24.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
New extended edition - now with 40 new stories, including Alicia Keys' phone number, Michael J Fox's cure for Parkinson's disease and the meaning of life according to Douglas Adams!Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden in Staffordshire. It lands 140 miles away in Wiltshire, in the g
New extended edition - now with 40 new stories, including Alicia Keys' phone number, Michael J Fox's cure for Parkinson's disease and the meaning of life according to Douglas Adams!Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden in Staffordshire. It lands 140 miles away in Wiltshire, in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence? Two sisters in Alabama decide, independently, to visit the other. En route, their identical jeeps collide and both are killed. Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? Or magic? Or are we, as some scientists have suggested, being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe whose ubiquitous web-like workings we can only dimly discern? Sceptics see only the laws of probability at work. But what are the odds against mathematician Ian Stewart being struck by a meteorite moments after discussing the odds of such a thing happening? Beyond Coincidence is a celebration of the Universeâs most beguiling phenomenon. From sympathetic magic to the science of probability, from the vicissitudes of gamblers to the mysterious communions of sub-atomic particles, this book chases coincidence in all its many guises, analysing how it affects every aspect of our lives and why it means so much to even the most sceptical of us.
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