A little while ago, we talked about the concept of timezones and the Moon. It’s a complicated issue, because on Earth, time ...

Einstein’s special relativity, which he formulated in his “miracle year” of 1905, was a theory that revolutionised our ideas of space and time – and ultimately paved the way for some even ...

There is probably an unbelievably long list of the challenges that human astronauts would face in the event of a manned ...

Einstein first described his general theory of relativity. This theory had a profound effect on physics and our understanding ...

Einstein's theories of special relativity and general relativity form a core part of today's undergraduate (or Masters-level) physics curriculum. This is a supplementary problem book or student's ...

Special relativity is, in fact, the theory that led to the formulation of general relativity in the first place. Yet, despite ...

One of the fundamental tenets of Einstein’s special theory of relativity is that the laws of physics are the same regardless of your vantage point. New research suggests a way to probe for cracks in ...

Einstein received the Nobel Prize for one of the other ideas, but the special theory of relativity has since become the most well-known, perhaps of his career or even the entire field of physics!

Einstein’s special theory of relativity, published a hundred years ago, also revealed that energy and mass are two sides of the same coin, forever linked in his famed equation E = mc2.

After hours, he creates the special theory of relativity, in which he demonstrates that measurements of time and distance vary systematically as anything moves relative to anything else.

This Element presents the philosophy of special relativity, from the foundations of the theory in Newtonian mechanics, through its birth out of the ashes of nineteenth-century ether theory, through ...

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