What If? von Randall Munroe

What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
ISBN/EAN: 9781848549562
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 304 S.
Einband: Paperback
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www.xkcd.com beschäftigt sich auf humorvolle Weise mit wissenschaftlichen Mysterien. Eine Unterrubrik ist "What if"; hier werden unmögliche Fragen wissenschaftlich korrekt beantwortet, z.B. Was passiert, wenn der Mond plötzlich verschwindet. Die besten Fragen - und Antworten - gibt es jetzt in Buchform. "What if" explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel the smarter for having read. Think "Peanuts" meets science.
Randall Munroe is the creator of the webcomic xkcd and bestselling author of What If?, Thing Explainer and xkcd: Volume 0. Randall was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, and grew up outside Richmond, Virginia. After studying physics at Christopher Newport University, he got a job building robots at NASA Langley Research Center. In 2006 he left NASA to draw comics on the internet full time, and has since been nominated for a Hugo Award three times. The International Astronomical Union recently named an asteroid after him: asteroid 4942 Munroe is big enough to cause mass extinction if it ever hits a planet like Earth.