What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Hardcover
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Beschreibung

From the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd, hilarious and informative answers to important questions you probably never thought to ask.
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe’s iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following.
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?
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. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by signature xkcd comics. They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.
The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the xkcd website. What If? will be required reading for xkcd fans and anyone who loves to ponder the hypothetical.
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4

Fun read!

I'm not a person that is that much into physics/science, but this was quite a fun read! The author makes it understandable, even if you don't have a scientific background and covers a range of fun questions.

5

Eine Zusammenstellung verschiedener Fragen, die irgendwie naturwissenschaftlich sind. Die Antwort auf diese Fragen ist aber so witzig und so treffend formuliert, dass einem die Naturwissenschaft darin gar nicht schwer fällt.

4

A really good insight in how things could probably work, but practically it would be either not possible or a high risk for the human life. Also good to read if you don't have such a big concentration, because the chapters/questions are mostly answered in about 4-5 pages.

5

Funny, witty, nerdy and informative. Some articles where difficult for me to understand, however it was well explained. I loves the references to Star Wars, lotr and firefly. Also I learned some things just from reading this book (eg how chemotherapy works) All in all a big recommendation to all my friends with curiosity and/or an interest in modern science (...and a weird sense of humor probably)

5

"What if?" answers hypothetical questions with scientific knowledge, humor, and comic illustrations. If you've spent any time on the internet, you've likely seen the author's illustrations before, and the book delivers on everything you imagine coming from xkcd in a book. An unintended side effect of reading this in 2023 and 2024, almost 10 years after it was initially published, is that it's an absurd experience to see the quarantine question answered as a hypothetical unrelated to the reality we live in now (see the chapter "Common Cold"). Incredibly enjoyable, funny, and you even learn a few things along the way.

5

Sehr zu empfehlen! Sehr gut verständlich und extrem witzig. Auch wenn man noch nie großartig Kontakt zu Physik, Chemie und co. hatte, kann man allen Erklärungen super folgen. Top!

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