10 Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet): A Guide to Science's Greatest Mysteries

by M. Hanlon

Overview

Considering questions such as 'Where did language come from?' and 'Do animals know they exist?', Michael Hanlon explores possible theories and dispatches a few of the less likely ones in his quest to fill the gaping holes that science is littered with.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230622845
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Series:	Macmillan Science
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	200
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Michael Hanlon is Science Editor at The Daily Mail. He is the author of Eternity: Our Next Billion Years and The Science of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Table of Contents

Introduction Is Fido a zombie? Why is time so weird? Can I live forever please? What are we going to do with the stupid? What is the dark side? Is the universe alive? Are you the same person you were a minute ago? Why are we all so fat... and does it really matter? Can we really be sure the paranormal is bunkum? What is reality, really?

Editorial Reviews

'A lovely book...you hear some pretty class stories' - Anita Anand, BBC Radio Five Live

'I thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with an enquiring mind, or the desire to scrape the surface of popular wisdom to see what lies beneath. An entertaining and enlightening read, we can only wait for 10 More Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet).' - Alexis (Al) Lambourne, Materials Today

'...for anyone interested in the greatest mysteries about our lives, universe(s) and selves, this is the most engaging, yet manageable book of the decade. A must buy.' Business and Finance Ireland

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