Michio Kaku (Japanese : カク ミチオ, 加来 道雄 , born January 24, 1947) is an American theoretical physicist , futurist , and popularizer science . He is a professor of theoretical physics in the City college of New York and CUNY graduate center . Kaku is the author of several books about physics and related topics and has made frequent appearances on radio, television, and film. He is also a regular contributor to his own blog, as well as other popular media outlets. For his efforts to bridge science and science fiction, he is a 2021 Sir Arthur Clarke Lifetime Achievement Awardee. His books physics of the impossible (2008), physics of the future (2011), The future of the mind (2014), and The God equation : The Quest for a theory of everything (2021) became New York time ...