In the next decade, powerful satellites will help us to understand life, the fate of our universe and the “theory of everything,” says Michio Kaku.

In 2014, the Terrestrial Planet Finder satellite will begin to hunt for small, Earth-like planets in 500 star systems with a telescope designed to screen out the mother stars, whose light otherwise overwhelms the faint radiation from any nearby planets.

Consisting of three satellites linked by laser beams to form a huge triangle of laser light about three million miles on each side, the 2011-launched Lisa (Laser Interferometry Space Antenna)satellite, by analyzing the precise frequencies and wave-like patterns of the gravity waves emitted at the instant of the Big Bang, should be able to distinguish between them and prove or disprove pre-Big Bang theories.

A space ark could escape the death of the universe itself, by creating huge banks of laser beams and atom smashers to create the unbelievably intense temperatures, energy and densities necessary to open up holes in space and leave the universe, then shooting nanobots through the wormhole to create huge DNA factories to grow clones and replicas of their creators and their universe.