Podcasts that mention 📚 Mr. Tompkins in paperback by George Gamow

Now that being said, there's a book series called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland written by a physicist, George Gamow, a mid-20th-century physicist; brilliant!

In the podcast, Neil deGrasse Tyson references the book series 'Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland' authored by physicist George Gamow, highlighting its exploration of imaginative scenarios in physics.

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I'm reminded of the charming illustrated book series by George Gamow, Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, or something, and what he would do is—he's a business, famous business is mid-20th century. Okay, lived only just died only 20 years ago or so, but he, yeah, George Gamow, he was one of the original predictors of the temperature of the universe. Yeah, if the universe began as a explosion with the big bang, could you measure that?

Neil deGrasse Tyson recalls the illustrated book series by George Gamow titled 'Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland.' He refers to it as a charming work that explores entertaining hypothetical scenarios related to physical constants, illustrating how such changes could have implications for our understanding of the universe and connecting it to quantum physics.

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Where he changed the values of the constants. - Oh you mean "Mr. Tompkins Wonderland." - Yeah, "Mr. Tompkins Wonderland."

Brian Greene and Neil deGrasse Tyson discuss this series of books by George Gamow as an early example of imagining universes with different physical constants.

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Written by George Gamow. So George Gamow wrote a series--

George Gamow is identified as the author of the 'Tompkins in Wonderland series'.

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