Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

The search for quantum gravity is the next big step in physics, as researchers seek to unify the physics of the very small ...

At the turn of the century, it sounded as if string theory could give us big answers about the universe. Well… has it?

Einstein’s theory of relativity reveals that time is not fixed — it bends, stretches, and slows depending on speed and ...

Einstein was right: artist's impression of a neutron-star merger. (Courtesy: NASA) Multimessenger observations of neutron stars have been used by astrophysicists in the US to put Einstein’s general ...

Gravitational physics has become a truly experimental science as tests of the special and general theories of relativity reach new levels of precision Right on time When I was a first-term graduate ...

In 1980, Stephen Hawking gave his first lecture as Lucasian Professor at the University of Cambridge. The lecture was called ...

In physics, Albert Einstein is famous for two things: developing the theory of relativity, and hating quantum mechanics. Relativity is a colossal achievement, with the special theory of 1905 putting ...

For over a century, scientists have been intrigued to decode the perplexing scenery behind contemporary physics. It's been up for many years, and yet the experts still have no idea how to bridge the ...

First of all, the prevailing quantum theory, quantum field theory, is fully relativistic from the onset. Relativity is “built into” the theory, so to speak. And it’s the only quantum theory that is ...

THE preoccupation of philosophers with relativity, to the exclusion of all other branches of science, is very puzzling to a physicist; but most puzzling of all is their continual assertion that ...

In his discussion of accelerated motion on page 60 of "The Meaning of Relativity," Albert Einstein made an approximation that allowed him to develop the theory of relativity further. Einstein ...