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What If?

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What’s it about?

A former NASA roboticist applies real physics to absurd hypotheticals, revealing the hidden catastrophes and wonders behind questions like hitting a baseball at 90% the speed of light.

You’ll learn

  • Relativistic baseballs are nuclear bombs
  • Earth's sudden stop would be apocalyptic
  • Scale matters: intuition often fails
  • Science can answer even silly questions