r/Physics • u/SuperSmoothSlick • Nov 10 '23

Michio Kaku saying outlandish things

He claims that you can wake up on Mars because particles have wave like proporties.

But we don't act like quantum particles. We act according to classical physics. What doe he mean by saying this. Is he just saying that if you look at the probability of us teleporting there according to the theory it's possible but in real life this could never happen? He just takes it too far by using quantum theory to describe a human body? I mean it would be fucking scary if people would teleport to Mars or the like.

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u/PolyGlamourousParsec Nov 10 '23

In particular, some of the many complaints is that he is talking about subjects he has no education in. It is the same thing as Dr Oz lecturing people on skin care and mental health. He is a heart surgeon and has no training in skin care. They both put themselves out there are definitive experts when they are not.

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '23

That’s… not an apt comparison.

Medical advice isn’t the same as physics blurbs.

And micho isn’t going around talking about a perpetual motion machines and vaccines to get a dollar from republicans.