What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

By: Randall Munroe

Narrated by: Wil Wheaton

A special tenth anniversary edition of the million-copy bestseller What If? from the creator of the wildly popular webcomic xkcd—revised and annotated with answers to important questions you never thought to ask.

Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at ninety percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? What if everyone only had one soulmate? What would happen if the moon went away?

In pursuit of answers, Munroe runs computer simulations, pores over stacks of declassified military research memos, solves differential equations, and consults with nuclear reactor operators. His responses are masterpieces of clarity and hilarity, complemented by his signature xkcd comics. (They often predict the complete annihilation of humankind, or at least a really big explosion.)

In celebration of ten years of unusual insight, Randall Munroe has revised his classic blockbuster to ask what if? times ten. The result is ten times the adventure of scientific inquiry. This special anniversary edition is far more than a book for geeks, What If? explains the laws of science in operation in a way that every intelligent listener will enjoy and feel much smarter for having listened to.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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Fun to listen to.

This is a fun book to listen too. I didnt listen to book 1 or 2 so I cant comment about them, but this book was good.

Good book

It was good but how is it a longer by an hour than the normal one I can’t find out how all the chapters are the same 🤷‍♂️

Best of...the title should have been

Read some reviews and disagreed. The 10th Anniversary is (while a repeat of some from the last 2 x books) is really a "best of"...

So read all of the previous versions, or just read this one. Regardless you will be smarter and have a load of info for your next TGIF event.

Thank you, is all I have to say...thank you!!

Loved it

The questions and answers were very fun and full of stuff I didn’t know. Especially the 10x parts,I never would have thought of that!

I like it I literally listen to it every night

I like the chapter 4 and chapter 23 absolute cinema like it's so good I need to put 15 e
words at least sooo