Full name: 13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time

Author: Michael Brooks Year: 2008 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780385664233 9780307278814 0385664230 0307278816

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. Similar books: How to Fossilize Your Hamster by Mick O'Hare Inflight Science by Brian Clegg What Einstein Told His Barber by Robert L. Wolke The Canon by Natalie Angier Ignorance by Stuart Firestein Brief Answers to the Big Questions by Stephen Hawking How Things Are by John Brockman Isaac Asimov's Guide to Earth and Space by Isaac Asimov The Left Hand of the Electron by Isaac Asimov The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing by Richard Dawkins Science Friction by Michael Shermer How Science Works by Judith Hann What Is Science? by Rebecca Kai Dotlich Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis Beyond Reason by A. K. Dewdney QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman Physics of the Impossible by Michio Kaku Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip S. Thorne Quantum Field Theory for the Gifted Amateur by Tom Lancaster Nightwatch by Terence Dickinson