Dr Michio Kaku on how to get a Unified Field theory published
Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of Theoretical Physics at CUNY, has written a six-step guide to getting a Unified Field Theory published. Dr. Kaku is the author of Parallel Worlds and Hyperspace, among others. From Dr. Kaku’s article:
1) Try to summarize the main idea or theme in a single paragraph. As Einstein once said, unless a theory has a simple underlying picture that the layman can understand, the theory is probably worthless. I will try to answer those proposals which are short and succinct, but I simply do not have time for proposals where the main idea is spread over many pages.
2) If you have a serious proposal for a new physical theory, submit it to a physics journal, just as Physical Review D or Nuclear Physics B. There, it will get the referee and serious attention that it deserves.
3) Remember that your theory will receive more credibility if your theory builds on top of previous theories, rather than making claims like “Einstein was wrong! ” For example, our current understanding of the quantum theory and relativity, although incomplete, still gives us a framework for which we have not seen any experimental deviation.
I’m a huge fan of Dr. Kaku. I’m in the process of reading Parallel Worlds, and I would very much like to interview him for polyscience.org. (I’ve been working on drafting the questions that I’d like to ask him on and off over the last two weeks.) I don’t hold much hope for a random person coming up with a successful “Theory of Everything,” but it is a nice gesture, even if it is just to cut down on his email workload. The fact that Dr. Kaku replies to his email is unusual enough as it is.
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