A UA professor is challenging Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity and questioning whether it holds up in all areas of space. Andrei Lebed, a physics professor at the UA, has proposed an ...

The breakthrough could suggest a way to study 'quantum gravity,' the missing link between quantum physics and Einstein's general relativity in the lab. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

1. Black Hole Jets: Dr. Jeong's research provides a comprehensive explanation for the powerful jets emitted by black holes. By utilizing the second-order term in linearized general relativity, he has ...

Let the battle begin, Newton Vs Einstein. The all out battle for space-time. Both Albert Einstein and Sir Issac Newton are regarded as the forefathers of physics, but both held different theories that ...

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 ...

Yang Zhenning (楊振寧), 103 years old, a Nobel laureate in Physics, professor at Tsinghua University in China, and Academician ...

HERE are four more books on relativity, ranging from the highly popular and amusingly written booklet of Dr. Heyl to the extremely technical and ponderous representation of the theory in ...

Albert Einstein is arguably the most influential scientist of the 20th century. His general theory of relativity changed our understanding of space and time, becoming one of the two pillars of modern ...

Special relativity is beyond weird. Among its many statements are that moving clocks run slow and that moving rulers shrink. But how are we supposed to make sense of this? When you purchase through ...

College professors these days face an ever-higher bar to grab the attention of their students, forced to compete with the stimuli of smartphones and laptops in large lecture halls. But when your ...

Before 1919, cosmology was as subjective as art criticism. A solar eclipse, and a patent clerk’s equations, changed everything. By Siobhan Roberts PRINCETON, N.J. — A century ago, on May 29, 1919, the ...