What if...?

A book where humor and science come together to explain all kinds of curious questions.

Hey! Thanks for noticing my book. If you're thinking of buying it, there are two things you wouldn't necessarily know but that I want to tell you in case you don't like it in the end and decide to put it to another use:

- Humans can't digest cellulose paper, but if we could, if you decided to eat this book, you would gain 2,300 calories - including the cover, of course!

- If you have a good arm, you could throw this book more than 13 meters. With practice, it's possible to throw a book every 800 milliseconds, which means that if an aggressor were chasing you, you could have three or four opportunities to hit them before they reached you. If, however, the attack were from a coyote running at its maximum speed, you would only have one chance. Aim well!

What If...? is a science popularization book that compiles some of the best posts as well as new ones based on questions from Randall Munroe's blog, where he answers readers using his scientific and mathematical knowledge. Munroe was a physicist at NASA before creating the website www.xkcd, which has received over a million visits. This is an original, intelligent, and very humorous book.

* #1 on The New York Times bestseller list for months.

* Best book of 2014 according to People magazine.

* Among the top 10 non-fiction books according to Time magazine.

Reviews:
«Munroe thinks analyzing a joke is like dissecting a frog; it can be done, but the frog ends up dying.»
The New York Times

«It tries to analyze the kind of wonders and hypothetical fantasies that might arise in a bar conversation.»
The Atlantic

«This book is a good combination of fun and a master class in such reasoning. As with all good lessons, you only realize you've learned something once it's over.»
The Economist

«Munroe has become something of a cult hero.»
The New York Times

On blogs...
«A unique science popularization book. It cleverly blends humor and science, developing outlandish hypotheses through coherent reasoning; all a result of the absurd and curiosity.»
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