Ideas Whose Time Has Come: from Cosmology to Cancer

From dark energy to the Higgs boson. from cancer folklore to synthetic biology; great ideas often languish in obscurity until, decades later, they burst into relevance. World renowned physicist and best-selling author Professor Paul Davies shares some of the more exciting and significant examples that are revolutionizing science today, and asks: what else lies in the dusty storehouse of human ideas that may yet transform our future?