Marc Morano writes:
CBS This Morning featured a futurist who promotes paranormal phenomena like ‘telepathy, telekinesis and mind reading’ as climate expert during its February 13 broadcast. CBS only identified physicist Michio Kaku as a New York City College professor, with no mention of his special abilities. See: CBS Blames Global Warming for Harsh Winter Weather: Prof. Michio Kaku: ‘Excess heat generated by all this warm water is destabilizing this gigantic bucket of cold air….So that’s the irony, that heating could cause gigantic storms of historic proportions’
Kaku’s website (http://mkaku.org/home/) promotes his book: “THE FUTURE OF THE MIND: The scientific quest to understand, enhance, and empower the mind.” And his quest to promote: “Telepathy. Telekinesis. Mind reading. Photographing a dream. Uploading memories. Mentally controlled robots.”
Kaku claims all of “these feats” have already been achieved. “These feats, once considered science fiction, have now been achieved in the laboratory, as documented in THE FUTURE OF THE MIND,” Kaku’s website declares.
Kaku notes that his “book goes even further, analyzing when one day we might have a complete map of the brain, or a back up Brain 2.0, which may allow scientists to send consciousness throughout the universe.”
Kaku’s global warming comments were not well received by the scientific community:
Meteorologist Dr. Ryan Maue of Weather Bell tweeted on Kaku: He’s ‘like a festering wound on field of meteorology, Michio Kaku says ‘we think’ harsh winter is due to global warming,” Maue wrote.
“Kaku has no effing clue what he is talking about – ‘unstable jet stream’ — huh? How could someone supposedly so learned sound so doltish?,” Maue asked on Feburary 13, 2014.
“Must apologize to Bill Nye — he is now number 2 most egregious butcher of meteorology and climate science. New rankings come out weekly,” Maue quipped.
Houston Chronicle climate reporter Eric Berger joined in the Kaku bashing, noting Kaku is “a physicist (and not a well-regarded one among his peers) not an atmospheric scientist.”
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lol, love being corrected, unicycle means ONE wheeled like Bicycle means 2 wheeled…..in the case at hand UNIverse means ONE totality of everything that exists….there simply CANT be anything outside that UNIverse.
we need to rewrite the meanings of words if so called “scientists” wont use the accepted definitions, then communication ceases.
btw WHERE exactly would these infinite number of other verses be located in the physical reality of the UNIverse?
and what makes them NOT part of everything?
not saying other things dont exist that we have not discovered i think there are an almost infinite number of things we dont know about in fact, but when and as we discover them they still ARE part of the universe..
From the CBS interview…
KAKU: “Well, the wacky weather could get even wackier. What we’re seeing is that the jet stream and the polar vortex are becoming unstable. Instability of historic proportions. Now think of the polar vortex as a bucket, a swirling bucket of cold air. However, the walls are weakening. Cold air is spilling out, spilling out over the walls of the bucket. And the question is, why? Why is this polar vortex weakening? We think it’s because of the gradual heating up of the North Pole. The North Pole is melting.”
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What freaking North Pole melting is he talking about?!? On what planet?!?
There’s 14.8 million square kilometers of frozen ice in the Arctic at this moment!!
Ow! Make him stop!
Bill-
I KNOW that the word unicycle means ONE wheeled-to be correct, the Greek/Latin means “circle” not wheel. Bicycle means 2 circles. Yes. BUT, if you and I came upon a group of 4 unicycles, would you say “Look, a group of unicycles” or would you say “Look, a quadracycle!”. You’d say a group of unicycles, because those four circles/wheels are still on 4 individual vehicles, they have not been combined to create one vehicle with four wheels.
The Latin words from which we today derive “verse” are “vorsum, versum-which come from the word vertere- which meant-something rotated/turned, rolled, changed. The French took the words uni and vertere and combined them to mean “all things rolled into one” “all things turned into one”.
(The Latin word for “all things” is omnia. The Greek word is panton.)
