Michio Kaku: The "intellectual crush" of many...

Michio Kaku is the reason I first became interested in science on the astronomical level. On the particle level. In the solar system. In physics. In quantum theory.

He is a genius, and much like his colleague, Stephen Hawking, Kaku has made astrophysics and quantum physics massively available to the general populace. He speaks in a simple and straight-forward way: in his career, he is interested in finding "The Theory Of Everything" ... picking up where Einstein left off, trying to flesh out his largest dream --- the God Equation. As a pioneer of String Theory, he has more than already done his part to push the brinks of this field of study, providing explanations for things that the Theory of Relativity doesn't, or finding new ways of looking at them.

"When I was a child of 8, my elementary school teacher came in the room and announced that a great scientist had just died. And on the evening news that night, everyone was flashing pictures of his desk ... with the unfinished manuscript of his greatest work. I wanted to know: what was in that manuscript? Years later, I found out that it was the attempt of Albert Einstein to create a theory of everything. A theory of the universe... and I wanted to be part of that quest." - M. Kaku

 In her personal life, however, Kaku has made his goal to expand the sciences of the quantum, physical, and astronomical words to the general public. Through books that explain things simply and directly, T.V shows that make sense to even the most unscientific among us, and even youtube interviews... Michio Kaku has never devalued the importance of expanding general knowledge of the world around us.

I found it important to pay tribute to his hard work here, and thank him for the inspiration he continually provides to everyone who reads or watches his work.

Although we do not cover massive theories such as String Theory, etc., in Solar System Astronomy... sometimes it is important to remind ourselves that even studying something as large and expansive of the Solar System is still infinitely small compared to the larger worlds we are trying to understand on a daily basis. 

Thanks, Dr. Kaku. :)