Mr. Thompkins 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 MR. TOMPKINS IN PAPERBACK was first published in 1965. Now, this highly affable character returns to embark on a set of adventures that explore the extreme edges of the universe--the smallest, the largest, the fastest, the farthest.Just by following the experiences and dreams of Mr. Tompkins, readers discover and come to know the merry dance of cosmic mysteries, including: Eingstein's theory of relativity, bizarre effects near light-speed, the birth and death of the universe, black holes, quarks, space warps and antimatter, the fuzzyworld of the quantum, and that ultimage cosmic mystery--love.The story of Mr. Tompkins' journey to the frontiers of modern physics will delight and inform young readers.