Now, because we haven’t yet been able to reach the outter boundaries of our “universe”, which supposedly originated from one BIG BANG, we have ZERO proof that there haven’t been other “bangs” or that there are not other “universes” like ours out there separated from ours by some kind of boundary between them. In fact, if it is truly impossible to create or destroy matter, and where our universe currently resides was supposedly “empty” before that bang, where did all the “matter” that filled that empty space COME FROM before it was here? It has to have existed SOMEWHERE before it became our universe. And the universe is expanding….into what? Can “space” exist before it becomes the “space” inside our universe?
My point is not to argue the possibility of all things with you. My point was that it is perfectly logical to think that if we discovered OTHER universes, we wouldn’t change what we call OUR universe to something else. We’d simply come to understand that there was an actual physical boundary in which each universe exists.
David Wells says:
February 15, 2014 at 9:17 am “The real problem here is that meteorological butchering is paying this guys mortgage then meteorology will continued to be butchered and science and physics and logic and reality and data they are meaningless epithets to those who believe and characteristically link every event on the planet to support their chosen belief like the UKIP guy who said that the reason for all of the rain on the Somerset Levels was because Cameron approval of gay marriage…”
Perhaps you would prefer men who claim their mothers are aliens (Labor), or dabbling in explosives and prison time (Green) or Na-i stag parties (Tory).
And now, Nigel Farage of UKIP with the weather:
“all things turned into one” that is where you took this, and now you are saying there is something more than ALL????
Bill-
“all things turned into one” that is where you took this, and now you are saying there is something more than ALL????”
I said the French took the two words that meant something different, and turned them into that. If the term was fully Latin, it would be Uniomnia. If it was fully Greek, it would be Unipanton. You must have missed that part.
Now, you DO see the concept that ALL of the THINGS in this universe, could be totally separate from ALL the things in another, right? That ALL of the parts of one unicycle, do not constitute ALL of the parts of every unicycle that exists. Right? That ALL that we know to exist in our universe, does NOT constitute proof that NO OTHER universes exist (where the people in them might also think their universe is ALL that exists)?
Because if this concept eludes you, as simply as I have tried to explain it, then anything else I could say is futile.
All the best (which, just so you know, you should not take to mean that I mean ALL of everything that exists everywhere in or out of this universe)
Name is changed to protect the innocent says:
February 15, 2014 at 10:41 am “My extended family is conservative and rejects the global warming nonsense. Many objective brainiacs. Research featured in encyclopedias and serious journals. Our experience over multiple generations is that telepathy (communication between brains) is indisputably a fact of life for some people. I recently sat with the head of an academic research consortium who participates in remote viewing games. To astonishing effect. None of these people would ever publicly broach this subject because of the mockery and pillorying that is de rigueur among otherwise reasoned intelligent people when encountering those who believe that we are connected in ways that – to this point – have no scientific explanation.”
There are several ways one could categorize what appears to be telepathy.
1. synchronous events
2. nonverbal communication
3. recursive experience
4. lifelong bonds tending to cause similarities
5. similarities between thinking patterns may result in simultaneous experiences
And in any case, the earliest findings show that those who claim to be telepathic are usually not, while those who do not give it any thought do display what appears to be telepathy. Telepathy in that sense is a non-conscious process. Any attempt to direct it consciously results in guesses, hunches, suspicions, imaginings, intuitions and conjectures. Much hay can be made of this by gurus though. That is probably why people do not want to talk about it. The chances of misattribution and delusory evidence are extremely high.
And as for synchrony, the other word for that is Providence.
Zeke. Truly. Yours is an elegant response. You are a man possessed of a keen and disciplined mind.
And I think that your opinions, once formed, are not easily swayed.
Therefore I will not frustrate you or myself by relating the events and anecdotes that my family considers conclusive proof of real telepathy – to your furrowed-brow scrutiny. You are missing some poignant, funny and sometimes unsettling tellings. Perhaps we may both live long enough to see this controversial subject settled.
That is my last word on this matter.
lol, i always understood talk of multiverses is utter foolishness……..no hard feelings…….
on unspoken communication the last several years of my fathers life about 75% of the times he called me i answered the phone before it rang because i was picking it up to call him…. present day my wife says the exact words i am about to say before i can say them all the time……..my opinion is we use maybe 10% of what our brains are capable of and unspoken communication in my opinion and experience is very real.
