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Michio Kaku

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“No, you tell them what to do. The computers probably programmed to look for a reference like an encyclopedia, a handbook, the internet. In other words, if you say I want to know the best car, it'll carry that out by looking at the internet, going through different cars. It doesn't need you to tell that. But if you were to ask something more complicated, go to the supermarket and buy me some eggs. No robot can do that.”
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“Well, I think menial jobs will go out the window like this, jobs that are repetitive, jobs that just require your arms and legs. Those jobs will be gradually phased out. And new jobs will open up. New jobs that require thinking, human relations, organizing, directing other people, robots can't do any of that stuff. Robots simply do what they're told to do repetitively, okay? We make decisions. We know how to interface with other things. We plot, we plan. Robots can't do that. Now that doesn't mean they can't eventually, but it just means that the next step beyond this will be robots that can do a little bit of mental work, and it means that we have to retrain the workforce so that they can become masters of the robots. In other words, we are masters of tools, hammers, saws, whatever. We're the master of them. They're not the master of us, okay? We tell the hammer and the chisel what to do because we lord over them.”
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“Yeah, in other words, we are still looking the same, except we have superhuman abilities, and our brain is connected either directly or by remote control to a central nervous system that does the calculations and performs these calculations much better than we can. And we become superhuman.”
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“That's right. That's my personal feeling, because people talk about whether they're good, whether they're bad, so on and so forth. Well, the bottom line is they're going to become more powerful. And not now, but who knows maybe in the next century, they'll begin to make reasonable choices. They'll reason, they'll plot future histories, and at that point they could be potentially dangerous. So what do we do? Either we become super powerful and meet the challenge, or we merge with them.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Will they destroy us or will they want to? And the answer I think is no, because they could have done it years ago. You realize that if you go back even the Bible makes reference to a UFO. If you take a look at Ezekiel, Ezekiel saw the wheel in the sky, and some people say that was no wheel, that was a UFO. So who knows for sure, but if the aliens really wanted to destroy us, they could have done it years ago. They don't have to wait. But if you go to Bazoo, even if the zoo is lifelike to the point where the animals themselves don't even know they're in a zoo, it's peaceful, that you can observe them without necessarily evaling your presence, and in that sense it could be like living in a zoo. Not that they want to glaw at us and laugh at us, but just observe us.”
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“That's right. In fact, that's probably one reason why they don't come out and greet us like in the movies. In the movies they always come out and say hello Earthman. No, I personally think they're robotic.”
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“Well, if I were to shoot in the dark, I'd say first of all they're robotic. They're not organic at all, for they Because they exhibit maneuvers that would crush the bones of any living creature that we know of. These fine sauces can zigzag. They can die from seventy thousand feet all the way down. They can dive underwater. These require skills and tensions and vibrations that would crack any known US device in half. And there they are executing these things. Either they're fake or their exercises. So I think that they have a technology that we can only dream of.”
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“I'd say carry on. They made a lot of decisions that I feel good about, decisions that made me a better person. For example, when I went into the army, at that point I thought what could be worse than facing death on the battlefield to die on some unnamed hill in some undamed land. And then I began to realize, well, yeah, that's a possibility. But there's another possibility that you may survive, that you may learn from that experience. If you're not here to learn, okay, so be it. But if you are here to learn, you gain wisdom by being in the military. And that, I think, is a positive thing.”
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“I think the best strategy to deal with failure is try it again. I think on the first try you're bound to make mistakes'cause it's a learning curve. And that learning curve is instructive. It teaches you. It teaches you to try it again but make a slight change. Make a slight change and hope that change in the right direction. If not, make another change and see whether that puts you in the right direction.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But no, no, no, no, maybe yes, very important the word maybe. I'm a scientist and somebody's going to use that against me by saying you said on television that this and this is true. No, I said maybe. That doesn't mean it actually is true. It just means I opened the possibility that it's true.”
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“I leave open the probability that it could be one or the other. There's no aha moment where I say that it's nothing but reflection, it's nothing but an optical illusion. There's no aha moment.”
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“No, just lights dancing in the sky without any commentary, so you don't know what they are. But they could be extraterrestrial, but you see, these things are two dimensional. They're taken by a camera, which flattens the image. Therefore, the judge distance is very tricky.”
