Inner Space, Outer Space, and the Time Before Time

Lederman begins by talking about how most people don't enjoy or learn anything from from science books because they aren't engaging enough for the reader. He says that none of the scientists have the writing ability of Percy Bysshe Shelley or Lord Byron that enables them to help the reader have a good time while they read. Its hard to make a science book fun. You have to be interested in the subject of the book if you want to stay awake while reading it, and Lederman realizes this (although, Shelley approved of Frankenstein, and that was a sleeper). He used a lot of jokes in his writing (no matter how nerdy they were, they were still funny) which made me enjoy the book even more. In the closing chapter, he writes about how a Nobel Prize isn't really seen as a significant accomplishment by the general public. Nobody seems to care. The topics brought up in this chapter are more to spark the mind to want to read more science books I think. They are a little off topic and a lot more far fetched. String Theory, Supersymmerty, Dark matter, GUTs. All still very interesting, but very likely a lot harder to comprehend. He ends with a goodbye. He thanks you for taking a journey through the ages with him. From Miletus, to Waxahachie. And leaves you with a final thought. A thought for the road. Could this be the end of Physics? If we find the God Particle, will we know everything?