Addressing a controversy first raised around 1910, two physicists have performed experiments with the aid of an engineer that validate anew the special theory of relativity’s limitations on the speed ...

Physicists have proven a 100-year-old prediction of relativity by showing that Einstein's equivalence principle holds at quantum scales.

Albert Einstein, one of the most celebrated modern scientists, proposed the revolutionary theory of special relativity more than a century ago. This theory forms the basis of most of what we ...

Time and Space Begin to Break DownIn 1905, a 26-year-old unknown technician working at the Swiss Patent Office sent a series of revolutionary papers to a German academic journal.This was Albert ...

Quantum mechanics and Einstein's general relativity explain how the Universe works at the tiniest and largest scales, ...

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world” -- Albert Einstein.What is more important – What ...

Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius and groundbreaking ideas, often immediately linked to his theories of relativity. Yet, when the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to him, it was not for ...