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“Will I talk about the nature of string theory in the future, whether or not we really will have a theory of everything, flying saucers, I talk about the fact that even though we have no evidence today, there's a mountain of these things being declassified now. Maybe we'll pick up shreds of evidence”
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“Usually, when I make predictions, they come out to be true, maybe the timeline is a little bit exaggerated, but they turn out to be true. So I haven't made any predictions or observations that were later shown to be false.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I care about leading a good life that I feel comfortable with. And if you if your books and your teachings and your lectures, if they live on beyond you as a bonus, it means that you had an impact, it means you touched people, you touched people's lives with ideas, and when I go down the street, quite a few people come up to me and they say I saw you on this show, I saw you on that show, and that gives me a nice feeling. Of course, after I'm gone, there's nothing to feel, but when you're still alive it gives you a nice feeling know that you've had an impact. Knowing that you've changed somebody's life. Several people have come up to me and said I became a physicist because of you. So that's a nice way to view reality that you touch people.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, there's a lot of things that haven't been proven. All I can say is maybe, maybe not, like flying saucers. I don't say they don't exist or they exist. I say maybe. I just haven't seen concrete evidence for them, that's all. So there's a lot of things that I'm not going to definitely say no like ghosts. I don't think they are ghosts, but I can't prove it Maybe there is some afterlife of some sort, but it does go against what is measurable. We've seen no measurement of somebody that has been able to pick up vibrations from a ghost.”
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“I think a psychological that you are tuned, tuned into a certain personality, a certain way of movement. I think it's psychological rather than physical.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think that a person emanates a certain aura or a vibe, that doesn't necessarily mean they're radiating something.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't see it happening because your brain, your personality, your thoughts are electrical. And when you die, the electricity turns off. There's nothing propelling thinking anymore. Thinking requires a lot of energy. Even ghosts, if ghosts exist, they would still require a lot of energy to keep the thoughts going. But that's why I don't believe in ghosts, because I don't see an energy source that propels the ghosts.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, but the one thing that did change my attitude toward life other people was being in the army. Yeah, that was a game changer that changed everything I knew which I thought I knew. Before then I was single mindedly focused on physics, just physics, do physics well that was my life. But after seeing warfare up close, I began to relate this more to life than warfare.”
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“It consumes six kilowatts of power everything that my mother's house had it would absorb, and that was the goal to build a machine that would create my own beam of antimatter. So I got started very early, and I said to myself, this is for me, this is what I want to do for a living.”
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“Antimatter is the opposite of matter when I combine matter and antimatter I get a bomb, so you have to be very careful that you don't marry matter with antimatter. And antimatter behaves the opposite of ordinary matter. If ordinary matter goes clockwise in magnetic field, antimatter goes counterclockwise in that same magnetic field. And so as a science project, I wanted to photograph the tracks of antimatter. So I got hundreds of miles of copper wire built to cloud chamber, and I was able to prove that I could photograph the tracks of antimatter. And for that, I went grand prize at the San Francisco Science Fair, and that began my career just before I graduated from high school, I decided to top that by creating an atom smasher at two point three million electron volt beta particle accelerator.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was fascinated by the work of Einstein and the work of people working on subatomic particles, and I got interested in antimatter.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, first of all, who's doing this work? And it turns out the CIA is following this work very carefully because with this you'll be able to crack any code. Why is it that a thief cannot steal your bank account today? It's because that thief does not have your digital code. If a thief has your digital code, there goes your life savings out the window. Capitalism would vanish, society would come to a halt. There'd be civil war. Coz are there not to be broken. To break a code, you have to have another code, and so the CIA and other organizations create these very complicated codes that you have to master quantum computers can do it. But we're not there yet, but it's coming. I don't know when. Some people say in a few days. Some people say sooner I don't know. I just know that the world is gambling that will find a way to”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is the basis of a quantum computer. Quantum computers are so powerful that even the CIA is worried that one day, perhaps in the future, they'll be so powerful they'll be able to break into any known digital code. So even the CIA is worried about the fact that these could become so powerful that they'll allow you to break into any known computer. So these are called quantum computers. Why are they powerful? Because they compute not on transistors, they compete on atoms. And you can't get much smaller than an atom and have stable matter. But that's what quantum computers can do. And they exist. This is not science fiction. They already exist.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so think of this as a cell, and the cell could either be switched on or If you take a computer to open it up, what do you find? Switches like this. The co transistors transistors that tell you whether it's on or off. Now that's digital. This is the revolution of today. This is the revolution of tomorrow. Not just up or down of in between. How many states are there between zero and one? In principle, an infinite number of states between zero and one. So this is the basis of a digital computer.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is The future. This is a quantum computer. It's a computer that computes not on transistors, which is old fashioned. It computes on atoms. Think about that. The ultimate object beyond the transistors that you can compute with is the atom. And how do transistors work? Transistors can be up or down, up or down. It's called digital.