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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13 Things That Don't Make Sense
The Most Intriguing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PROLOGUE
- 1 THE MISSING UNIVERSE: We can only account for 4 percent of the cosmos
- 2 THE PIONEER ANOMALY: Two spacecraft are flouting the laws of physics
- 3 VARYING CONSTANTS: Destabilizing our view of the universe
- 4 COLD FUSION: Nuclear energy without the drama
- 5 LIFE: Are you more than just a bag of chemicals?
- 6 VIKING: NASA scientists found evidence for life on Mars. Then they changed their minds.
- 7 THE WOW! SIGNAL: Has ET already been in touch?
- 8 A GIANT VIRUS: a freak that could rewrite the story of life
- 9 DEATH: Evolution’s problem with self-destruction
- 10 SEX: There are better ways to reproduce
- 11 FREE WILL: Your decisions are not your own
- 12 THE PLACEBO EFFECT: Who’s being deceived?
- 13 HOMEOPATHY: It’s patently absurd, so why it go away?
- EPILOGUE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES AND SOURCES
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