Speaking to an overflow crowd at Chattanooga State's fitness center, theoretical physicist and futurist, Michio Kaku painted a computer enriched picture of the future in which we may have internet access through a contact lens.
Hats off to President Dr. James Catanzaro for bringing two of the great modern thinkers and communicators to town with first a visit from Neil geGrasse Tyson, head of the Hayden Planetarium, this fall and now Dr. Kaku. With his vision of the future including atom thin transistors and one cent computer chips, the long time professor with City College of New York fascinated his audience of students and local enthusiasts.
However, it was in response to questions from the audience that Dr. Kaku really got warmed up. As one of today's most prominent proponents of string theory, he posits a universe in which his "theory of everything", composed of up to eleven dimensions, could be simply expressed by a one inch long equation.
Both Dr.Tyson and Dr. Kaku are acclaimed for their ability to make the complex concepts of Astrophysics and advanced Theoretical Physics available to the man in the street, and their recent visits to the Chattanooga State campus have been a great opportunity for local admirers to see and hear them in person. Thanks again to Dr. Catanzaro and Chattanooga State.
Garnet Chapin