05/27/2026
The Big Bang never happened. At least, not the way you were taught. Dr. Michio Kaku, co-founder of String Field Theory and one of the most famous physicists alive, explains that the term "Big Bang" is a misnomer that disguises our ignorance. In string theory, the universe did not explode into existence. It bounced. It collapsed to an unimaginably small point and then expanded outward again. And this process is still happening. New universes are being created all the time.
Steven asks the most fundamental question in science: where did everything come from? Kaku takes him through the full picture, starting with the expansion of the universe. Every star is moving away from every other star, like dots on the surface of a balloon being inflated. Running that expansion backward leads to a single point roughly 14 billion years ago. But Kaku says the standard story stops too early. String theory goes further: it says the universe did not begin with an explosion but with a collapse that reversed, and that our universe is just one bubble in an infinite bath of bubbles, each one a separate universe.
Discover:
• Why a world-renowned physicist says the Big Bang never actually happened
• How string theory shows the universe bounced rather than exploded
• Why everything in existence is made from one single vibrating string
• The reason we likely live in 11 dimensions rather than four
• What dark matter actually is according to string theory
• Why a physicist believes black holes are gateways to other universes
• How new universes are being created right now from nothingness
The Big Bang never happened. At least, not the way you were taught....