What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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The Sunday Times bestseller! From the creator of the wildly popular xkcd.com, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask. Millions visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. Fans ask him a lot of strange questions: How fast can you hit a speed bump, driving, and live? When (if ever) did the sun go down on the British Empire? When will Facebook contain more profiles of dead people than living? How many humans would a T Rex rampaging through New York need to eat a day? In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations and consults nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion. 'Munroe takes inane, useless and often quite pointless questions asked by real humans (mostly sent to him through his website), and turns them into beautiful expositions on the impossible that illuminate the furthest reaches, almost to the limits, of the modern sciences." - Newsweek.
Detaljer
Forlag
John Murray Publishers Ltd
Udgave
0
ISBN
9781848549562
Sprog
engelsk
Sider
336
Udgivelsesdato
24-09-2015
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
2221330
EAN nr.
9781848549562
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.