Frequently asked questions about the universe / Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson.
"You've got questions: about space, time, gravity, and your odds of meeting your older self inside a wormhole. All the answers you need are right here. As a species, we may not agree on much, but one thing brings us all together: a need to know. We all wonder, and deep down we all have the...
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New York :
Riverhead Books,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- A frequently asked introduction
- What can't I travel back in time?
- Why haven't aliens visited us? Or have they?
- Is there another you?
- How long will humanity survive?
- What happens if I get sucked into a black hole?
- Why can't we teleport?
- Is there another Earth out there?
- What's stopping us from traveling to the stars?
- Is an asteroid going to hit Earth and kill us all?
- Are humans predictable?
- Where did the universe come from?
- Will time ever stop?
- Is an afterlife possible?
- Do we live in a computer simulation?
- Why does E = mc²?
- Where is the center of the universe?
- Can we turn Mars into Earth?
- Can we build a warp drive?
- When will the sun burn out?
- Why do we ask questions?