What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Fans of the xkcd comic ask Munroe a lot of strange questions: What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If…
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