How Long Will It Take?: 50 One-minute adventures along a dimension of time to a new world of brain game

ISBN-13: 9780998149301 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 116 str.

Monny Sklov Ph. D.; Tyler Frances Sklov

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Imagine a perfectly smooth sphere the size of the Earth with a ribbon tied snugly around its "equator." If you cut the ribbon and add another 12 inches of ribbon, then shake the newly elongated ribbon to distribute it evenly around the sphere, it clearly would be off the sphere's surface; but how far off the surface? If you slid a stack of as many free pizza coupons as you could between the ribbon and the sphere's surface (say, 100 coupons to the inch), after redeeming the free pizza coupons, how long will it take you to eat all the pizza?
Choose your answer from these units of time - Nanoseconds, Seconds, Minutes, Hours, Days, Weeks, Months, Years, Decades, Centuries, Millennia, Eons, Eras and Forever
It seems to most people that you could barely fit one coupon under the ribbon. But, if you answered any unit of time other than "Months," you can click on the book cover to read the simple explanation. That's right. The ribbon is nearly 2 inches off the sphere's surface, around the entire Earth-size sphere And you can eat pizza for months.
Join us and enter an intriguing realm of multiple physical dimensions expressed in terms of the passage of time. Find 50 incredible adventures that will stimulate and enlighten the mind of any aged follower of the curious and counterintuitive. Visit other galaxies, explore the infinitely small and large; probe the enormity of the universe before and after the Big Bang; and grasp the immensity of large numbers, volumes, weights, depths, heights and more. Comprehend speeds of light, sound, sloths, bubbles rising, objects falling, cars, joggers, etc. Just how small is an atom, anyway? And how long does it take to become a zombie?
These are mind-blowers - not brain teasers.
Come on over. Read a few...