{"product_id":"13-things-that-dont-make-sense-the-most-baffling-scientific-mysteries-of-our-time-9780385520683","title":"13 Things That Don't Make Sense: The Most Baffling Scientific Mysteries of Our Time","description":"\u003cp\u003eScience starts to get interesting when things dont make sense.  Sciences best-kept secret is this: Even today  there are experimental results and reliable data that the most brilliant scientists can neither explain nor dismiss. In the past  similar anomalies have revolutionized our world  like in the sixteenth century  when a set of celestial anomalies led Copernicus to realize that the Earth goes around the sun and not the reverse  and in the 1770s  when two chemists discovered oxygen because of experimental results that defied all the theories of the day. And so  if history is any precedent  we should look to todays inexplicable results to forecast the future of science. In 13 Things That Dont Make Sense  Michael Brooks heads to the scientific frontier to meet thirteen modern-day anomalies and discover tomorrows breakthroughs.  13 Things opens at the twenty-third Solvay physics conference  where the scientists present are ready to throw up their hands over an anomaly: is it possible that the universe  rather than slowly drifting apart as the physics of the big bang had once predicted  is actually expanding at an ever-faster speed? From Solvay and the mysteries of the universe  Brooks travels to a basement in Turin to subject himself to repeated shocks in a test of the placebo response. No study has ever been able to definitively show how the placebo effect works  so why has it become a pillar of medical science? Moreover  is 96 percent of the universe missing? Is a 1977 signal from outer space a transmission from an alien civilization? Might giant viruses explain how life began? Why are some NASA satellites speeding up as they get farther from the sunand what does that mean for the laws of physics?  Spanning disciplines from biology to cosmology  chemistry to psychology to physics  Brooks thrillingly captures the excitement  messiness  and controversy of the battle over where science is headed. In science  he writes  being stuck can be a sign that you are about to make a great leap forward. The things that dont make sense are  in some ways  the only things that matter.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45657829539893,"sku":"ByrdShop_0385520689","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780385520683.jpg?v=1782054957","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/13-things-that-dont-make-sense-the-most-baffling-scientific-mysteries-of-our-time-9780385520683","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}