(Super)Natural Science

Starships! Death Rays! Superheroes! Mutants! Monsters! Multiverse! Astrophysicist (and science fiction fan) explores the scientific possibility of superhero superpowers, stories of time travel, death rays, teleportation, bigfoot, vampires, and much more!Have you ever wondered whether we might someday be transported from place to place with teleportation machines like those shown in Star Trek? Or pondered the existence of ghosts and the possibility of alien life visiting the Earth? Or debated whether being bitten by a radioactive spider might turn you into a superhero? From black holes to sentient robots to werewolves, astrophysicist Charles Liu investigates the real science of the supernatural, science fiction stories, mythology, folklore, fairy tales, and other wild, crazy, mysterious, spooky, fantastical, and sometimes real, sometimes not phenomena! Looking through a scientific lens, (Super)Natural Science: The Real Science of Superbeings, the Supernatural and Star Lore probes the truth of a wide array of subjects, including … Alien life; Artificial intelligence; and the Big Bang;Bigfoot; black holes; cybernetics; dark energy; and death rays;The end of time; event horizons; and extra dimensions; Faster-than-light travel; genetic modification; and ghosts; Gravitational waves; hypernovas; insect invasions; and Jurassic Park;Kaiju; King Kong; leptons; magic; and mutants; Nucleosynthesis; the Overwatch effect; Planck time; and quantum teleportation; Quarks; robots; strange matter; super-senses; super-serums; and super-strength;Telekinesis; telepathy; teleportation; and time travel;Universal sentience; vacuum energy; vampires; warp drive; and werewolves;WIMPs; X-ray vision; Yellowstone supervolcanoes; and zombies;And many other stories from science fiction, folklore, mythology, and the supernatural!Science and the supernatural aren’t mutually exclusive—and science is often stranger than fiction! (Super)Natural Science shows how science can be used to explain all sorts of strange, wondrous and unusual phenomena!