What If? by Randall Munroe is the ultimate bathroom book for MythBusters fans. This is a collection of unreasonable questions given rigorous scientific answers. For example: What happens if the earth stops spinning, but the atmosphere does not? As with most such investigations, mayhem ensues.
This book is full of interesting observations:
“They say there are no stupid questions. This is obviously wrong.”
Hurricanes: “It’s not that the wind is blowing, it’s what the wind is blowing.”
In the question about swimming in the spent fuel pool of an atomic reactor. The author questioned a scientist. The answer was, “In our reactor? You’d die pretty quickly, before reaching the water, from gunshot wounds.”
Some sample questions:
What would happen is the sun suddenly switched off?
What is the farthest one human being has been from every other living person?
If you like science, this book by the author of the webcomic XKCD is a fun read. Knowledge of advanced physics is not required. Highly recommended for nerds, geeks, and young scientists.
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