A groundbreaking collaboration between Los Alamos scientists and Duke University has resurrected a nearly forgotten 1938 ...

Quantum mechanics has a reputation that precedes it. Virtually everyone who has bumped up against the quantum realm, whether ...

Orthodox quantum mechanics is empirically flawless, but founded on an awkward interface between quantum systems and classical ...

For European Union Ambassador Herve Delphin, his nearly two-year stay in the national capital has been a bouquet of pleasant ...

Relativity; the special and general theory by Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Lawson, Robert W., tr Publication date 1920 Topics Relativity (Physics) Publisher New York, H. Holt and company Collection ...

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The slower growth of gravitational wells and the accelerating expansion might share the same underlying cause.” In so many ...

Albert Einstein might be the daddy of all eggheads. But as his famous theory of special relativity turns 120, we tip our hats ...

The idea of a particle that races faster than light has long fascinated physicists. Known as the tachyon, it was originally ...

From four-dimensional hexagons to the mind-bending amplituhedron, geometrical shapes are wilder than we learn at school - and ...

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics.

The seven articles in this special section represent a portion of the research that has been carried out under the umbrella of "Shallow Water Experiment (SW06)" off the coast of New Jersey.