13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The most intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Times
Authors:
Michael Brooks
Retail Price (Softback): £8.99
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ISBN: 9781861976475
First Published: 2010
Description:
Science starts to get interesting when things don't make sense.
Even today there are experimental results that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past, similar anomalies have revolutionised our world: in the sixteenth century, a set of celestial irregularities led Copernicus to realise that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse. In 13 Things That Don't Make Sense Michael Brooks meets thirteen modern-day anomalies that may become tomorrow's breakthroughs.
Is ninety six percent of the universe missing? If no study has ever been able to definitively show that the placebo effect works, why has it become a pillar of medical science? Was the 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Spanning fields from chemistry to cosmology, psychology to physics, Michael Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement and controversy of the scientific unknown
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But if you are looking for the sorts of controversies that would exercise the popular press, then look no further than the chapter on the possibility or otherwise of extraterrestrial life. A book to savour - and indeed even for holiday reading.