如果这样,会怎样?科学妙答 第2部 （平装） 英文原版 What If 2 Randall Munroe

基本信息

Format Paperback | 368 pages

Dimensions 183 x 235 x 28mm | 822g

Publication date 13 Sep 2022

Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

ISBN10 0593542908

ISBN13 9780593542903

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

世界各地数以百万计的人在阅读和喜爱《如果这样,会怎样?》后仍然有问题，而且这些问题越来越奇怪。谢天谢地，xkcd的创作者Randall Munroe来帮忙了。打算骑着火杆从月球回到地球？困难的部分是坚持着陆。希望通过同时打开每个人的冰柜门来冷却大气？也许是时候简单介绍一下热力学了。想知道如果你骑着直升飞机的叶片，建造一栋十亿层的大楼，用熔岩做一盏熔岩灯，或者在间歇泉爆发时跳上去会发生什么吗？好吧，如果你坚持的话。

在你进行宇宙公路旅行、把纽约市的居民喂给霸王龙、或用香蕉填满每个教堂之前，一定要参考这本不切实际的想法的实用指南。门罗不为荒谬所动，他查阅了从秋千架物理学到客机弹射器设计等方面的研究，清楚而简洁地回答了读者的问题，并配以富有启发性、偶尔令人恐惧的插图。正如他一贯展示的那样，你可以从研究世界在非常具体的极端情况下如何运作中学到很多东西。

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of What If? and How To answers more of the weirdest questions you never thought to ask.

The millions of people around the world who read and loved What If? still have questions, and those questions are getting stranger. Thank goodness xkcd creator Randall Munroe is here to help. Planning to ride a fire pole from the Moon back to Earth? The hardest part is sticking the landing. Hoping to cool the atmosphere by opening everyone’s freezer door at the same time? Maybe it’s time for a brief introduction to thermodynamics. Want to know what would happen if you rode a helicopter blade, built a billion-story building, made a lava lamp out of lava, or jumped on a geyser as it erupted? Okay, if you insist.

Before you go on a cosmic road trip, feed the residents of New York City to a T. rex, or fill every church with bananas, be sure to consult this practical guide for impractical ideas. Unfazed by absurdity, Munroe consults the latest research on everything from swing-set physics to airliner catapult–design to answer his readers’ questions, clearly and concisely, with illuminating and occasionally terrifying illustrations. As he consistently demonstrates, you can learn a lot from examining how the world might work in very specific extreme circumstances.

作者简介

兰德尔-门罗是《纽约时报》头号畅销书《如何》、《如果这样,会怎样?》和《事物解释》的作者；科学问答博客《如果这样,会怎样?》的作者；以及流行的网络漫画xkcd的作者。他曾是美国宇航局的机器人专家，2006年离开该机构，全职在互联网上画漫画。他住在马萨诸塞州。

Randall Munroe is the author of the number one New York Times bestsellers How To, What If?, and Thing Explainer; the science question-and-answer blog What If?; and the popular web comic xkcd. A former NASA roboticist, he left the agency in 2006 to draw comics on the internet full time. He lives in Massachusetts.