The Truth Is in the Stars Page #4

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for the future.

A little card you put

in a box to get data,

I'm good with that,

but those doors that open up

just by walking towards them?

That'll never happen!

Somehow I was in

complete denial...

No, it was real!

Of-of automatically

opening doors.

That's hysterical.

And I said we will never have

that for-for a millennium.

That's the fantasy.

The reality is,

there was a guy hidden

behind that door

with a little peephole,

here he comes,

and every so often

that guy fell asleep,

and I'd hit the door

that wouldn't open.

Captain's Log,

Stardate 8169.7,

The Enterprise has just

discovered a strange new planet

in the Gammafallopia

Star System.

Hi, I'm William Shatner,

my car broke down

while I was on my way

to give a speech about how

TV keeps families together.

You might ask how Family Guy

is connected to my

quest for enlightenment.

I love schnitzel.

Well, apart from doing a

brilliant sendup of me...

Oh, my God, I hit

William Shatner!

Light growing dimmer,

can't breathe.

Beam me up, God.

Producer Seth MacFarlane

is also responsible

for reviving Cosmos,

the number one science

show on television.

If I give him a sandwich

maybe he'll be nice to me.

Yeah, are ya hungry?

Uh, you know, I just ate,

but I can eat again for you.

The ultimate sacrifice.

Exactly!

Look, I-I can't believe

what I'm lookin' at.

Yeah, this is, um,

the infamous bowl of spaceships.

That's the one I was on!

It's amazing, we were talking

about this yesterday,

what a brilliant

design this was.

This whole thing is novel!

It's so simple,

its silhouette is

instantly identifiable.

It's a very underratedly

brilliant piece of design.

You know, one of the

reasons I got into TV

was because of the

small character stories,

the morality plays

that you guys did and

the characters never

set those phasers on

kill unless they had to,

and it affected me,

and it's the reason

that nowadays,

if I find a spider in my house,

I gotta catch it

and put it outside,

because Star Trek set out to

teach us that everything

has a right to exist.

Wow!

Until it screws up.

Then you kill it!

Then it's gone.

I'm fascinated by

the idea that you,

with your reputation of

animation and comedy

and outrageous comedy

suddenly veer into

producing Cosmos,

and you were instrumental

in reviving it

with the host of

Neil deGrasse Tyson.

It all goes back to

when I was a kid,

when I was a teenager,

I was in high school,

I had your show and

the show following,

to present an

optimistic view of,

which by the way,

is something that's

very lacking right now.

Science fiction has gotten

very, very dystopian.

A lot of people get their

science from entertainment,

and I wonder what that's doing.

I wonder what the absence

of that exciting, hopeful,

optimistic vision that

you guys presented,

without that I wonder what...

What-what's exciting

kids today

who are into that genre?

If you were going to go

to Dr. Stephen Hawking...

Mm-hmm.

What would you ask him?

I would say, what's

your best guess?

- At?

- That would be my question...

At everything,

and is there some

higher dimensional

uh, lens that we're

seeing our world through?

So, I would say to him,

with everything that you know,

and your knowledge

of mathematics

and quantum physics and such,

what-what-what is

your best guess

uh, as to the actual

physical nature of the universe?

And-and, uh,

and-and I'm

sure he would,

'cause he's a responsible guy,

I'm sure he would say,

"I have no f***in' idea."

Okay, this may be the

greatest deli sandwich

you've ever had.

There's no way this is

gonna be all over my shirt?

Oh, my God.

Yeah, you know what we forgot?

We forgot napkins.

No, didn't forget that at all.

Your magic sack.

It goes on, it's endless!

I have a spaceship in there!

New York's Central Park

is an oasis of calm

in a hectic world.

An ideal place for

a conversation

on deeper subjects,

time, space,

and the mysteries

of the universe.

Michio Kaku is a renowned

futurist and

theoretical physicist.

Some say

he's pushing the boundaries

of modern physics,

dreaming in the realm

of science fiction.

I'm about to find out.

Michio.

- Ah, Mr. Shatner!

- How are you?

Great honor!

Bill, please, please.

So, I've asked

you to come here...

Yes.

Uh, in the park,

because all life is connected.

The religious philosophies by,

by people who lived

before technology,

they deduced intuitively

that everything was connected.

Many religions believe

that the universe is one.

Think of The Big Bang,

when the entire universe

came out of something

smaller than an electron.

Everything you see around us

was connected at the

instant of The Big Bang.

Oh!

And when the Bang took place,

we got separated,

but in some sense all

matter in the universe

has connection

with every other

piece of matter,

'cause we all came

from the same bang.

Well I love that idea.

The Big Bang is an-an

incredible concept

as to the beginning

of this universe.

I mean, nobody thought

of that before.

That's right.

See Einstein had the theory,

but The Big bang was

too much for him.

Nature has two hands.

One hand is a theory

they're very big.

The other theory is

the quantum theory.

The theory of little

tiny electrons.

But why should nature

have two hands

but you don't talk

to each other?

How can nature combine

the big with the small

into a single theory?

How?

That is the number one

problem in physics today.

That's the mystery!

Yeah, it's still a mystery,

we don't know.

The leading theory

is string theory.

We think the string

theory, in fact,

is the only candidate

which can meld the big and

the small into a single,

comprehensive theory that works.

I understand the English,

but the sense of it,

what does that mean?

Well, we think that ultimately,

particles are made out of

tiny vibrating strings.

From a distance they

look like a particle,

but up close they're

really vibrating strings.

The only paradigm of

nature that is rich enough

to explain this enormous variety

of things we see around us

is music!

Strings have many frequencies.

Each frequency corresponds

to a particle,

to a whole universe

of interactions.

And as it vibrates it

creates quantum mechanics,

all the quantum particles,

and as it moves in

space and time

it forces the stage

of life to curl up

exactly as Einstein predicted.

So in a very simple way,

we can combine both

Einstein's theory

and the quantum theory

and together they

comprise everything.

So the music of the

string is all the particles

and chemistry is

nothing but the melodies

you can play on these

vibrating strings.

I love what you're doing.

And then the universe is

a symphony of strings.

Ah!

These are the exact

quotes of Einstein.

He said he wanted to, quote,

"Read God's thoughts."

The leading candidate for

reading the mind of God

is cosmic music.

Cosmic music resonating

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