Getting a grip on the creation and ultimate fate of the universe is one of the great scientific stories of the twentieth century. In the twenty-first, the story is expanding to enfold many universes. Michio Kaku's dazzling book tells that new story. Using the latest astronomical data, he explores the Big Bang, theories of everything, and our cosmic future. His wonderfully clear scientific account leads to some mind-boggling speculations about the human implications of this story. Are we condemned to watch a single universe slowly run down, becoming a dark, cold wasteland? Or can we dream of escaping into one of many parallel universes, each born of a new Big Bang, or even existing in another dimension? Kaku shows how the new cosmology points to these and other astonishing possibilities.

加來道雄(Michio Kaku)博士，美籍日裔人，紐約城市大學研究生中心的理論物理學教授，世界著各物理學傢、著名的科學暢銷書作者。他的著作都廣受贊譽，《構想未來》、《超越愛因斯坦和超空間》、《平行宇宙》，均被《紐約時報》和《華盛頓郵報》提名為當年的最佳科學讀物之一。他主持著一檔全美國聯網的科學廣播節目，還在《曉聞熱綫》、《60分鍾》、《早安美國》以及《拉裏·金直播在綫》之類的全美國性電視節目中亮相。