Reddit reviews What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

There's a lot of great stuff about what would happen if you assembled a periodic table out of real elements, but I recommend a passage from Randall Munroe's 'What If'-- "Periodic Wall", or something like that.

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You might enjoy reading "What if" by Randall Monroe of XKCD
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Randall Munroe covers this in What if?. One of the big factors this wouldn't work is that a lot of people have compromised immune systems that can't just kill off any contagious diseases they are carrying.

What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Monroe.

This is the author of the popular webcomic XKCD. As the name suggests, incredibly well researched and well thought out answers to ridiculous questions like: What if the earth suddenly stopped spinning? or What would happen if someone pitched a light speed fastball? A really fun read, and you dont have to read it all in one shot.

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What I did was I started looking at short story collections. A short story lets you see how an author writes without needing to read an entire book of theirs. I have two favorite short story collection "series".

Dark Beyond the Stars, which is a Sci-fi, space opera collection. There are other Beyond the Stars books as well if you liked the first.

And Samuel Peralta's The Future Chronicles. The Future chronicles typically does some sort of sci-fi, but there are others as well. The great part about The Future Chronicles, is that you get to pick your flavor. In the mood for alternate history? Pick Alt. History 101, in the mood for spaceships and star ships? Pick The Galaxy Chronicles. In the mood for time travel? Pick the Time Travel Chronicles, ect.

Also, The Martian is a fantastic book. As well as xkcd's What if? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions.

i'm not sure if you wanted a book but this is always a fun and interesting read! and if you're not feeling bookish i also recommend his webcomic!

In other news, you can read Randall's "What If" for ~free if you have a subscription to Kindle Unlimited.

I personally don't have a copy, so if someone could explain how closely this models the system, I'd love you to pieces.

The creator of xkcd wrote a whole book on "what if" questions: What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Someone should get the *president a copy. Oh, yeah... I forgot he can't read... There are illustrations in it.

Don't be a prick. Support the author rather than posting plagerised snips from his book.