Reviews for Lucifer's legacy

The average rating for Lucifer's legacy based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-02-08 00:00:00 Robert Riv The title is misleading. I was looking for a book that would explore the topic of asymmetry and this book barely touches upon it. Instead, it gives an account of some of the main events to have occurred in the history of physics, especially from those involving electricity, cathode rays and the discovery of atomic and subatomic structure to the modern particle-collider facilities (like CERN) and antimatter. It does a decent job of explaining physics in layman's term although some of this will feel redundant and cause impatience to anyone with the high school physics education or beyond. The presentation is also noticeably jumbled. Events are unnecessarily repeated and the focus jumps back and forth in a chaotic way (perhaps the closest thing to asymmetry contained in the book).

Review # 2 was written on 2017-06-08 00:00:00 Nick Ali Sounded like a super cool idea, but it turned out to be basically "Atoms 101" and kinda boring, especially since it's not really about asymmetry as we know it in daily life. It's interesting to know that handedness and asymmetry probably originated at the beginning of the universe, especially because of the religious association between god and symmetry, but that could've been accomplished with an essay.