What if? : serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

What if? Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

Randall Munroe

Book - 2024

"Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators runssponses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.) In celebration of 10 years ...of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read"--

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Subjects
Science > Miscellanea.
Miscellanies.
Humor.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Genres
Miscellanies
Humor
Trivia and miscellanea
Published
New York : Dey Street Books, an imprint of William Morrow 2024.
Language
English
Main Author
Randall Munroe (author)
Edition
10th anniversary edition
Physical Description
xii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780063412644
  • Disclaimer
  • Introduction to the 10th Anniversary Edition
  • Global Windstorm
  • Relativistic Baseball
  • Spent Fuel Pool
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #1
  • New York-Style Time Machine
  • Soul Mates
  • Laser Pointer
  • Periodic Wall of the Elements
  • Everybody Jump
  • A Mole of Moles
  • Hair Dryer
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #2
  • The Last Human Light
  • Machine-Gun Jetpack
  • Rising Steadily
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #3
  • Orbital Submarine
  • Short-Answer Section
  • Lightning
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #4
  • Human Computer
  • Little Planet
  • Steak Drop
  • Hockey Puck
  • Common Cold
  • Glass Half Empty
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #5
  • Alien Astronomers
  • No More DNA
  • Interplanetary Cessna
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #6
  • Yoda
  • Flyover States
  • Falling with Helium
  • Everybody Out
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #7
  • Self-Fertilization
  • High Throw
  • Lethal Neutrinos
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #8
  • Speed Bump
  • Lost Immortals
  • Orbital Speed
  • FedEx Bandwidth
  • Free Fall
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #9
  • Sparta
  • Drain the Oceans
  • Drain the Oceans: Part II
  • Twitter
  • Lego Bridge
  • Longest Sunset
  • Random Sneeze Call
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #10
  • Expanding Earth
  • Weightless Arrow
  • Sunless Earth
  • Updating a Printed Wikipedia
  • Facebook of the Dead
  • Sunset on the British Empire
  • Stirring Tea
  • All the Lightning
  • Loneliest Human
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #11
  • Raindrop
  • SAT Guessing
  • Neutron Bullet
  • Weird (and Worrying) Questions from the What If? Inbox, #12
  • Richter 15
  • Bonus Chapter
  • Acknowledgments
  • References

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