• [19] milt fisher from New Jersey June 21, 2008 - 09:41AM

  Been listening for years. This was the most fascinating interview. I'm buying the book