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24 alternatives to What If?

Serious scientific answers to absurd hypothetical questions

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. What If? launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions▲78

   If you're curious then you'll like this easy read.

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Book of What If...?▲64

   Questions & activities for curious minds

   2016 · bookofwhatif.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Fake Science 101▲60

   A less-than-factual guide to our amazing world

   2015 · fakescience.org · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Dark Matter▲73

   What if you could have made different choices in life?

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   But What If We're Wrong?▲62

   Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past

   2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Black Swan▲80

   The impact of the highly improbable

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Physics of the Future▲73

   How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   And Then You're Dead▲69

   A gleeful look at the science behind impossible deaths

   2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Free Will▲59

   What is consciousness? Can science help us find an answer?

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Wait▲74

    The art and science of delay

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    What If? ▲4

    A playground for your mind

    May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Journal of Results from Experiment.com▲57

    A new type of science journal. Funded by you!

    2015 · experiment.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Seven Experiments That Could Change the World▲55

    Some scientific theories are perceived as common sense

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite▲72

    Turning logic and common sense on its head

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Deep Thoughts▲65

    Irreverent observations about life

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    If You Feel Too Much▲66

    Thoughts on things found and lost and hoped for

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    The Vital Question▲55

    Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life

    2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

18. 18
    The Beginning of Infinity▲64

    Exploration of the Nature and Progress of Knowledge

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Curious: The Desire to Know & Why Your Future Depends On It▲74

    What it is, how it helps us, and why it might be essential

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Decoded▲62

    The science behind why we buy

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

21. 21
    One Random Book▲90

    Why not let us choose your next read?

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! ▲8

    Exploits of this century's greatest scientific mind

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    The Living Brain▲63

    The deep mysteries of the human brain

    2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Ask▲63

    The counterintuitive online formula

    2016 · its alternatives →

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