Author Topic: Michio Kaku (Read 3517 times)

Silent · « **on:** December 30, 2010, 07:07:07 PM »

I looked through this section of the boards and was surprised to not find a thread for Michio Kaku. He is far and away my favorite guest Art has ever had on. I've managed to find a lot of his old interviews and relisten to them once in a while. I've yet to get his interviews done with Noory. I just can't see him asking very good questions.

Mr. Kaku has a great way of helping the average guy understand space and physics to a certain extent. Not only does he make it understandable but it's entertaining. I get the feeling that he only makes me feel like I understand when I really don't but i'm okay with that. If anyone has a cache of his old interviews and might be able to fill in my blanks please let me know. I can give exact dates if needed.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #1 on:** December 30, 2010, 07:42:04 PM »

Michio Kaku is also one of my favorite guests, I have all his shows he did with Art plus have all of his books..been a while since I have heard him but do see him on the History International Channel and Discovery..

http://mkaku.org/

coastfan · « **Reply #2 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:16:12 PM »

Professor Kaku has/had his own call-in radio show. I was able to tune into it a few times at night, with limited reception, the show not airing in my market.

Agent : Orange · « **Reply #3 on:** December 30, 2010, 09:22:23 PM »

I have a bit of a story about this guest.

I first heard coast to coast around 1995 when I happened to catch it with my Father. While I liked the show I couldn't really get into it because of high school and the schedule I was on, except the odd weekend. In 1997 after I graduated high school I began my first year of University, studying Fine Arts. That fall I was up at a friend's cabin for a weekend. We smoked a joint and threw on the radio and happened to stumble across C2C. It was the first time my friend had heard it ever, and the first time I had come back to the show in a long time. The guest was a guy who was talking about the weirdest stuff - time travel, black holes and the 10th dimension. Unlike most of the guests on the show, he seemed to have an air of expertise and spoke with authority on these esoteric topics. It was Michio Kaku.

I was hanging on his every word. He had me hook line and sinker.

When I got back in town I raced to the nearest bookstore to pick up the book "that guy on C2C wrote". I devoured his book Hyperspace and then started looking around for other books by Kaku, Sagan, Hawking and Einstein. I was so amazed by this new intellectual landscape in front of me that I dropped out of Fine Arts, went back to high school and picked up my physics, math and chemistry. This was no small task - all my life I had problems with mathematics and the physical sciences. A lot of people told me I was crazy when they heard I was going to do this. This time, I *wanted* to do well in these subjects and learn the material so I could more fully understand the theories that interested me. I nailed all of my courses and when I went back to University two years later I was accepted into the Faculty of Science and began to study physics. I earned my BSc with full honors in 2004 and I'm now working on my Ph.D. in Astrophysics.

If it weren't for hearing Michio Kaku talk about this stuff that night I would never have found his book and I would never have made the moves that I did. I owe my current path in life to his book Hyperspace and that Coast to Coast episode in 1997!

valdez · « **Reply #4 on:** December 31, 2010, 05:50:28 AM »

Cool story.

Silent · « **Reply #5 on:** December 31, 2010, 05:15:35 PM »

Quote from: ArtBellFan on December 30, 2010, 07:42:04 PM

Michio Kaku is also one of my favorite guests, I have all his shows he did with Art

If you have the time would you be so kind to post the show from 1997-11-20 ? This would be the 3rd show he did with Art from the references I've searched. I remember spending hours a few months ago trying to track down as many of his appearances as I could find but this is one of them that is elusive.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #6 on:** December 31, 2010, 05:31:44 PM »

I have the interview in .ra format and cannot upload it here, will try to do it via yousendit.com and put a link here. You will need to download Real Player to listen to it if you don't have it..

Also have it mp3 format but will have to find it if this doesn't work.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #7 on:** December 31, 2010, 05:40:54 PM »

Here is the link to download the show, if you don't have a recorder I believe totalrecorder.com has a free version you can use to record it in mp3 format, there are also programs out there that covert .ra file to mp3 but haven't found one that works before the years 2000.