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're mortal, in principle they could negligive forever, and so it means that the secret of immortality is tantalizing close. We do know that there are cells that make immortality possible, but there's a price to pay. The price to pay is you don't want cancers to also follow you. So here's a chick of the game. We have a whole bunch of top people in the sciences and medicine looking for ways to extend the human lifespan with the telomers without waking up the cancers that make cancer possible.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, at the end of our chromosomes of every cell is something called the telomers, and the telomers are like a clock. They get shorter every time a cell reproduces, and when the telomer gets so short, it frays falls apart and you die. So we have a time limit. We've also discovered telomerase, a chemical that stops the clock. This was incredible when it was first announced that if there's a clock in our body called the telomers that tracks how long we're going to live, and there's something called telomerase which stops the clock, then can we live forever? Well, that was the good news. The bad news was we found out that most of our shock cancer also uses telomers and telomerase to live forever. Why does cancer kill you?”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think we'll probably be on the moon, maybe untom Mars, and perhaps even Jimaba setting the first space probes even beyond that. We're talking about being able to use artificial intelligence to send probes out there. Of course, we're not going to go to the stars. That's a few hundred years into the future. But I think that we will begin to understand the solar system within this century. And this also means that we'll have artificial intelligence, a cure for cancer, and maybe one will aid the other. Maybe artificial intelligence will help us to cure cancer and many diseases. And longevity perhaps will begin to process of solving the immortality crisis.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think the universe is more fascinating no matter how fast we are with physics and the mathematics of physics, pure mathematics is still more profound”
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“Well, when I look at the animals, that makes me triply impressed the fact that animals cannot share in that, that we see a universe that the animals cannot see. We see patterns, we see meaning, we give rhyme and reason to what we see. With animals it says where's my dinner?”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because so far the theories that we do have almost like magic. You look at the history of the equations of physics and you realize they get simpler and simpler and simpler with time. You can write down Newton's equation, Baxter's equations, the equation for the nuclear force on one sheet of paper, one sheet of paper. The force that governs gravity, we don't have that yet, but we have the other forces and the equations are very simple. And that's why I think that the final equation will also be simple.”
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“Well, it's what I'm seeking for my entire life, and that is we want that one equation which is the secret of the universe. We have the electromagnetic force equation that's like half an inch long. We have the equation for gravity that's also about half an inch long. So why not the theory of everything maybe an inch long? We're not there yet, but I think it does exist, and if we were to find it, that would give us an understanding of the entire universe. And I think we're very close.”
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“Well, I think it's for certain that we're gonna go not just to the moon but to Mars, and maybe even beyond that. Maybe not in our lifetime, but in our grandchildren's lifetime, we may break through and visit other planets within our solar system. Now, to go beyond that would require some sort of warp drive because of the fact that the nearest star is probably orbiting Alpha Centauri, which is four and a half light years away from the planet Earth. So you realize it would take hundreds, if not thousands of years, to begin the colonization of the nearby star systems.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's true too, because before we couldn't destroy ourselves, now for the first time in human history, we have the potential of destroying ourselves with designer germs, with nuclear weapons, with perhaps artificial intelligence. We didn't have that capability before, and it's only been in the last eighty years or so as a consequence. So I think that, first of all, it means that every decade tremendous progress is made. There's no doubt about that. But second, run a knife's edge. You tilt it the wrong way, and there's world war, you tilt it the other way, and there's food and luxury for everyone. But my point is decade by decade, we see the enormous progress that we humans have made. The next question is, what about the next few decades? That's a big question mark.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I like to look at it slightly differently. I say to myself what is the smallest unit of history? And I say it's the decade. Anything smaller than a decade you get random fluctuations, noises, accidents taking place on a decade. But if you look at human history decade by decade by decade, you realize that, oh my God, just a few decades ago, it was horse and buggy. Before that, we would just had ploughs. Before that, we were barbarians. And you begin to realize that we've come a long ways. Not that we hit the end, but we come a long ways just in the decade by decade analysis of the history of the human race.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I like to think of a slightly differently. I think on the other side of the Milky Way galaxy there's an alien. Who's writing the same equation that I'm writing down right now in different language, in different notations, but he's also discovering string theory, and there are a lot of galaxies out there, each one with an individual saying, gee, I think I discovered something new about the universe. And these laws are universal. The equations that I'm writing down right now are identical in different language, with the equations that they're writing down billions of light years from this. And that gives me a sense of oneness. It gives me a sense that wow, we're part of a fellowship, we're part of a camaraderie, we're on the same question, a quest to understand the nature of matter and energy. We're on the same boat. Even though we speak different language, even though we're on different sides of the universe, we're all part of the same club.”
