Tag: einstein

April 2, 2021

Black holes have firmly moved from the status of theoretical curiosity to physical reality. We follow that transformation and the ...

What is Mass-Energy Equivalence (E=mc^2): the most famous formula in science

March 26, 2021

The mass-energy equivalence is the crown jewel of special relativity, explaining the phenomena that power the stars, our homes, and ...

What is Special Relativity: A Guide to Spacetime, Time Dilation and Length Contraction

Einstein's theory of special relativity would revolutionise the field of physics upon its introduction. This is the first part of ...

Time Travel Without the Paradoxes

Join ZME Science in its carefully non-copyright infringing time machine with your sidekick ‘Marty’ to see if time travel paradoxes ...

AI uses Einstein’s special relativity to predict future events

Researchers used 'light cones' to draw boundaries and make AIs more human-like in predicting events in the future.

The Cosmological Constant. Einstein's 'greatest blunder' is an expanding problem

The Cosmological Constant: How Einstein’s ‘greatest blunder’ became an expanding problem

March 27, 2020

The Universe is expanding, of that much cosmologists are sure. But the question of what rate at which that expansion ...

Hard work, not genius, is what should inspire the next generation of scientists

March 13, 2020

Winners are made with hard work and perseverance, not just talent.

Mindbending ‘Spooky Action at a Distance’ experiment involving 100,000 gamers proves Einstein wrong

May 10, 2018

Quantum mechanics -- how does it work?!

Einstein's two notes on living a quiet and modest life sold for $1.8 million combined. Credit: Barath Tripard/Twitter.

Einstein tipped a Japanese bellboy with notes on living a happy life. They’ve now sold for $1.8 million

October 25, 2017

It's rather ironic and one can only wonder what Einstein would say about all of this.

Two merging neutron stars were detected on Aug. 17 in the galaxy NGC 4993m about 130 million light-years from Earth. Credit: NASA.

Why the gravitational waves splashed by the merger of two dying stars spells a revolution in astronomy

May 28, 2021

This was an amazing week in science -- with much more to come.

Another Einstein predication is confirmed by scientists: gravitational lensing measures star’s mass for the 1st time

June 8, 2017

Einstein -- right again!

How Albert Einstein broke the Periodic Table

by Rich Feldenberg

February 8, 2016

In a study published in the January 19, 2016 issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), scientists ...

Dropping weights in space to test Einstein’s general relativity

March 9, 2015

Extraordinaire experimental physicist Galileo Galilei allegedly climbed hundreds of step to reach the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa's ...

Book review: “Einstein Relatively Simple: Our Universe Revealed”

February 12, 2015

A great explanation of Einstein's theory of relativity for laymen.

The history of physics in a short, neat animation

by Mihai Andrei

September 3, 2013

Physics is a branch of science that interestingly enough developed out of philosophy, and was thus referred to as natural ...

three-dimensional (right) graph shows the relationship between three different velocities: v, u and U, where v is the velocity of a second observer measured by a first observer, u is the velocity of a moving particle measured by the second observer, and U is the relative velocity of the particle to the first observer. (c) Hill, Cox

After extending Einstein’s theory of relativity to greater than light velocities, the laws of physics alter

three-dimensional (right) graph shows the relationship between three different velocities: v, u and U, where v ...

This digitized image made from a screen shot of a new iPad app, provided Sept. 24, 2012 by the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago.

Einstein’s brain: now available on iPad