Fun grip on the cover of the paperback edition - that of the paperback edition was not bad either. We enjoy reading a theoretical physics book written not by an extension agent, but by a genuine scientist capable of being understood by the general public (more or less according to the chapters). Lee Smolin, making the history of physics, notes: "In 1981, physics could celebrate two hundred years of explosive growth [...] And then in the early 1980s, everything stopped." (pp. 14-15), primarily attributable to the fault of string theory. This state of depressing - even tragic - inspired to author a large trial (550 pages) running, so to speak, three things at once, presented in 4th cover: "Lee Smolin, renowned physicist, told both the promise of the theory [cords, broken promises in his view] and the excesses to which she led [arrogant domination of a new paradigm Official], without omitting some recipes for that science does not fall into such rut. "
Note that the book was written before the commissioning of the LHC and the (probable) evidence of the Higgs boson.