From smashing particles together to analyzing the properties of a supermassive black hole, much of physics research takes place far beyond the realm of our everyday experience. However, there is one ...

Albert Einstein is unquestionably one of the greatest scientists to ever live. He’s responsible for likely the most well-known equation of all time, and decades after his death, his work is still a ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=uu7jA8EHi_0] Understanding relativity is hard but playing games is easy. What’s a physicist to do ...

I HAVE read with great interest the leading article on “The Understanding of Relativity”, contributed by H. D. to NATURE of Nov. 3. I do not doubt Einstein's' work. His conclusions have been tested ...

Relativity and quantum mechanics rank among the greatest achievements of 20th-century science, constituting the sum of all fundamental physical knowledge. The former describes the world of the very ...

A straightforward math tweak could bring tachyon fields into line with the rest of physics. Tachyons are faster-than-light particles, and tachyon fields are special cases of quantum field. The math ...

Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity completely overturned our understanding of the nature of gravity, space and time.

The mysteries surrounding the origins of the universe have long intrigued scientists and philosophers alike. New research, published in the Living Reviews in Relativity, introduces an innovative ...