Book for this month

Fusion and Plasmas Dynamics Laboratory

  • [Aug. 2022] What If? Serious Scientific Answers to
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For this month's reading, Pocholo would like to go with (science-based) comedy-ish book by Randall Munroe titled "What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions" The book discusses seemingly basic but absurd hypothetical questions (e.g. what happens if a baseball is thrown at ~0.9c) and attempts to put a comedic spin around the discussion. The book actually began as 'what if?' questions on Randall's website 'xkcd' (https://what-if.xkcd.com/1/) so you can start reading there to see if it's your type. There are questions on the book that are not on the website.

The book is available in both English and Korean, and thankfully KAIST library has copies of both:

https://library.kaist.ac.kr/search/ctlgSearch/posesn/view.do?bibctrlno=592486&se=b0&ty=B&_csrf=ae6b664e-833a-40fc-b94a-79eb89864e21
https://library.kaist.ac.kr/search/ctlgSearch/posesn/view.do?bibctrlno=610331&se=b0&ty=B

The reason why he recommends this book is because, as they say, 'laughter is the best medicine', in addition, this is his type of humour (absurd/extreme things).
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