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 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.