Enjoy Silent

Art Bell - Michio Kaku - 11-20-97

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&send_id=1016905377&email=77209d076bef70a975e07ff0c2e49ca0

Silent · « **Reply #8 on:** December 31, 2010, 05:52:35 PM »

That's amazingly fast and generous of you. Any format is fine. Thanks a ton!

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #9 on:** December 31, 2010, 06:06:58 PM »

Just so happened that a friend and Art Bell Fan sent me three CD's in 2003, most of them are .ra files from 97, 98 and 99, there are many Dreamland shows on those CD's, over time I have recorded them to mp3 format. We used to have a pay forward program and I sent out and recieved hundreds of shows, some of these shows are available here..
http://home.comcast.net/~labvid/flash/hold/MediaFire.html

Here is the link to the, wanna take a ride and then click onto the Art Bell Logo graphic

http://home.comcast.net/~labvid/flash/cotn.htm home page.

Click on the link download here, there will ultimately be two links, one is to download all the shows and the other is to record Art Bell shows going back to 2004, you have to be streamlink member to record those, I will also attach the zip file here.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #10 on:** December 31, 2010, 08:10:53 PM »

Quote from: Agent : Orange on December 30, 2010, 09:22:23 PM

If it weren't for hearing Michio Kaku talk about this stuff that night I would never have found his book and I would never have made the moves that I did. I owe my current path in life to his book Hyperspace and that Coast to Coast episode in 1997!

Thanks for sharing your story and good luck to you, I wish something like that would happened to me when I was in high school, by the time I heard Michio Kaku it was too late for me, I own all of Kaku's books and also devour them, theoretical physics is one of my passions along with ancient archeology.

HAL 9000 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 01, 2011, 12:28:21 AM »

Quote from: Silent on December 31, 2010, 05:15:35 PM

If you have the time would you be so kind to post the show from 1997-11-20 ?

Art Bell
&
Dr. Michio Kaku

Interviews from August, September and November of 1997. Audio quality varies as the original format stream was often Real Audio (.ra) which was a proprietary codec which adjusts it's bitrate based on download speed. Sometimes the quality is pretty bad compared to today, but there's no way around it.

I have a batch RA converter so I did many shows all at once.

1997.08.22.c2c.archive.Art.Bell.Michio.Kaku.on.Physics.mp3
1997.09.24.c2c.archive.Art.Bell.Michio.Kaku.Explorations.in.Science.mp3
1997.11.20.c2c.archive.Art.Bell.Michio.Kaku.mp3

Unfortunately, I'm unable to upload attachments, so you can download all 3 shows at the single link below.

Click: HERE to get the shows.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #12 on:** January 01, 2011, 12:34:28 AM »

Thanks Hal, but I don't have the rar program, when I did years ago I thought it was a nightmare.

M. Knight · « **Reply #13 on:** January 01, 2011, 12:37:39 AM »

Quote from: ArtBellFan on January 01, 2011, 12:34:28 AM

Thanks Hal, but I don't have the rar program, when I did years ago I thought it was a nightmare.

try frog

http://download.cnet.com/Free-RAR-Extract-Frog/3000-2250_4-10804840.html

Agent : Orange · « **Reply #14 on:** January 01, 2011, 03:52:30 PM »

Thanks so much for posting these Hal! I haven't heard any of Kaku's earlier shows. I'm pretty sure the November show was the one I heard way back when.

Cheers

Silent · « **Reply #15 on:** January 01, 2011, 09:57:25 PM »

Quote from: coastfan on December 30, 2010, 09:16:12 PM

Professor Kaku has/had his own call-in radio show. I was able to tune into it a few times at night, with limited reception, the show not airing in my market.

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/complete/51

That appears to be a complete archive of his radio shows. I've just downloaded his most recent one to check out. I was able to find that through his own website so it looks to be legitimate and free.

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #16 on:** January 01, 2011, 10:55:51 PM »

Sorry but posted two Michio Kaku shows in Take A Stand thread..

http://www.coastgab.com/index.php/topic,2149.0.html

HAL 9000 · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2011, 11:02:25 PM »

Quote from: Silent on January 01, 2011, 09:57:25 PM

That appears to be a complete archive of his radio shows. I've just downloaded his most recent one to check out. I was able to find that through his own website so it looks to be legitimate and free.

