The Unofficial Companion What If

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English | ISBN: 1503234924 | 2014 | 148 pages | AZW3 | 191 KB
This Unofficial Companion to Randall Munroe’s book is not the actual Randall Munroe’s book, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Do not purchase this book if you are looking for a full copy of Munroe’s book.

The Unofficial Companion includes an unofficial summary and critique of questions and scientific answers discussed in Munroe’s book. It also includes additional questions and their scientific answers, helping readers with limited scientific background get a better grasp of some basics of science behind popular science books. (This book is not intended for readers with physics or engineering scientific background.)
There are many real physical phenomena that have a certain degree of "wow factor" to them, and one does not have to destroy the Earth with a hair dryer, though, to make science interesting. This book discusses questions that were not addressed at all or were addressed only partially in Munroe’s book:
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