Great video on Quantum Physics and ET life by Dr Michio Kaku, page 1

Here is a transcript that I've been doing of this interview.

NARRATOR: Hang onto your hats because you're about to go on a heck of a ride through time, space and the multiverse. Dr. Michio Kaku has been described as today's Einstein in many elite circles. Add his genius for comedy and passion for the new frontier of string field theory, of which he is cofounder and you have a veritable standup theoretical physicist comedian.

Dr. Kaku takes subjects that are nearly impossible for our current minds to understand and reduces them to common analogies bringing incredibly exciting new possibilities for mankind into clearer focus. All I can say is, have fun with this one.

INTERVIEWER: You hopscotch humanity through our phases of evolution, from where we are now which seems somewhat primitive on the large cosmic scale, and through this journey you talk about our interface, our conscious interface, with technology, including the world of computers etc.

Can you speak to that a little bit right now in terms of where you think we're going in the not-too-distant future in our interface with technology and then we're going to go on from there.

KAKU: Well, we physicists have asked about what civilization will look like a hundred, a thousand, a million years beyond our technology, and when we look in outer space we actually look for paradigms that we may see.

We look for what are called type 1, type 2 and type 3 civilizations.

We don't look for little green men, we look for the energy signature of planetary, stellar and galactic civilizations.

INTERVIEWER: Where are we in that mix right now?

KAKU: Well, first of all, Type 1 civilization is a planetary civilization. They control the weather: they control earthquakes, volcanoes, anything planetary, they would control. Sooner or later, they exhaust the power of a planet.. hurricanes, tornadoes are child's play for them, and they eventually start to use the power of their star: not just to get a suntan, but to play with solar flares. To literally play with the entire star, to ignite stars, to play with stars, like we play with coal or fire. Eventually, they exhaust the power of a star and they become galactic.

They begin to colonize huge sections of the galaxy and they start to use black holes for example as their primary energy supply.

Now, if you look at this scale, then you have have to wonder, where are we?

We are type 0. We get our energy from dead plants... oil and coal.However, with a calculator, you can calculate when we will advance to these various stages.

If we simply grow at 3% a year, which is very modest economic growth, then energy consumption also grows at 3% and we will hit type 1 in about 100 years.

Now you can already see the emergence of a type 1 civilization everywhere you go. When I open the newspaper, every single headline talks about the birth pang of a type 1 civilization being born right before our eyes.

INTERVIEWER: What's that look like?

KAKU: First of all, the internet, what is the internet? The internet is a type 1 telephone system. That's all it is. We are privileged to be alive to see the birth of a new planetary type 1 telephone system.

The language of type 1 is already out there, most elites already speak English. You can go anywhere on the planet Earth, scientific elite, business elite, cultural elite, and they all speak English, so we're already beginning to see a planetary language being born.

A planetary economy is also being born. Look at the European Union. These nations have killed each other for the last 5000 years, ever since the ice age melted, ended, and why are they banding together to form the European Union?

To oppose us. And who's us? We are NAFTA, okay? So you see the emergence of a type 1 economy emerging.

INTERVIEWER: And globalization and outsourcing is a part of this?

KAKU: A teeny weenie part, just a small part. People react to globalization but they don't realize it's much bigger than just globalization.

We also see the beginning of a type 1 culture. You can go anywhere on the planet Earth and show people two pictures of a man and a woman instantly recognizable by anyone on the planet Earth: Madonna and Arnold Schwarzzenegger.

So, my God. You now know what type 1 culture looks like: it's going to be rock and roll, blue jeans, rap music, hip hop, youth culture. That's going to be the currency, the language that this type 1 civilization is going to speak, going to enjoy.

So we're already beginning to see the beginnings of a type 1 culture, entertainment, language, energy supply, ah politics, the beginning of a language, and the beginning of, just the beginning of a type 1 system.

Now, we are type zero. So the transition from type 0 to type 1 is the most important transition in all of human civilization.

Think about it.

It's the most dangerous of all transitions because there are some people who don't want to be in type 1. They instinctively in their gut know that a type 1 system will be a system of different discourses, of different ideas and clashes of ideas and so on and so forth and these people who don't want this transition are the terrorists.

In their gut, the terrorists know that we're headed for type 1. They can't articulate it, they don't know the larger outlines of it, but in their gut they don't like it. They would rather be in type -1.

