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What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions and the new 10th Anniversary Edition
<!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" name="viewport"> <link href="../books.css" rel="stylesheet" title="Default" type="text/css"> <title>What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions and the new 10th Anniversary Edition</title> </head> <body> <div id="whatif-header-wrapper"> <h1>what if?: the book(s)</h1> <header> <p id="tour"><a href="../events">Book Tour Announced!</a></p> <img src="whatif-10x-burst.png" id="burst"> <div id="whatif-10x-book-wrapper"> <img src="whatif-10x-cover.png"> <p><strong>A special 10th anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller <em><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/what-if-randall-munroe?variant=39934976622626">What If?</a></em> from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic <em><a href="xkcd.com">xkcd</a></em>鈥攔evised and annotated with brand-new illustrations and answers to important questions you never thought to ask.</strong></p> <p>Fans of <em><a href="xkcd.com">xkcd</a></em> ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?</p> <p>In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature <em><a href="xkcd.com">xkcd</a></em> comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)</p> <p>In celebration of 10 years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? x 10. The result is 10x the adventure of scientific inquiry. Featuring brand-new 2-color annotations and illustrations, this special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, <em><a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/what-if-tenth-anniversary-edition-randall-munroe?variant=41611311415330">What If?</a></em> explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent reader will enjoy and feel much smarter for having read.</p> </div> </header> <div class="main-wrapper"> <section id="pub-wrapper-10x"> <h3>out soon!</h3> <section class="editions"> <div class="ind-edition"> <h4>United States | Harper Collins</h4> <h5>On sale November 26, 2024!</h5> <p>available to order from:</p> <ul class="list-10x"> <li class="button-10x"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0063412640/keywords=games?tag=harpercollinsus-20">Amazon</a></li> <li class="button-10x"><a 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<header> <div id="whatif-book-wrapper"> <img src="whatif-cover.png"> <p><em><a href="http://blog.xkcd.com/2014/03/12/what-if-i-wrote-a-book/" title="What if I wrote a book">What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions</a></em> is a collection of many of the blog's most popular answers, along with brand new weird and wonderful questions. Available now in the US! Scroll down for international pub dates.</p> </div> </header> </div> <div class="main-wrapper"> <section id="pub-wrapper"> <h3>out now from publishers worldwide!</h3> <section class="editions"> <div class="ind-edition"> <h4>United States | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt</h4> <h5>September 2, 2014</h5> <p>available to order from: <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/what-if-serious-scientific-answers-to-absurd-hypothetical-questions-randall-munroe/1118864093?ean=9780544272996">Barnes & Noble</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-If-Scientific-Hypothetical-Questions/dp/0544272994/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1394474740&sr=1-1&keywords=what+if%3F%2C+munroe">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780544272996">Indie Bound</a>, <a href="http://www.booksamillion.com/p/What-If/Randall-Munroe/9780544272996" title="What if? Books-a-million purchase link">BAM! 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