For over 100 years, two theories have shaped our understanding of the universe: quantum mechanics and Einstein’s general relativity. One explains the tiny world of particles; the other describes ...

What if the Big Bang didn't begin with a singularity? This point of infinite density, which so divides physicists, could be ...

Max Talmey, a friend of Albert Einstein’s during his school years, has just published a book to which Professor Einstein has given special commendation because of the lucid manner in which the author ...

Wolfson, a physics professor at Middlebury College, takes the fear out of Einstein's relativity theory in this brisk piece of pop science. The author uses a tennis game on Venus and a cup of hot tea ...

Before Einstein, physics looked almost finished. The universe seemed to behave like an excellent Swiss railway timetable. Matter moved. Forces acted. Time ticked away in the background like a reliable ...

Einstein wasn’t thinking about invariance or symmetry when he wrote his first relativity papers in 1905, but historians speculate that his isolation from the physics community during his employment in ...

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