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 ...

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 ...

In this video, we explore Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, focusing on his insights into gravity and acceleration. Initially ridiculed, Einstein developed key concepts after observing a ...

Yesterday, I wrote about the core concepts needed to understand quantum physics, which is one of the two pillars of modern physics. The other, of course, is the theory of relativity, the full and ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Bob Somerby is reading Walter Isaacson’s biography of Albert Einstein, which he calls ...

Michael J. I. Brown receives research funding from the Australian Research Council and Monash University, and has developed space-related titles for Monash University's MWorld educational app.

Everyone knows Albert Einstein was a genius, but can you explain what he’s famous for? Arguably his foremost theory, his general theory of relativity, turns 100 years old this week. It was actually ...

Einstein’s general theory of relativity can be summed up in just 12 words: “Space-time tells matter how to move; matter tells space-time how to curve”. But this short description from the physicist ...

It stands among the most famous theories ever created, but the general theory of relativity did not spring into being with a single, astonishing paper like the special theory of relativity in 1905.

This work was undertaken through an STFC studentship grant at the University of Salford. Graham S McDonald and Tim Hodgkinson does not work for, consult to, own shares in any company or organisation ...