Why can't anything travel faster than the speed of light? Do black holes really suck? And why is the universe expanding? These are just a few of the questions author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett ...
This temporal lag is a direct consequence of Albert Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity. The rule is simple: the weaker ...
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In 1919, a total solar eclipse offered the only chance to test Albert Einstein's radical new theory of gravity, General ...
Though there is an overwhelming amount of information floating around out there about the theory of relativity in all her guises, I was stumped last week when my eight year old nephew asked me to ...
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 ...
A new study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam shows how gravitational waves from black holes can be used to ...
New impressions A visualization of a curved space–time “sea” from the general-relativity simulations carried out by the authors.(Courtesy: James Mertens) From the Genesis story in the Old Testament to ...
I. IN continuation of my article in the Relativity Number of NATURE (vol. cvi., p. 795, Feb ruary 17, 1921), I propose to discuss more fully, and to express as clearly and simply as possible, some of ...