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Summary Of What If By Randall Munroe
The book What If?, written by Randall Munroe, is exactly what it says on the cover, “Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions”. The purpose of the book is to explain in detail answers to crazy questions that aren’t necessary possible on Earth. The book is set up where it provides a questions and then the next few pages are dedicated to explaining the answer. There are also pages every once in awhile with weird and worrying questions that he doesn’t answer but provides a funny cartoon with it. Randall Munroe provides tons of research to back up all the questions answered in his book while also making it entertaining. The author describes this as, “Dear Abby for mad scientists”, where the questions are submitted through a

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