'The New world of Mr.Tompkins' was originally written by George Gamow and fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard.
Mr.Tompkins is a Bank Clerk who attends a Physics Lecture given by an old Professor, in order to pass time on a public holiday. He feels dizzy at the lecture as he cannot follow it and he dozes off. He gets transformed into a dream where the Constants in Physics take totally different values and effects which were invisible in world gets magnified in his dream world.
This book is no doubt one of the best in physics. Its written purely for a layman and he can follow majority of the tough Modern Physics concepts effortlessly. Moreover book is not a burden to read and it is more or less like an adventurous one.
One can appreciate the creativity of an author, in the stories he created to explain the physics' concepts. Many of them are really captivating and enjoyable with light touch of humour here and there. The chapters; City speed limit, Mr.Tompkins Visits a Closed universe, Quantum Snooker, The Quantum Safari, Maxwell's Demon, The Merry Tribe of Electrons, Inside the nucleus and Woodcarver are simply superb. One can observe the heights of creativity exhibited by Author in those chapters.
On a flip side, last two chapters are bit lengthy, confusing and difficult to understand in the first reading itself. Probably second reading may clear the concepts properly.
Overall, this is the book which everyone who loves and hates physics should read. The fellow who loves the physics will surely enjoy the beauty of physics and fellow who hates it starts loving it.
