Scientists you admire

[Bee Gees Fan]

Some names of mine would include:

Albert Einstein
Robert Oppenheimer
Richard Feynman (an interesting person, although I'm disappointed that he was quite narrow-minded where the humanities' subjects were concerned.)
Nikola Tesla
Ronald Mallet
Michio Kaku
Hugh Everett

[Moon-Crane]

Michael Faraday
Galileo Galilei
Edwin Hubble
Charles Darwin

Some modern ones are probably Richard Dawkins and Alexei Fillipenko. And, like you, i do enjoy listening to Michio Kaku.

[Bee Gees Fan]

Some modern ones are probably Richard Dawkins and Alexei Fillipenko. And, like you, i do enjoy listening to Michio Kaku.

I've never actually heard him speak (actually, that's a lie, I did catch a few seconds of him in a documentary once, but that's all) but I've read his book Parallel Worlds.

[Moon-Crane]

Some modern ones are probably Richard Dawkins and Alexei Fillipenko. And, like you, i do enjoy listening to Michio Kaku.

I've never actually heard him speak (actually, that's a lie, I did catch a few seconds of him in a documentary once, but that's all) but I've read his book Parallel Worlds.

He's done a shed load of stuff, and appears on loads of science shows from the last few years, so keep an eye out. He does video blogs on his site, too - i don't know if you already visit it? http://mkaku.org/home/

[Bee Gees Fan]

^ Thank you.

What I like about him is that he explores the ideas of the "out there" stuff, like time travel, parallel universes, etc, etc. And if the book Parallel Worlds is anything to go by, it seems that he believes in the possibility of it and that people may, in the future, be able to travel through time and enter alternate realities. Having only come across the idea of parallel worlds in spiritual and New Age texts, it was nice for me to come across a scientific text exploring the concept.

Also, one of the latest ideas of physics is that of string-theory, also known as m-theory, I believe? In which the basic idea is that everything is connected - which, as I said to a friend of mine who shares some of my interests, is what the spiritualists have been saying for years.

[barnaclelapse]

Those guys and Egon Spengler.

[Moon-Crane]

I've been listening to the Aussie scientist Dr Karl Kruszelnicki on Radio5Live for the last couple of months, and he's a great listen. Mad as a box of monkeys at times, but he knows his stuff. Has a good knack of explaining things in interesting ways.