Rhett Allain

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Rhett Allain is an American associate professor of physics at Southeastern Louisiana University and the author of the Wired magazine science blog Dot Physics. He received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 2001 and works in the field of physics education research.

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What If?

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

by Randall Munroe (Sep 02, 2014)

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Randall Munroe left NASA in 2005 to start up his hugely popular site XKCD 'a web comic of romance, sarcasm, math and language' which offers a witty take on the world of science and geeks. It now has 600,000 to a million page hits daily. Every now and then, Munroe would get emails asking him to arbitrate a science debate. 'My friend and I were argui...

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Sep 25, 2019

Also, this was covered in the @xkcdComic book What If (great book). – source

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