The New World of Mr. Tompkins

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by George Gamow,

Edited by Russell Stannard

Cambridge University Press

Due/Published September 1999, 270 pages, cloth

ISBN 0521630096

Mr. Tompkins is back! . . . 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 the hugely successful Mr Tompkins in Paperback (by George Gamow) in1965. Now, he returns to embark on a set of adventures that explore the extreme edges of the universe--the smallest, the largest, the fastest, and the farthest.Just by following the experiences and dreams of Mr. Tompkins, readers discover andcome to know the dance of cosmic mysteries, including: Einstein's theory of relativity, 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, and that ultimate cosmicmystery--love. This really is a lot of fun folks!

Fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard