What If? Was Wäre Wenn?

perfect paperback, 364 pages

Deutsch language

Published Sept. 7, 2014 by Albrecht Knaus Verlag.

ISBN:
978-3-8135-0652-5
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4 stars (156 reviews)

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!

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Review of 'What If?' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

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.

Review of 'What if?' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

A collection of Randall Munroe's answers to "what if" questions submitted to his website. Munroe is the cartoonist who makes the xkcd cartoon and a former NASA roboticist. Included are the answers to "What would be the outcome of a magnitude 15 earthquake?" and "If you suddenly began rising at 1 foot per second, how exactly would you die?". The author's works have a pleasant nerd-like/adolescent/whimsical quality, plus you can learn some physics, and the meaning of the word apricity. The hardbound book from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is unusually well-designed and printed.

Review of 'What if?' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Entertaining book with an interesting premise (from the cover): serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions.

Munroe's writing style appeals to me, and it comes across well in this book. Good light reading, aside from the occasional mathematical equation which made my eyes glaze over. Fortunately, those equations simply support what he's saying, and it's not necessary to understand them to understand what he's saying.

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