Name is changed to protect the innocent says:
February 15, 2014 at 8:12 pm
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I believe similar to you. I did not comment on this thread earlier, in part due to reasons that you mention. I have no proof, only stories from the past. Although, in the 60s and a few times since then, I have startled others with my unusual way of knowing. What startled me a bit was that 3 times between 2004 and 2010 when I was living in the SF/Bay Area, I heard a comment from a fellow worker stating vehemently ” get out of my head”. These comments while not directly said to my face, were explicitly meant for me. The person uttering the remark probably felt a bit uneasy making what others might see as a slightly crazy remark. They had all made the comment out loud and with evident vigor and dismay. I knew what they meant, though. I was not directing my thoughts at anyone, nor would I even if I had that much control. These were all cases of fellow workers making this exact remark, which were sparked by intense inner feelings within me. I can be very intense at times. I can give several examples, both from incidents at the local bar which I would frequent after work. One time, I overheard someone at the end of the bar ask their companion ” do you think that he can read our minds”. Another incident, at an Irish bar in SF, where someone further down the bar asked their companion ” how is that we can ‘feel’ this guy”. I can understand that comment, because in my life I have met 2 people who I could sense from a distance. At my mother,s funeral as everyone left the church and came outside, I could fully sense a palpable wave of grief sweep across the crowd of several hundred people that made all who were there sob a bit. Everyone but me. That was because I was grateful that my mother had been released from her pain. I could almost see the wave, though. There is much more that I could add along these lines, but I will end my sharing with ” In the 60s I made several successful journeys. I was allowed to peer past the veil once, as I had made a true search. In 1966 the ‘search’ came to visit me”. Since then I have wandered a bit from the path, only crossing it every now and again. That path is a lonely difficult path especially in this day and age, although the rewards are beyond compare.
I am reading quite a few knocks against cosmology, above, comparing it to ‘climate science’.
What the posters perhaps don’t know, is the last 20+ yrs have been a golden age for cosmology with the availability of much precision satellite data of the cosmic background radiation.
Eg, COBE (Cosmic Background Explorer 1989, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_Background_Explorer) and WMAP (Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe 2001, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wmap ).
That data, combined with much hard data from the sub-nuclear particle accelerators (Fermilab, CERN, etc), puts very tight constraints on the models of the universe’s origin & evolution.
Currently the best model of the universe’s origin and evolution is the so-called ΛCDM or Lambda-CDM model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamda_CDM ).
Sure, there are still many gaps to fill in, but the recent cosmology models have been very succesful in describing the observed parameters of universe as a whole.
Compare that to climate models, which fail spectacularly to retrodict, let alone predict, anything measurable.
I’m an engineer by training & profession, not a cosmologist or high energy/theoretical physicist, so I dont have any “dog in this hunt”. But I’ve always had a keen “recreational” interest in these more exotic branches of physics & astrophysics.
Aphan says:
February 15, 2014 at 8:37 pm
“One” in Greek, Attic or Modern, would be ένας (enas), not Latin unum.
Since 2011 and the Tohoku quake and tsunami I have zero respect for Kaku. He was sitting in an American TV show, yelled and whined about Fukushima, essentially screaming all is lost without being on the ground and without having any access to the actual data from the meltdowns. Funnily enough, all of that happened when he selling another book. Coincidence? No.
Looking at Fukushima now… Japanese reporters have been allowed on site and they have not only taken photos of the fuel element basins which already carry fuel elements, but also of parts of the reactors where dismantling is going on and strong. The facility will be dismantled in no time.
Meanwhile Japan is getting ready to restart at least ten reactors this year. This will make Kaku cry again.
Good!
milodonharlani-
Thanks for the catch. “One” is also represented in Greek as “mono” or a form of “hen”. Depends on gender/neuter forms too. The numeral “one” is also different from the idea of plural one-such as the two shall become one, or one in heart and mind. Making the Greek closer to monopanton, or enapanton.
