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Why is the expansion of our Universe accelerating? Twenty-five years after its discovery, this phenomenon remains one of the greatest scientific mysteries. Solving it involves testing the fundamental ...
Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity is a landmark in our understanding of the universe. It gave rise to the notion of a spacetime continuum against which all physical phenomena play out.
Ever since Einstein: nothing is faster than light. In 2011, an experiment at CERN seemed to prove the opposite - until the ...
For 90 years, physicists have tried to solve the equations that constitute Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity — the concept that matter, space and time are intertwined. But some of ...
For decades, one of the biggest questions in cosmology has remained frustratingly out of reach: what, if anything, existed ...
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 ...
From Quanta Magazine (find original story here). In November 1915, in a lecture before the Prussian Academy of Sciences, Albert Einstein described an idea that upended humanity’s view of the universe.