What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical QuestionsHarperCollins, 2 de set. de 2014 - 352 páginas What If? has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher. |
Conteúdo
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Relativistic Baseball | 7 |
Spent Fuel Pool | 10 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 1 | 14 |
New YorkStyle Time Machine | 15 |
Soul Mates | 23 |
Laser Pointer | 27 |
Periodic Wall of the Elements | 35 |
SelfFertilization | 158 |
High Throw | 168 |
Lethal Neutrinos | 174 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 8 | 178 |
Speed Bump | 179 |
Lost Immortals | 183 |
Orbital Speed | 187 |
FedEx Bandwidth | 192 |
Everybody Jump | 43 |
A Mole of Moles | 47 |
Hair Dryer | 52 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 2 | 60 |
The Last Human Light | 61 |
MachineGun Jetpack | 68 |
Rising Steadily | 73 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 3 | 77 |
Orbital Submarine | 78 |
ShortAnswer Section | 83 |
Lightning | 89 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 4 | 95 |
Human Computer | 96 |
Little Planet | 102 |
Steak Drop | 107 |
Hockey Puck | 112 |
Common Cold | 114 |
Glass Half Empty | 119 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 5 | 125 |
Alien Astronomers | 126 |
No More DNA | 131 |
Interplanetary Cessna | 137 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 6 | 142 |
Yoda | 143 |
Flyover States | 146 |
Falling with Helium | 150 |
Everybody Out | 153 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 7 | 157 |
Free Fall | 195 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 9 | 199 |
Sparta | 200 |
Drain the Oceans | 204 |
Part II | 210 |
Twitter | 217 |
Lego Bridge | 222 |
Longest Sunset | 228 |
Random Sneeze Call | 233 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 10 | 236 |
Expanding Earth | 237 |
Weightless Arrow | 244 |
Sunless Earth | 248 |
Updating a Printed Wikipedia | 252 |
Facebook of the Dead | 255 |
Sunset on the British Empire | 259 |
Stirring Tea | 262 |
All the Lightning | 266 |
Loneliest Human | 270 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 11 | 273 |
Raindrop | 274 |
SAT Guessing | 278 |
Neutron Bullet | 280 |
Weird and Worrying Questions from the What If? Inbox 12 | 289 |
Richter 15 | 290 |
Back Matter | 297 |
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