Ring of Fire – The Chronicles of Eddington and Chandrashekar

Synopsis:

In the winter of 1935, the Royal Astronomical Society became the stage for one of the most dramatic confrontations in the history of stellar astrophysics. At its centre stood two brilliant minds — Sir Arthur Eddington, the most influential astronomer of his age, and the young prodigy Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, whose revolutionary ideas would one day reshape our understanding of the stars.

Ring of Fire – The Chronicles of Eddington and Chandrasekhar takes you inside this extraordinary scientific clash: a battle of intellect, ego, culture, and conviction. We’ll explore the origins of their disagreement, the explosive meeting where theory met authority, and the long shadow the dispute cast over both men’s careers.

From the decks of a ship crossing the Indian Ocean to the lecture halls of Cambridge… from the mathematics of collapsing stars to the human drama of ambition and resistance… this talk reveals how a single scientific argument…