I'm working on a simple script which will allow one to download the entire archive at once... We'll see how my tests go....

ArtBellFan · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2011, 11:29:21 PM »

Art Bell - Michio Kaku - 2-24-98
Art Bell - Michio Kaku - 12-18-02

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ArtBellFan · « **Reply #19 on:** January 01, 2011, 11:43:40 PM »

Art Bell - Michio Kaku - 08-22-97
Was able to copy to my PC from another CD.

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HAL 9000 · « **Reply #20 on:** January 02, 2011, 12:28:40 AM »

Quote from: HAL 9000 on January 01, 2011, 11:02:25 PM

I'm working on a simple script which will allow one to download the entire archive at once... We'll see how my tests go....

Oh Jeez-oh-pizza...

Script is working fine, but that server is excruciatingly slow, only 60KBps, so will take me 6x longer to confirm links. Once it's done, I can post the script or direct links for entire archive, so that anyone will be able to download at your convenience.

Agent : Orange · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2011, 03:31:04 AM »

Wow this is great! Thanks again all

Silent · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2011, 02:16:35 PM »

Some great shows here, I've finished the all.

One part that made me chuckle was Michio Kaku describing how soon we will have internet on watches and on flat screen TV's built into our walls. He didnt call them flat screens, I forget the term he used but that's basiclly what he meant. Art sounded amazed and I'm sure at the time I would've been too. This was from the Novermber '97 show I think. Michio the prophet!

Silent · « **Reply #23 on:** January 03, 2011, 05:49:07 PM »

I've been listening to the latest podcasts (linked above) and they're pretty cool. They're not very long but he gets right into things and goes pretty in depth. He advertised for his TV show on the Science channel in one of them so I decided to check that out too. It looks like it's based off his Science of the Impossible book. It's a decent show but his podcasts and interviews with Art are much better I think. The show seems more for mainstream and doesn't get too technical. Some of the things him and Art would get into I could never quite understand. One of the shows posted above has him getting into details about what exactly gravity is. It seems like such a simple concept at first but I don't really understand Mr. Kaku's explanation.

ArtBellFan, you said you have all of his books. Which one would be best to start with?

coastfan · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2011, 06:29:21 PM »

Yeah, from the little bit of Professor Kaku's show that I heard on the air, it sounded very 'produced', very much a 'product', though not necessarily a bad one. Just not a 'trip' like when he went on Coast with Art.

Agent : Orange · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2011, 09:02:23 PM »

Part of the difficulty with doing shows like this is that Kaku has to distill down complicated subjects into bite-size pieces an audience not familiar with mathematics can digest. The problem of explaining gravity is one of these issues. General Relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation based on space-time geometry, is highly mathematical and very complicated. Explaining it in plain English on the radio rather than calculus can be quite difficult. The "rubber sheet" analogy works well, but it is limited in it's own ways. This is the example that's usually given to explain gravity according to GR.

Also, thanks again for the link to Kaku's show! I listened to the last one he did at the end of December 2010, and I thought it was interesting though nothing beats the interviews when Art was behind the wheel. As part of the audience I found it fascinating to listen to Art pick at Kaku's brain, and he usually asked some very good questions.

Michael Vandeven · « **Reply #26 on:** January 04, 2011, 02:04:32 AM »

Quote from: ArtBellFan on December 31, 2010, 05:31:44 PM

I have the interview in .ra format and cannot upload it here, will try to do it via yousendit.com and put a link here. You will need to download Real Player to listen to it if you don't have it..

Also have it mp3 format but will have to find it if this doesn't work.

i have modified the system to allow the upload of .ra files. please let me know if it doesn't work for you.

HAL 9000 · « **Reply #27 on:** January 04, 2011, 04:05:41 AM »

Quote from: Silent on January 01, 2011, 09:57:25 PM

http://www.kpfa.org/archive/show/complete/51

That appears to be a complete archive of his radio shows. I've just downloaded his most recent one to check out. I was able to find that through his own website so it looks to be legitimate and free.

