Einstein’s famous tenet of special relativity — that time slows down on a moving clock — has been verified 10 times more precisely than ever before. The result comes from physicists in Germany and ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Strangely, although we feel as if we sweep through time on the knife-edge between the fixed past and the open future, that edge—the present—appears nowhere in the existing laws of physics. In Albert ...

Denizens of Elizabethan England dismissed a short-lived sensation as a “nine days’ wonder.” Andy Warhol spoke of fame lasting mere 15 minutes. These days, a reality-TV star would be lucky to light up ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Robert Lawrence Kuhn is the creator, writer and host of "Closer To Truth," a public television ...

The passage of time is fundamental to the theory of relativity: how you realize it, how you calculate it, and what influences it,” said Bijunath Patla, a physicist at the National Institute of ...

Is it time to begin to review Einstein’s relativity theory? originally appeared on Quora: the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity has held up pretty well after a century out in the ...

In his 1986 book, Was Einstein Right? Prof. Clifford Will, physics, Washington University in St. Louis, declared anyone who questioned Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity to be a crank or ...

TIME marches on, rushing through the seasons, dashing through the rain, plowing through the mist, blowing through the summer. I went to bed sometime around 1972 and awoke to 2006. Where did all my ...