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“It's possible. When you look at the night sky, You're overwhelmed by the majesty of the night sky, and then he realized that we're nothing but a dot, a dot on the gigantic disc called the Milky Way galaxy, and if this is the Milky Way galaxy, then here we are thinking that this is the entire universe. There's nothing but a pinpoint on the Milky Way galaxy and how many galaxies are there. We're talking about trillions of galaxies.”
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“Not necessarily, you can have an infinite number of things that don't repeat. So in other words. You don't necessarily have to have another civilization that is exactly like ours. You could, but it's not necessary if you believe in an infinite universe.”
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“A version of the Mini World theory. But most Mini World theory simply says that there's an infinite number of universes and worlds out there. None of them necessarily identical to ours, but independent of us that that is a distinct possibility”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, if you take a look at the human condition, you realize that warfare has been an integral part of our evolution as a species. And even in the animal kingdom, animals will fight against other animals. And so my hope, however, is that we're different from the animals. We have a brain. We can make moral decisions. Animals do not understand the meaning of a moral decision. Animals is survival is who's stronger, who has the food. We don't necessarily have to engage in that conflict, and so I would hope that we use the brain that we have to think through and create a better world.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To win this war I used to sing a song in the morning I want to go to Vietnam, I want to kill a Charlie Kong. I used to sing that every morning at four o'clock in the morning. And then I ask myself now why were we on the right side of the wrong side, and then at that point he began to question what is right and what is wrong, and then you realize maybe among the wrong side.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And the GI says, No, no, no, get away from me. I don't want candy. While Little Boy showed what was in his hand, it was a hand grenade. It was not candy at all, and the little boy threw the hand grenade at the sergeant. Well, the sergeant immediately saw what the danger was, and he hit the ground as soon as he could flat on the ground. The grenade exploded and one half of his body got saturated with shrapnel, and then he had to ask yourself a question Why would a young boy do something like this? It's because he believed in something and I think there was a real big lesson for me and that is you have to believe in something. You have to believe in the goodness of men and also the fact that men can do evil, and you have to fight for what you think is right. And therefore it's not just a question of we're number one.”
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“That there is a morality there I began to realize that the people that we were fighting had their own religion. They had their own way of looking at good and evil and whatever, and they were willing to sacrifice their life for their own freedom. I began to question religion at that point. Is it just a glue that holds people together? Is there a deeper meaning to the whole thing? So one day I was learning how to throw hand grenades, and our sergeant who was explaining to us how to throw hand grenade had scars on one side of his face, big scars on his neck. And we asked him why. And he said, Well, one day a little Vietnamese boy came up to him. And the Vietnamese boy says, Candy, candy, you want candy.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I was in the United States Army for two years. And at that point I had to face death, and I had to face war. It was the height of the Vietnam War there were five hundred GIs dying every week, every week. Life magazine published an issue where they had the pictures, just the pictures with no commentary of all the GIs that died that week, with no commentary, no I told you so, just the pictures of those people that died. And then I realized that I would have to put my life on the line'cause my number was up, and people were going into the military. And people were realizing well war is the way people, you know, work out their differences But then I began to realize being in the military.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I'm agnostic. I believe that it's a lot of truth because it's a way of behaving. It's a way of learning how to be good to your neighbor. It's a glue that holds things together. Not that it gives meaning for life, but it shows the way.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it's a fairy tale. I think it's a very compelling fairy tale. But I think that even the people who teach religion realize it. That we don't really mean twenty four hours in a day because that deals with the earth. In the universe, there could be other worlds where a day is not 24 hours, a day does not look like what the Bible says in Genesis. So I think it's a way to organize your religion into a way that is digestible and people can understand it. And it touches people, which is the purpose of religion. The purpose of religion is to touch people, to bring them together into a commonality. And that's what the story of Genesis does. Religion, in some sense, is a way to help people, to show people guidance, the good life, so that you don't terrorize other people, that you make life better for other people. Not that it explains the meaning of existence, but it gives you a reason for existence.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think there's evolution and evolution did create life forms that are single celled, multicelled, and then cells with a nervous system like fish, and then fish became land a moving organisms. So I think there's a linear progression in”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Probably if you take a look at empty space, we now believe that empty space is frothing, frothing with little bubbles, bubbles that pop into existence and then annihilate and go back into nothingness again. So even pure nothingness is chalk full of activity, and one day we think, one day one of these tiny little bubbles decided not to go back into the vacuum, but to keep on expanding and expanding, and that became the Big Bang. And so the theory says that the universe's dynamic and that universes are being created all the time.”
2026-05-21 · The Diary of a CEO · World-Renowned Physicist: The Truth About Aliens! UFOs Are Definitely Robotic - Michio Kaku · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT