The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication...
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The mild-mannered bank clerk with the short attention span and vivid imagination has inspired, charmed and informed young and old alike since the publication of Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in 1965. He is now back in a new set of adventures exploring the extreme edges of the universe - the smallest, the largest, the fastest, the farthest. Through his experiences and his dreams, you are there at Mr Tompkins' shoulder watching and taking part in the merry dance of cosmic mysteries: Einstein's relativity and bizarre effects near light-speed, the birth and death of the universe, black holes, quarks, space warps and antimatter, the fuzzy world of the quantum; the demolition derby of atom smashers, and that ultimate cosmic mystery of all ... love. This new text is revised, updated and expanded by best-selling popular-science author Russell Stannard (who wrote the much acclaimed Uncle Albert series of books for children).
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City speed limit
The professor's lecture on relativity which caused Mr Tompkins's dream
Mr Tompkins takes a holiday
The notes of the professor's lecture on curved space
Mr Tompkins visits a closed universe
Cosmic opera
Black holes, heat death, and blow torch
Quantum snooker
The quantum safari
Maxwell's demon
The merry tribe of electrons
The remainder of the previous lecture through which Mr Tompkins dozed