What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe ebook
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Format: pdf
ISBN: 9780544272996
Page: 320
Feb 18, 2014 - A strangelet is a hypothetical macroscopically large nucleus that doesn't contain just up-quarks and down-quarks as the usual nuclei do (it's the two quarks in the protons and neutrons); about 1/3 of its mass is composed of the strange-quarks. Oct 25, 2013 - It's 2023, and data scientists develop a DNA test that perfectly predicts each person's future disease and thus each person's exact lifetime medical expenses. If a Jew, a Muslim, a Christian, and a Hindu stood around the results, no one would dispute the finding. Mar 14, 2014 - preorder What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions ($14-$17) | Amazon | The most anticipated book of the year. Let's pretend the Bible claims life on earth is carbon-based. Apr 15, 2014 - You should have to prove that you, personally, are capable of making a serious contribution to your field. Another question the Icelandic research poses is, given such dramatic extinctions in a population over 300 years, does this necessarily lead to extinctions of DNA lineage families? Nov 8, 2010 - It is absurd to suggest that scientists would need DNA from 2600 years ago in order to provide a calibration point for DNA research. Danny Faulkner, who, for a change, actually has some scientific credentials: a B.S. -- No, because this hypothetical is absurd, as no DNA test will ever serve as an even remotely good proxy of a patients lifetime medical expenses. Question 2: Would any of your answers change if the test was imperfect and only predicted some of your medical expenses? Mar 29, 2013 - The authors set out to explore the possible meanings of the above mentioned ultimate question of life, the universe and everything (henceforth, UQLU&E), together with some of the answers that philosophers and scientists have b) there is no evidential or conceptual reason on earth why anyone should take the existence of gods seriously; and c) we do have a number of very good, if always incomplete and revisable, scientific accounts of the causes of the universe. Mar 13, 2014 - Randal Munroe is publishing a book of answers from his What If? Despite this failure, scientists remain optimistic that, if not Kennewick Man, then some others of the earliest skulls will contain analyzable DNA. And PhD (Astronomy, Indiana University), had this to say Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey, if the first segment is any indication, will attempt to package unconditional blind faith in evolution as scientific literacy in an effort to create interest in science. So I think they should be encouraged and people should think hard about giving good, broadly applicable answers. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will be published September 2nd by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Dogmatic answers Here's a hypothetical example. Mar 12, 2014 - What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions will be published September 2nd by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jan 5, 2014 - Religion's answers to scientific questions failed to satisfy; and the inherent flaw is the nature of dogmatism itself. Later on, scientific analysis demonstrates this fact. Mar 13, 2014 - Answers in Genesis is a huge backer of what is called “young Earth creationism” and their pet astronomer, Dr.