That was indeed the main idea of my video, just to put these 2 geniuses who both think outside the box and see what happens. I proposed this to PBS as an idea for a series, but never got a reply so this was a unique on-camera encounter. I also made some films with Quentin Crisp, Dr. John Lilly, and Robert Anton Wilson...with the idea of making a series of "thought operas" which are not about one simple subject but wander off in unexpected directions.
Funny thing is at this point in time a lot of people kinda saw kaku as sort of a quack ,,, back then he'd say wild stuff in a manner that was fact without a good reminder to the lamen that it may or may not be a mainstream theory,,,,, one of the guys nerd quirks that hurt him in the beginning
@@gfdia35 - At this point in time Dr. KAKU had a really great radio show with live call in called "All Things Considered" and he was very popular for connecting science and world policy. He won a very prestigious teaching post and was soon invited to speak as the perky science expert on many topics on TV. So I don't think I agree with your analysis.
the science of comedy...the magic of the mundane;;;these are tools to make life better. I enjoy hearing about the process analysed by such creative powerhouses.
Some years ago the Hubble-constant was calculated to be 42, I bet the astronomers fell out of their chairs when they got that result :-) Now it has been revised to 70-something.
It is true that 42 is a very ordinary number - and so the many attempts to find some great significance in the number are fanciful, at best, especially when they don't have any basis in Adams's own writings. But it's unfortunate that, in all his interviews and comments about HHGG and esp. the number 42, he never once admits that he borrowed from Lewis Carroll, which is quite important to the question of the SOURCE of the number (When asked about Caroll in an interview [Heavy Metal, March 1984] he totally dodged the question thus: “when I was a little kid, and it frightened me to bits and I couldn't bear it since then.”). But his borrowing is transparently obvious : 1) at the beginning of the HHGG radio shows when he names the episodes "Fit the First", echoing Carroll's titles for the eight sections of his humorous narrative poem "The Hunting of the Snark, An Agony in Eight Fits" [Carroll is playing on the Old English meaning of "fit(t)" for a division in a narrative poem] 2) in the Milliways slogan “If you've done 6 impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe?” which is lifted nearly verbatim from the White Queen's remarks to Alice in Through the Looking Glass (chapter 5). 3) in the significant use of "42" -- Carroll (a mathematician!) highlights "Rule 42" in the Preface to The Hunting of the Snark (interestingly as the source of the Bellman's problems) AND in Alice in Wonderland (chapter 12 - the King of Hearts appeals to when telling Alice to leave, based on its being "the oldest rule in the book".. which Alice notes appears conveniently made up, and oughtn't the "oldest rule" be Number ONE?!) There are several other uses by Carroll - including in Alice's times-tables gone wrong and even the Queen's age - as students and biographers of Carroll have noted There is no need to suggest anything elaborate or deeply meaningful in Adams's use of the number, but to ask us to deny his debt to Carroll... well that give us the first impossible thing to believe before breakfast.
This is all news to me, and very interesting. I will say though from my trust of the man and knowing how muses work in my own head, his replies to the question seem to relate to why he personally found the number ruse comical. If he became engaged with the number from Lewis and Carroll, he may still have personal reasons why he was attracted to it, his own personal reasons why he finds it satisfying. For sure he created his own unique context. If further he says that Lewis and Carroll writings disturb him, that seems a reason why he would not want to switch the focus off his own inspirations and start talking about early influences, for better or for worse. That said, I love your new input to this and to me it seems fascinating that these two different generations of fantastic authors collided.
The Computer must have solved the halt-problem, too, because he knew in advance how long he would need to compute it. Sadly this point is never mentioned.
This is the tip of the iceberg! I am going to capture this full film and put it online for streaming sometime soon. I will add a link somewhere here in the thread.
Salmon of Doubt audiobook, read by Arthur Dent, is available on Audible and I highly recommend buying it! Late to the party, but during lockdown that introduced me to Richard Dawkins, and through him to Christopher Hitchens.
A amazing and informative interview by people I love and respect, full of amazing information. Quite un-scientific for theoretical physicist (Who have to make the closet and HARDEST research,observations, analysis,changing of variables and educated hypothesis, with things unknown to anyone else, at the edge of the scientific understanding itself) to just say "Well I guess random even numbers run the Universe." Lmao
+Uriel Baca ...Sure but come on, they were at "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" having Tea. Anything can happen there. Trust me, I've been there and I know...
True. Doug co-wrote the screenplay, and the movie was dedicated to him posthumously. I made this film a few decades after shooting the interview. Media has a life of it's own!
Oh Douglas ... Electrons don't move at 186000 miles a second. The field's waves propagate quickly whilst the electrons bob along reluctantly at a couple of meters an hour.
It’s good that Michio Kaku didn’t really intrude in this interview, but I’ve always found it slightly disturbing that Douglas Adams sought to associate with people like him and David Deutsch, people on the fringes of science.
Douglas did not "SEEK" this association, I did. It was my idea. And your idea that Michio is a fringe scientist is a fringe idea of your own. Also; this is only a small excerpt of the interview.
Time for the answer to the ultimately useless ultimate question. "Forty Two" ...!**!!!*! Don't Panic 😊 Do well for those to come, you.. uh .. tap tap.. I'm still here?!? Uh .. We have been dared to. You.. Are We up to it? The dare from all our individual ancecstors for at least the last sevenhundred million years.. °Boooooooooom Love. 🎩 🖖🧙♂️🐸👍🧙♀️
42 in binary is 101010. as an angel number it means love, end of dificult circumstances and start of abundance. There you have it. Finally decoded. Godda love the woo.
Nevermind, you are the director lmao. Still, don't deprive us of a full hour of Michio Kaku and Douglas Adams.. Not everyone has money to spare. Knowledge should be free.
@@MMaRsu - I made a sacrifice to make this film with my own money and I never sold it. So if I ask for the equivalent of a cup of coffee for the fun to see that film unlimited times, you either respect that or not. I am just looking for a way to pay my internet bills.
