Wenn xkcd.com einen neuen Science Cartoon postet, vibriert das Internet. Sein Blog What if, auf dem der Physiker Randall Munroe jede Woche scheinbar unsinnige Fragen mit exakter Wissenschaft und genialen Strichmännchen beantwortet, ist Kult. Wie lange würde es dauern, bis wir merken würden, dass sich der Erdumfang verändert? Was wäre, wenn der gesamte Niederschlag in einem – quasi omnidirektionalen - Überschall-Regentropfen fiele? Endlich auch als Buch und endlich auf Deutsch!
perfect paperback, 364 pages
Deutsch language
Published Sept. 7, 2014 by Albrecht Knaus Verlag.
What If? employs Munroe's signature humour and rigor, famous in his XKCD comics, and delivers them in prose. It's a fun, quick read that I've enjoyed revisiting.
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Stort sett ei morosam bok, og veldig lettlesen.
Parts of this book went over my head, but I still enjoyed it alot. It is a love letter to science and curiousity, answering questions I never knew I had.
My one problem with this book is the "weird and worrying questions"-sections, as it at times points fun at the questions, and other times just serve as unanswered interesting questions. Where is the fun in that?
I ended up getting the UK version of this, which had a fun preface explaining its use of units. I still would have preferred the metric system.
