George Gamow wrote a wonderful series of short stories about Mr. Tompkins, an Everyman who kept finding himself in (dream-?) situations where one or another of the laws of physics was magnified in such a way as to make its effects apparent/visible on the scales ordinary humans interact on. Quantum mechanics, relativity, etc. They were meant to be educational stories to help ease folks into thinking about various parts of physics in non-painful ways, I think.
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George Gamow wrote a wonderful series of short stories about Mr. Tompkins, an Everyman who kept finding himself in (dream-?) situations where one or another of the laws of physics was magnified in such a way as to make its effects apparent/visible on the scales ordinary humans interact on. Quantum mechanics, relativity, etc. They were meant to be educational stories to help ease folks into thinking about various parts of physics in non-painful ways, I think.
--Dave