The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity

A discussion exploring Pedro Ferreira's book Pedro Ferreira
(Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford) discusses his
book 'The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over
General Relativity' with Harvey Brown (Professor of Philosophy of
Physics, University of Oxford), Alex Butterworth (Historian and
Author of The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers,
Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents) and Javier Lezaun (James
Martin Lecturer in Science and Technology Governance, University of
Oxford). Chaired by Xenia de la Ossa (Reader in Mathematics,
University of Oxford). The book is the first complete popular
history of the theory of general relativity, showing how it has
informed our understanding of exactly what the universe is made of
and how much is still undiscovered: from the work of the giant
telescopes in the deserts of Chile to our newest ideas about black
holes and the Large Hadron Collider deep under French and Swiss
soil.