Of course the Greeks, Hebrews and Romans all influenced various words and prefixes and suffixes to our modern English. What a mess it is. 🙂
Bill and Goldminor-
Thanks for sharing your experiences. The human brain is full of electrical impulses and signals, and we can measure the activity in various parts of the brain in real time. Telepathy could be merely those people whose receptors are naturally more sensitive than others to certain signals etc.
HSPs (Highly Sensitive People) can literally “feel” the emotions and moods of other people and are often overwhelmed or stressed by crowds of people. Some describe feeling like they “absorb” the sadness or anger from other people, and are adept at “reading” body language without conscious effort. They are also super sensitive to certain fabrics, textures and other stimuli that cause a physical response above that of an otherwise average person. They can be sensitive to loud noises and violence etc. Normal things are amplified in them.
Doesn’t make them broken or weird or crazy (although a lot of them feel that way until they are diagnosed or understood). Just makes them a human variation we need to learn more about. We all originated from the elements of this planet, and I believe those elements interact and react differently in all of us to some degree.
Aphan says:
February 16, 2014 at 12:40 pm
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Aphan, thanks for your wise and kind words. I could write a book on my thoughts from that time. Perhaps, I should. A good part of the reason why I live in the mountains has to do with factors which you point out. Let me add a bit more dimension to how I view this aspect hidden within humanity.
First, there is no question that the mechanism for telepathy exists in at least some of us. A perfect example of this was a story that I came across at newsvine, about 3 years ago. It had to do with a robbery at a supermarket in the UK, if I remember right. A man, eastern European by the look of him possibly Roma, is in line at the checkout stand and is now talking to the cashier. Behind him a woman accomplice creates some extra space between him and other customers in the queue, as you like to say. The man is smiling and appears to say a few words. The cashier, a woman, is smiling and at ease the entire time. Then she opens up the cash register, takes out all of the bills and hands the money to the man. The smiling man probably is saying thanks. The cashier also does the same in return. The man leaves. His accomplice behind him, pushes her cart back into the store and out of the queue and then exits the store. The store has just been robbed. What happened? The clerk was completely exonerated after questioning, and could remember nothing of the man or what she had done. There is a video of this entire exchange.
Second, the first inkling of unusualness within me started at the age of 6. By the age of 10, I consciously started a ‘search’. By the early 60s, I started receiving the first of what I termed as ‘little gifts’ for my steadfast and honest intent in my inner search. The premier ‘gift’ was a temporary moment of ‘awakening’. The duration of this event varied, but it never lasted for very long, perhaps 5 to 60 seconds. This was an infrequent experience that could take place anywhere, ie…walking down the street, in the classroom, with friends, alone by myself. The experience was as if I had stepped back outside of myself at a specific angle. At that moment, I have full spherical awareness of my surroundings. I am fully aware of all of my random thoughts and processes within the mind. If I happened to be with friends, then I would instantly be fully aware of their surface thoughts, with the potential to look deeper except that I understood that would be a transgression. Although, I would automatically understand where and why their thought was generated, even if the individual did not know the where and why. Then I would slip back inside myself as the awareness ended, but I had glimpsed the moment and the potential. I was always grateful and thankful for being allowed to be completely free for that brief moment. That experience is what complete human awareness can achieve someday in the future. From that experience, I came to consider myself as a partially aware man. Perhaps, one day!!!.
This coo coo did hurt his head when he fell from the nest……………………….
Come now, we cant actually believe that James Randi’s chi challenge is even remotely objective, for anyone who’s actually looked into it. He’s not giving ANYONE a million dollars.
Bashing string theory…ok, but do you have anything else that comes close to reconciling GR & QM? Right, didnt think so.
Kaku is an indoctrinated quack. I dont care if he’s made any good contributions to string theory – I bought his quantum field theory book and 8 months later it was worth 10% of what I paid for it. I’ve seen enough garbage come out of his mouth that I dont care what he says about absolutely anything, he’s a sensationalist half-scientist.
After all these years, I am amazed that they have lied to me, the earth is flat after all. 😉
Once a scientist leaves the lab and continues his career by theorizing and pontificating, he often becomes delusional and intellectually narcissistic. Mann and Kaku are prime examples, but other examples abound. Even Sagan went a bit dipsy-doodle towards the end.