I meant to post yesterday on this topic - my script successfully downloaded 384 shows from Michio Kaku's Explorer radio series.

So there are numerous options if you want them:

1) I can post the small little program I wrote which will download all the shows for you (you must be able to follow a few simple directions!)
2) I can send you a .lst file, which you can import into Flashget, and Flashget will download them for you.
3) I suspect that even a text file with the links would suffice to copy into any download manager to download all 6 1/2 years
4) I could posts the links in this thread which you just click on to download, except that you'd have to click on all 384 to get them - not very efficient.
5) MV allows RAR and ZIP extensions as attachments, and I upload each year separately - each year is slightly over 500MB - my Rapidshare filesize limit is 500MB, so missed it by 2 shows

Quite frankly, option #1 is the best - but only if there's interest - otherwise no point. Their server is slow - max download rate just under 60KBps, so takes about 18 hours to download all 384 shows. Each show is roughly 10MB.

That's the Kaku update for tonight

HAL 9000 · « **Reply #28 on:** January 04, 2011, 10:19:02 PM »

Explorations in Science
Dr. Michio Kaku

Below you'll find a link to a little program I wrote, which will automatically download EVERY Explorations in Science radio show that Michio Kaku has done - from mid-2003 to the end of 2010. A total of 383 one hour shows.

The program creates its own folders, downloads, and automatically renames the files for you into a standard nomenclature, so that they are sorted by date when viewed in Windows Explorer. You MUST follow the simple directions though, or it will not work.

I have tried to make it idiot-proof - but you must follow the directions. Once started, my advice would be to let it run until all 383 shows have been downloaded - the server they're located on is slow - about 60KB/s, so will take about 18 hours to complete. Should you somehow get disconnected during the download, if you rerun the program, it will check to see if the shows exist on your hard drive, and skip those it has already downloaded. The ONLY down-side is, if you stopped the download before completion, there will be one show which is incomplete - a partial show. Before restarting the download process, you should delete that show, so the program will know to download the complete show upon restarting. As I mentioned, this would ONLY occur if you stopped the download process before getting all the shows.

INSTRUCTIONS - MUST FOLLOW EXACTLY

!) download the program via the link at the bottom of this post. It will only take a second - it is very small. The name of the file is Michio.Kaku.setup.exe
2) make sure and download the Michio.Kaku.setup.exe file to the ROOT of your C:\ drive. It will not work unless it is located in the ROOT of C:\... if downloaded into another folder somewhere, MOVE it to C:\ - do not place in any other folder.
3) Using Windows Explorer, go to C:\ and find Michio.Kaku.setup.exe. Double-click on the file. Doing this will "silently" install the main program and create the necessary folders for you. It all happens in a fraction of a second without you seeing anything.
4) Using Windows Explorer, you'll now note you have a folder on your C:\ drive named Michio.Kaku. You're almost ready!
5) Inside the Michio.Kaku folder you'll see a file called Michio.Kaku.Explorer.download.exe - it has a tiny mp3 player icon.
6) Double-click on Michio.Kaku.Explorer.download.exe, and your download will start. A black box will appear show you the progress.
7) Go about your business - it's all automatic from here.

As I previously mentioned, I'd suggest you NOT stop the downloading process, as doing so will leave a partial file (show) - but no harm done. Should this happen - you get disconnected or you stop the downloads before completion of all 383 shows, simply go back and delete the partial show. All shows are approximately 10.5MB in size, so all 383 shows will take up a little less than 4GB. The program will close automatically when finsihed.

If you're a Michio Kaku freak, then you'll have fun accessing any and every show he's every done.

The renaming nomenclature I used is as follows: (examples)

Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2004.12.14.mp3
Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2004.12.21.mp3
Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2004.12.28.mp3
Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2005.01.04.mp3
Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2005.01.11.mp3
Michio.Kaku.Explorations-2005.01.18.mp3

sorted by year-month-day

Click: HERE to get the download file and place in C:\

Happy downloading.

guildnavigator · « **Reply #29 on:** January 04, 2011, 11:09:28 PM »

hot damn, HAL, thanks for the all this kaku material!