Beyond Coincidence

Brian King author Martin Plimmer author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Icon Books

Published:9th May '19

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Stories of amazing coincidences and the mystery and mathematics that lie behind them

UPDATED EDITION WITH OVER FIFTY NEW STORIES







'A FIRST-RATE BOOK' - THE OBSERVER






Laura Buxton, aged ten, releases a balloon from her garden. It lands 140 miles away in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged ten. Coincidence? Or something beyond coincidence?




Is someone playing snap with our lives? Could it be the hand of God? 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?




Beyond Coincidence is a celebration of the universe's most beguiling phenomenon, containing more than 250 amazing stories of coincidence. From sympathetic magic to the science of probability, from the vicissitudes of gamblers to the mysterious communions of subatomic 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.

A first-rate book -- The Observer
Guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine -- Good Book Guide
Extraordinary stories -- Daily Mail

ISBN: 9781785785016

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 18mm

Weight: 236g

320 pages