Mr. Tompkins

Mr. Tompkins is the hero of a popular book series of the atomic physicist and astronomer George Gamow, in which he brought close to a wide audience physical and cosmological phenomena. In the first book portrays a Gamov ( dream ) world in which the value of the speed of light is c only 30 miles per hour. At a cyclist he describes the effects of length contraction and other relativistic effects.

The series began in 1938 with a serial story in the English magazine " Discovery " and was first published in 1940 in book form, and more episodes from 1945

In these books Tompkins " CGH Tompkins " means, so that the desired unification of Physics ( CGH physics ) is indicated.

Translations into German:

Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland or reveries of c, g, and h, Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1954
Mr. Tompkins ' strange journey through the cosmos and microcosm, Vieweg, 1980, ISBN 3-528-08419-7