Showing posts with label The Perfect Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Perfect Theory. Show all posts

Friday, March 21, 2014

Why General Relativity still matters

We all know the equation E=MC2. We’ve all read about Einstein's theory of general relativity. But how many of us know what it means, how it came to be and how relevant it might be today, one-hundred years after it was put forth.

Much has been written about Einstein, but Pedro Ferreira in The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity gives us a real biography of general relativity and explains why we should still care.

My conversation with Pedro Ferreira:




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