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神秘的粒子物理大作业 （2013-2014年/春季学期） 姓名：陈士荣 学号所属专业（学院）：机自学院 课程号：0100L305 代课老师：张爱林 The New World of Mr Tompkins George Gamow’s classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback fully revised and updated by Russell Stannard 1—City?Speed?Limit It?was?a?public?holiday,?and?Mr?Tompkins,?a?little?clerk?of?a?big?city?bank,?sleptlate?and?had?a?leisurely?breakfast.?Trying?to?plan?his?day,?he?first?thought?about?going?to?an?afternoon?movie.?Opening?the?local?newspaper,?he?turned?to?the?entertainment?page.?But?none?of?the?films?appealed?to?him.?He?detested?the?current?obsession?with?sex?and?violence.?As?for?the?rest,?it?was?the?usual?holiday?fare?aimed?at?children.?If?only?there?were?at?least?one?film?with?some?real?adventure,?with?something?unusual?and?maybe?challenging?about?it.?But?there?was?none. Unexpectedly,?his?eye?fell?on?a?little?notice?in?the?corner?of?the?page.?The?towns?university?was?announcing?a?series?of?lectures?on?the?problems?of?modern?physics.?This?afternoons?lecture?was?to?be?about?Einsteins?Theory?of?Relativity.?Well,?that?might?be?something!?He?had?often?heard?the?statement?thatonly?a?dozen?people?in?the?world?reallyunderstood?Einsteins?theory.?Maybe?hecould?become?the?thirteenth!?He?decided?to?go?to?the?lecture??it?might?be?just?what?he?needed. Arriving?at?the?big?university?auditorium,?he?found?the?lecture?had?already?begun.?Theroom?was?full?of?young?students.?But?there?was?a?sprinkling?of?older?people?there?as?well,?presumably?members?of?the?public?like?himself.?They?were?listening?with?keen?attention?to?a?tall,?white-bearded?man?standing?alongside?an?overhead?projector.?He?was?explaining?to?his?audience?the?basic?ideas?of?the?Theory?of?Relativity. Mr?Tompkins?got?as?far?as?understanding?that?the?whole?point?of?Einsteins?theory?is?that?there?is?a?maximum?velocity,?the?velocity?of light,?which?cannot?be?exceeded?by?any?moving?material?object.?This?fact?leads?to?very?strange?and?unusual?consequences.?For?example,?when?moving?close?tothe?velocity?