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 ...

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 ...

"The key result is that while many alternatives look very similar to the 'standard' black hole at today's image quality, the ...

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 ...

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein reviews Black Hole: How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved by Marcia Bartusiak (CC BY-SA Alain r) While there have been ...

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 ...

Question: I read a brief history of time by hawking and I am interested to know why Einstein’s theory of relativity and quantum physics can’t come together to come up with a theory of everything?” ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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