What Einstein Got Wrong

How Einstein's powerful intuition led him astray in several key areas of physics, which are now among the most fruitful areas of the discipline; looking at what he got right, starting with his special theory of relativity.

Einstein's general theory of relativity, which built on special relativity and led to a radically new understanding of the geometry of space and time; the rocky road Einstein followed to this breakthrough; the mistakes that hampered his progress.

Einstein's rejection of the most astounding prediction of general relativity; how the concept of black holes emerged from Einstein's theory and how he dismissed it, even as other researchers examined the theoretical properties of these objects.

Einstein's reluctance to accept the idea that general relativity predicts that objects with mass radiate extremely faint gravitational waves when they interact; the evidence accumulated after Einstein's death of the existence of gravity waves.

Investigating what Einstein reportedly called his biggest blunder, which is his insistence that the universe is static; why general relativity is inconsistent with a static universe; Edwin Hubble's pioneering observations of the cosmos.

Einstein's attempt to make general relativity compatible with a static universe by adding a cosmological constant to his equations; how this mistake looks prescient in light of the discovery that the expansion of the universe is accelerating.