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An all-new volume of science questions to delight, entertain, and inform readers of all ages, from bestselling author Jay Ingram.

Bestselling author and commentator Jay Ingram is back to explain the magic and mysteries of the world around us.

Jay takes readers on a tour of the universe, exploring wonders big and small. From the farthest reaches of space to the most perplexing historical riddles to the marvels of who we are and what were made of, Jay answers the important questions, such as:

Whats inside a black hole?
Will machines ever learn to feel?
How much pee is in the average swimming pool?

Because who hasnt wondered whether were living in a computer simulation? Or whether Atlantis existed? Or why cats always land on their feet?

With wit, wisdom, and whimsical illustrations, The Science ofWhy 2 will delight readers of all ages with the answers to all these questions and more. Full of fun science facts (and fictions), this is the book that everyones inner science geek needs to read.

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The science of why: answers to questions about the universe, the unknown and ourselves / Jay Ingram.

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Contents
Part 1 The Great Beyond
Are we alone in the universe or are aliens out there?

Y OU CANT EVEN START TO answer this question unless you believe that lifeintelligent life at thatcould have begun on planets other than Earth. You dont have to believe that: its still quite possible that we are unique in the universethat no matter how many billions of galaxies exist, containing billions of stars that have untold billions of planets orbiting them, were the only ones. But the attitude that were the center of everything has been eroding since the 1500s and has reduced us from being the one and only to being one of eight planets orbiting a humdrum star in one of an incalculable number of galaxies.

Its challenging to figure out whether were alone in the universe when we dont yet have evidence of life anywhere else. But theres a way of approaching it, mostly thanks to astronomer Frank Drake, who, in 1961, invented something called the Drake equation.

The Drake Equation is a series of unknown quantities that give a sense of what - photo 3

The Drake Equation is a series of unknown quantities that give a sense of what we have to know before we can be confident that there are other intelligent civilizations out there. Its written like this:

Translated into English the equation says that N is the number of - photo 4

Translated into English, the equation says that N is the number of technologically advanced civilizations out there right now that we might be able to discover. Exciting stuff! N means extraterrestrials. N means aliens!

But N is dependent on everything to the right of the equals sign. As each term is taken into account, N shrinks. That means the chances of us finding another species in the universe, then, is based on:

Rx = the total number of stars fP = the fraction of those stars with planets ne = the number of planets that are the right distance from their star to allow the existence of life fl = those planets that actually do support life fi = those where intelligent life managed to evolve fc = the ones that acquired advanced communications technology and the last number, L = the number of technological civilizations that actually survive long enough for us to detect them.

When Drake came up with his equation, many of the numbers in it could only be guessed at. But since then weve managed to get a little more exact.

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Science Fiction ! We are most familiar with life-forms evolving on land or in water. But are there other possibilities? Two famous astronomers, Fred Hoyle and Carl Sagan, imagined weird and wild gaseous life-forms. In Hoyles late-1950s science fiction novel The Black Cloud, a giant cloud of dust and gas invades our solar system and blocks out the sun, threatening all life on earth. The cloud, more intelligent than us, lived off the energy of radiation from starswhat we call sunlight. Earth was saved when the cloud decided to move on. Carl Sagan, in a paper for NASA, put forth the idea of three kinds of giant balloon-like organisms existing in the atmosphere of Jupiter: floaters, sinkers and predators. Floaters would be kilometers in size and would survive by gathering sunlight or processing the chemicals in the atmosphere. Sinkers, like the oceans plankton, would slowly fall through the atmosphere but could absorb other things as they fell (such as floaters), the way raindrops grow as they fall. And hunters, of course, would target other organisms to absorb .

Planets orbit stars, so, to start, we need to know how many stars there are in the universe. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has at least 100 billion stars, and that could be roughly the same number in any galaxy. There are somewhere between 10 billion and 10 trillion galaxies, so if you multiply those numbers (using the larger estimate of galaxies), you get an incomprehensible 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. Lots of stars.

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