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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions Randall Munroe
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

May 18, 2014 - His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have an enormous, dedicated following, as do his deeply researched answers to his fans' strangest questions. Mar 13, 2014 - Randal Munroe is publishing a book of answers from his What If? Feb 12, 2014 - Tegmark's book is fascinating, and if you're interested in learning why this dazzling theorist thinks it likely we are the only intelligent life not just in our galaxy but in our universe, I commend it to you (although Fermi issues .. I was more giving a hypothetical example. Posted by RainyJay at 1:38 PM on or made up "what if" science questions. This book addresses a field that has been “dominated by astronomers, physicists, engineers, and computer scientists” and raises challenging questions about the ease of establishing meaningful communication with an extraterrestrial intelligence. If 49% only believed in one conspiracy, that only means that 51% answered either (a) Do Not Believe, or (b) I Don't Know, to all the questions. Oct 28, 2008 - This constraint, although important, is not a practical barrier to resolution, because science that works is easy to distinguish from science that doesn't. Aug 30, 2012 - Does science, in your opinion, presuppose the truth of certain synthetic a priori principles (as Kant would have called them), which are not merely logical or mathematical truths, but which can nevertheless be known through the study of philosophy, independently of science? The question has a number of important implications. However, in my experience, such reasoning is usually invalid (as often happens in arguments that purport to prove God), or is an hypothetical exploration of ideas (as in multiverse theorizing). Mar 19, 2014 - And Popular Mechanics had most of the specifications of the Stealth Bomber (and fighter) long before it was publicly revealed……seriously, if you even had one iota of intelligence, you'd realize how absurd the notion of the kinds of cover-ups you claim….. What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (this title was too long to fit in the subject line) has been announced by our very own Randall Munroe. Creating arbitrary constraints What aspect of the question is hypothetical has a lot to do with whether that (explicit or implicit) hypotheticalness is a serious problem with the question. Attachment: 9780544272996_p0_v1_s260x420.jpg. This would seem to fall under " - Questions with no problem to be solved or where the problem is some variant of "I'm curious if other people feel like I do"" to my untrained eye. Nov 12, 2013 - I was signed up to go to that event just because I wanted to see if there were any cool Austrians in the immediate SoCal area, and I bailed at the last minute because I decided driving 3 hours and back to Malibu to go to a Koch-funded event likely filled with a bunch of clueless “minarchists” would be a And I guess it's especially hard to avoid this temptation when the scientific niche that's most important or familiar to you is physics, because in a material sense it DOES.