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) in 1965. In this 1999 book, he returns in a new set of adventures exploring the extreme edges of the universe - the smallest, the lar...
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) in 1965. In this 1999 book, he returns 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, 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 cosmic mystery of all ...love. This 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).
2 有用 アキラキラ 2016-06-24 10:30:50
就物理内容来说还是不错的,故事情节就蛮蹩脚的,还如不干干脆脆讲物理
0 有用 忘川 2014-11-16 18:28:57
看了一半,挺有意思,也许以后可以尝试一下科幻书籍。
0 有用 扶摇散人 2012-05-04 11:57:46
算是我正儿八经读完的第一本非教材类原著吧。非常棒的一本科普书,涉及相对论、量子力学、统计力学、原子物理、粒子物理、宇宙学,我现在读来还是学到了挺多东西的。而且久仰大名,现在才有机会读。(另,原来听报告打瞌睡是国际惯例呀~~那我就不自卑了。。。)
0 有用 红豆b 2018-03-10 03:27:06
看的是重新修订版 并不算很幽默的作者(可能是因为年代久远吧)但是还是蛮有趣的 讲的也很清楚 看完一遍觉得应该再看一遍复习知识点 科学出版社的原文评点版不知道意义在哪 非常没有用的注解 还打错很多词 白眼
0 有用 Bodensee 2020-11-03 05:43:23
True physicist thinks with experiments. I still need to improve on that.