This Book Will Blow Your Mind by New-Scientist -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Books by New Scientist include Title Page Copyright Contents Introduction 1. Seventeen Impossible Things Before Breakfast

The riddle of the nocturnal sun Lightning shouldn’t be possible The metals made with forbidden chemistry Four impossible things the laws of physics might allow The clinic offering young blood to cure ageing The man who wants to transplant human heads Weird earthquake warning lights The computer that goes beyond logic The real monsters of the deep Five mythical animals that turned out to be real

2. You Are Not Who You Think You Are

You get mutant powers from outsider genes Your body is a nation of trillions There is a physics genius inside your brain You are frighteningly easy to manipulate You are a fantasist Evolution made you a scaredy-cat Mindfulness can defeat your inner bigot We’re all reading each other’s minds all the time You are the greatest runner on Earth Think you’re an atheist? Heaven forfend! You might be a hologram You might be older – or younger – than your years How the story of human origins is being rewritten

3. Life at the Extremes

4. The Threadbare Fabric of Reality

Why does the universe even exist? The quantum battle for the basis of reality The particle that blew up the universe The geometry that could reveal the true nature of space–time From i to u: searching for the quantum master bit Reconstructing physics: the universe is information Does consciousness create reality?

5. It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Universe

6. At the Limits of Imagination

The biggest number imaginable The most extreme places in the universe The atoms at infinity degrees Celsius – and beyond The giants dancing the slowest ballet on Earth The weirdest stuff in the world

7. A Practical Guide to Blowing Your Mind

Acknowledgements About the Contributors Further Reading