michaelmarshall 's review for:

The Perfect Theory: A Century of Geniuses and the Battle over General Relativity by Pedro G. Ferreira

4.0

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A lively and clear history of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, from its origins to the use of it to predict and describe black holes, the mapping of the universe’s large-scale structure, and attempts to marry it with quantum mechanics. It’s let down slightly by a rather weak concluding discussion about what lies beyond general relativity, which is necessarily open-ended but is sometimes vague. The majority of the book is very solid though!