Explorations With Dr. Michio Kaku – May 7, 2002

Explorations with Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York, science program. Headlines: Health – air pollution top 10 most polluted places in USA, most in CA ; Global Warming – Robert Watson removed with Exon-Mobile influence according to “smoking gun” memo ; Outter Space: can now see light back to 12 billion light years 90% of age of Universe (14-15 billion yrs old) ; Trade Center went down because of fires resulting from plane crashes melted the steel, not the jet fuel ; Nuclear Power Plants near cities are terrorist atttack unsafe ; Unsafe Foods discussion continues for next few weeks about French fries, bread, cereals ; GUEST: STEVEN WEINBERG, U. of Texas Physics professor, Nobel Prize Winner, and author of “Facing Up : Science and Its Cultural Adversaries ” [Harvard U, 2001; ISBN: 067400647X ] on topic: science and religion, meaning of the universe.