13 things that don't make sense : the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time by Brooks, Michael, 1970- instant download

13 things that don't make sense : the most intriguing scientific mysteries of our time by Brooks, Michael, 1970- instant download

240 pages ; 22 cm, Ninety-six per cent of the universe is missing. The effects of homeopathy don't go away under rigorous scientific conditions. The laws of nature aren't what they used to be. Thirty years on, no one has an explanation for a seemingly intelligent signal received from outer space. The US Department of Energy is re-examining cold fusion because the experimental evidence seems too solid to ignore. The placebo effect is put to work in medicine while doctors can't agree whether it even exists. In an age when science is supposed to be king, scientists are beset by experimental results they simply can't explain. But, if the past is anything to go by, these anomalies contain the seeds of future revolutions. While taking readers on an entertaining tour d'horizon of the strangest of scientific findings - involving everything from our lack of free will to Martian methane that offers new evidence of life on the planet - the author argues that the things we don't understand are the key to what we are about to discover. -- Publisher details, Includes bibliographical references and index, Machine generated contents note: 1.The Missing Universe -- 2.The Pioneer Anomaly -- 3.Varying Constants -- 4.Cold Fusion -- 5.Life -- 6.Viking -- 7.The Wow! Signal -- 8.A Giant Virus -- 9.Death -- 10.Sex -- 11.Free Will -- 12.The Placebo Effect -- 13.Homeopathy