So, however, I believe that this transition from type 0 to type 1 is the most important transition in the history of human civilization.

And we are privileged to be alive to see the beginning of this transition. Our children and our grandchildren will complete the greatest transition in the history of the human race.

INTERVIEWER: Is this not inspired by absolute necessity because we can't live off of dead animals and dead plants and fossil fuels indefinitely, is that kind of a ... point?

KAKU: It's being forced upon us. In other words some people say let's stop the clock, maybe we don't want to be a part of a planetary civilization. It's too late.

Look at the economies of the world. Like I said, the European Union is forming without anyone pushing them in that direction because they know it's either the European Union for Europe or else they're going to be wiped out by competition from the United States, China and India. And we already see the young people of the world yearning to get on the internet, yearning to find out what other young people are doing, 'cause young people instinctively know this is their future. They instinctively know "I want to be part of this future."
And so, I think the terrorists would like to prevent the transition, but I don't think they're going to but it is going to be a rocky transition.

Because we do have nuclear weapons. We do have biotech technology, designer germs, and so it may not be a transition that's fully guaranteed.

However, it's a very interesting transition because even filmmakers have been interested in this transition.

Think of a movie that talks about the most scientifically realistic encounter with another intelligent life form in the universe. In this movie, we realize that Capt. Kirk in the Enterprise is the most inefficient way to explore outer space, hopping from planet to planet.

There are 100 billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. Perhaps half of those stars have planets. That's 50 million planets in our galaxy alone.

The most efficient way for a type 3 galactic civilization to explore their back yard is with [binomide][sp??] probes

bi*** probes are self replicating machines, they're robots.

They land on the moon, because the moon is stable, there's no erosion, you can stay there for millions of years, and it makes a carbon copy of itself.

And in fact, it makes a factory that makes millions of copies of itself.

These robot probes then shoot out and land on other moons.

Each one makes a million copies of itself on a moon and then shoots out a million more.

So starting with one you have a million probes landing on a million moons. And then you got a million million probes. And then a million million million probes, until you have a sphere expanding at the speed of light containing these [] probes.

Now, what do they do? They land on the moon and they simply wait.

They wait for a type 0 civilization to become type 1. Type 0 is not so interesting, you have a lot of fights, a lot of wars, a lot of competing ideas and stuff.

Type 1 is planetary. It's very civilized. Very high level of science. Very high level of an economy.

And so the probe simply waits until the civilization makes a transition from type 0 to type 1. Now where have we seen that before? We've all seen this before: this is the movie 2001.

Because Stanley Kubrick in the first five minutes of his film interviewed all the top astronomers, cosmologists and physicists and asked them a question: "What is the most realistic encounter with a type 3 civilization?"

And we laid it out:

They would land on our moon. Our moon is stable: no erosion.

They would then build factories waiting for a type 0 civilization to become type 1.

And if you saw the movie, there is that instant where the astronaut touches the monolith, and he goes like this [puts hands on ears] because an alarm clock goes off, and the alarm clock signals back to the home race "we have come of age."

Well, Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke were off by a hundred years.

It's not going to be ah, the year 2001, it's going to be 2101. In a hundred years we will be type 1. We will have an operating moon base. How long will it take for us to get an operating moon base? 24 hour, 24/7 moon base? Another hundred years.

And so, I think we're right on schedule.

So, maybe on our moon, there's already... who knows? there's already perhaps a presence of an extraterrestrial visitation.

INTERVIEWER: Well there have been, there have been photographs and essays etc. written on the subject of having potential discoveries of structures already existing on the moon, how true might that be?

KAKU: Yeah, well, you see, we have no operating moon base, we simply landed on the moon a few times and therefore we don't know what kind of energy sources there are, we haven't scanned the moon, we don't really have a good picture of what's inside the moon or what probes may exist there.

There could be a probe from a type 3 galactic civilization sitting on the moon and we'd never know it.

Plus they may have nanotechnology. With nanotechnology you don't have to have Captain Kirk and the Enterprise.

They could be as big as a bread box. You could have miniaturized probes that are part organic, part DNA, and part silicon. A merger of carbon and silicon in a device perhaps no bigger than, ah, you know a bread box, sitting on our moon just waiting for us to make contact with it.

Waiting for us to become type one.

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[edit on 28/6/07 by masqua]