We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe | Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson

We Have No Idea: A Guide to the Unknown Universe by Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson

Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe! In We Have No Idea, PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson team up to explore the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they make a compelling case that the questions we can’t answer are as interesting as the ones we can.

The Biggest Mysteries in Physics

It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson give us the best answers currently available for questions that are still perplexing scientists, including:

• Why does the universe have a speed limit?
• Why aren't we all made of antimatter?
• What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles?
• What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us?

They invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.

About the Author(s)

Jorge Cham is an engineer-turned cartoonist, writer and producer, who writes the web comic strip Piled Higher and Deeper. Cham was born in Panama and lives in the United States, where he started drawing PhD Comics as a graduate student at Stanford University.

Daniel Whiteson is an American experimental particle physicist and professor of Physics and Astronomy at University of California, Irvine. He earned a bachelor's degree in physics and computer science from Rice University in 1997 and graduated with a PhD in physics from University of California, Berkeley in 2003.