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If there is? If not!
If there is? If not!
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An imagination-charging project written by Professor Jaeseung Jeong of KAIST and the university student club for science writing he founded, "Dreaming Science."

'What if it rained juice?' 'What if there was a camcorder that recorded dreams?' 'What if the mouth moved next to the belly button?' 'What if babies grew on trees?' There is no imagination that cannot be imagined in this book.
Once you have a theme in mind, you embark on an imaginary journey to a future world where that theme is played out on a daily basis.
Then, we will carefully explain to you, using scientific evidence, whether or not such a thing can actually happen.


At the end of each section, we provide a tip titled "From Imagination to Science" that provides additional, fascinating scientific information related to that section.
The occasional quirky cartoons are enough to stimulate the imagination of young people.
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Prologue: A Journey to a World You've Never Imagined_Jeong Jae-seung

Part 1: A delightful world of whimsical imagination

What if it rains juice from the sky? A sweet world where it rains juice/Can it really rain juice?/Architects shed tears because of juice rain/Bacteria and mold are swarming/No matter how much you drink, it's not enough/Earth's climate and ocean currents are also on red alert!/Thank you, because the rain is 'water'!

What if there was a camcorder that recorded dreams? Observing the brain activity that creates dreams / Dreams, my most secret diary / No more secrets in the world! / Dream Camcorder, exposing our unconscious.

What if a dog breathed fire? Firedogs, changing urban culture / Firedogs, ascending to the throne of the beasts / Our dog, the firedog-making project / Beware of firedogs, day and night. Let's see firedog trim again / Anti-firedog Association / The last dance with an ordinary pet dog

What if you could raise a kangaroo at home? A baby kangaroo comes to Korea/Shopping with a kangaroo!/A kangaroo living in the city: Is he happy?/My mistake about kangaroos


Part 2: Strange Imaginations and Bizarre People

What if humans had horns like deer? A day in the life of a horned middle school student, Goblin/Antlers, bone or skin?/Not all horns are created equal!/Why do we need horns?/Should I have horns or not?

What if my mouth moved to the side of my belly button? Oh, where did my mouth go? / What you see isn't everything / What about the stomach sounds I make with my mouth? / The pleasure of eating isn't what it used to be / When I think about it from the other side

What if the human tongue were twice as long? Geumsoon in Wonderland/Tongue-lengthening surgery?/Long tongue, a convenient world/A tongue that fits my body perfectly

What if human faces were engraved? A world with engraved faces/ Day 1 of the new human race/ Day 7 of the new human race/ Dumb noses and mouths/ Colorless faces/ One year after the new human race's birth

What if Fingers Disappeared? A Strange Concert, A World Without Fingers/Counting on Your Fingers/Fingers, Conceiving Civilization/Thinking Fingers/Mitts and Fingers


Part 3: A Strange Imagination and an Interesting World

What if farts had colors? Now, even farts are in the color era/Let's make colorful farts/Can we tell the state of our health from the color of our farts?/I hate colorful, dizzying air/Farts are copper.
But don't be ashamed!

What if babies grew on trees? Babies hanging from trees? / I raise my own child, in a pot! / Can we create an artificial womb to replace mothers? / The baby fruit tree sets women free! / The place I want to return to again

What if the size of π changed? How much would it be? How much would it be? / I'm happy because it's an irrational number / What if pi changed to 2? / Pi, a number I've never doubted

What if you hadn't discovered the equal sign? Oops, the equal sign has disappeared! / New mathematics on a new planet / Hosik, a boy from Mars, takes an interest in equal signs / Revisiting the equal sign, searching for the longed-for equal sign / The greatness of the equal sign


Part 4: Amazing Imagination, Fun Future

What if you could fly in a backpack rocket? Take a walk in the clouds with a backpack/Backpack rocket travelers are human bombs!/Has the backpack rocket already been built?

What if all the wires in the world disappeared? The vast web that envelops the Earth, wires/Earth, freedom from the wire mesh/Imagining a world without wires

What if there were two suns? The midday sun, and the stars in the night sky/A unique world created by two suns/Worship the sky, love it like the sun/The Land of the Chaotic Sun/The One and Only Sun and Its Successor

What if all the streetlights in the world disappeared? Streetlights illuminate Joseon. / What would the night be like without streetlights? / Light pollution devours the Earth. / World Dark Sky Association: "Let's get rid of streetlights!" / Drawing on a dark night.

Epilogue: Our Long-Awaited Dream Becomes Reality_Dreaming Science

Into the book
When the mouth is positioned inward on the face, eating becomes difficult.
With my lips buried in my face, I can't even take a bite of the greasy fried chicken leg.
When eating chicken, you should use your hands and tools to cut the chicken into bite-sized pieces and put them in your mouth.
Biting into a thick hamburger was a mistake.
No matter how wide I want to open my mouth, it won't open because of the contours of my face...
All beverages, whether coffee in a teacup or cola in an aluminum can, must be drunk through a straw.
The originally protruding, soft, elastic lips were a natural docking system connecting the cup and the mouth.
As long as the contours of the face obstruct the connection between the lips and the cup, an elegant tea time with a small teacup is nothing but an illusion that cannot be expected.

Besides these inconveniences, the engraved lips do not know the thrilling sweetness that the positive lips enjoyed.
Because sunken lips make it difficult to kiss your lover.
No matter how close we face each other, isn't it as difficult as picking stars from the sky to touch lips that are so deeply sunken? Ah, to lose a kiss, that's the saddest thing! (Ah, in times like these, if only my mouth had moved to my belly button!)
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GOODS SPECIFICS
- Date of issue: June 1, 2008
- Page count, weight, size: 288 pages | 538g | 153*214*20mm
- ISBN13: 9788971847756
- ISBN10: 8971847751

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