Saturday, August 01, 2020

Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom

This time, it is for Mr Tompkins to explore the curious world of atoms. The peculiarity of the quantum world had been revealed to the naive amateur student of physics in the earlier volume and the adventure to the uncertain world continues, thanks to his physicist father-in-law's lectures. The lectures seems to give the audience nightmares, which is very much apparent as not only does Mr Tompkins fall a prey for it, but so does his wife who had accompanied him to one of them! But sometimes, the father-in-law takes pity on our protagonist and asks him not to attend some of the difficult ones but the physics lover will not be the sufferer as the book contains all the lectures including the one that Mr Tompkins skipped. Science couldn't have been explained in more simpler terms! It is humorous, the tone is humble, the content is just magnificent. With the illustration by the author himself, as the regular illustrator abandons his post, the appeal of the volume seems to increase more as the author seems to keep the drawings, some of them, adapted from originals, as perfect as possible.